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Here’s a photograph of Sophie from end of January. Why she’s crying, I forget. What’s left are her two tears.

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So much depends on a cup of coffee, enjoyed in a moment of quiet intent, a moment as good as a comma or semicolon. My espresso machine, which had always grumbled and hissed, developed a leak in her old age. To handle the drip, drip, drip I employed towels, hand pumps and trays just as […]

We’d been cruising south toward Tacoma. Sophie was awake in her car seat but was strangely quiet. I turned around and—-whoa! “Pull over! Pull over!” We stopped. Luna got to Sophie first. I grabbed the camera. Cars hurtled behind my back at highway speed.

Sophie’s lips and hands were a red, smeary mess! We’d given her […]

Sophie’s one today. We regaled her this morning with “Happy Birthday!” as she sat up in bed and smiled like a scamp. She was amiable at breakfast, too, a big surprise to me because she gets fussy at the sight of solids these days (to get her to eat, Luna and I have resorted to […]

I’m sick again. I’m weak, congested and sneezy; a Theraflu cocktail sounds delicious right about now. This upper-respiratory crap has hit me twice already. This third time had better be the last. What a terrible winter it’s been.

Sophie’s just getting over a week-long bout of diarrhea (her first); truly adorable runny nostrils; and one feverish, […]

So, on a whim, I poked my index finger into the little one’s maw. I felt a mineral hardness on her lower mandible. Teeth! Or, a tooth! It was the bite of an erupting incisor. When I told Luna, she stopped just short of jumping for joy. For Luna the tooth explained everything: Sophie’s recently […]

I met Luna yesterday after work. She suggested we check out the happy hour at Palamino. She had a single drink, a blended margarita. It was her first drink since the beginning of her pregnancy, oh, 15 or 16 months ago. She was dizzy before it was half done. We got home and a few […]