My gardener was over the other day and he was mesmerized at Tin and our “choice” in picking a black baby. I told him he’s a brown baby, if we are being color specific. He asked us why we chose a black baby. We didn’t specify in our secular prayers a color, a gender, or even a type of baby – we set out on this long journey a decade ago when I put my…
I ran into someone today that I had a row with a while back – it was about having a child. I was in the throes of feeling like all my options had vanished and was envious of him that he still had a lot of options ahead of him that he might be squandering. We quarreled at a restaurant for reasons that were unobvious but in hindsight I realize that we both wanted the…
There is a saying in Croatia that you stepped out of bed on your left foot, it is the equivalent of saying you woke on the wrong side of the bed. Last night we went to two parties – and put Tin to sleep in a pack and play at the second, but by 11:00, we had already all turned into pumpkins so we came home and all went to bed to the sounds of…