Abuela
Maria Dolores Martinez
1918 – 2006
We lost our Abuela last Tuesday. She died of a sudden, massive heart attack while sitting on the front porch, watering her flowers in the early morning light. She was a beautiful, elegant and graceful woman who had four children, two of whom are still living. She [...]
Traveling Pregnant
Currently, I am in Boston attending the public library association annual conference, and I am still alive, although a bit tired and sore. It is now day 3 in our trip.
So, back in October when I booked our flights for my library conference in Boston, I thought, hey, spending 8 hours flying to Raleigh, [...]
More pregnancy pics
Pregnancy from the front
And, pregnancy from the rear (Ben took this photo!)
Marti makes a blog
Of course, he tinkered for hours with the layouts and fonts and programming before he wrote anything other than “hello world,” but he swears he really, really is going to write stuff. So take a look at Critical Moss sometime and drop him a line congratulating him on living with me this long.
Foot odor bank?
The Chinese have started an body odor bank to help dogs track criminals. The Chinese “did not explain how the smells would be captured and stored,” leaving one to wonder at retrieval methods. How exactly does an odor bank help, I wonder? And who is the poor scientist that has to collect [...]
Blogging
You know, one of the great things about blogging, and about journaling in general, is that it helps you to look back and see what you were thinking a few years, months or even weeks ago. I have kept a journal since I was 10 years old — a “gift” set, which was a [...]
Lists
What I ate last night after I got home from work (at 8 p.m.):
1 triple cheeseburger from Wendy’s, with 3 patties, 1 slice of cheese and everything on it, extra pickles.
1/5 of a jar of dill pickles.
1 small frosty.
1 chicken nugget.
2 servings of Cream of Wheat with whole milk and brown sugar.
(I could be pregnant.)
What [...]
Letter to my daughter
Dear Maya,
You are not born yet. You are here, in the world, but also not quite in the world because you are still forming in my belly. I am large with you even though you haven’t quite arrived. My little girl.