We were talking about last names for the baby and haven’t decided whether to hyphenate, use one of ours as a middle name, or what. Of course, there will be international travel so we want to make sure we are both identifiable as legal parents. And then it gets to my last name, which I kept from my last marriage – Dangermond. My maiden name is Namer – which is Sephardic and means Tiger. I…
I was trying to figure out what generation T is since I’m a baby boomer, but she’s not a gen X which are the youngest boomers, and so is she a Y? Meanwhile, when our baby is born most likely s/he will be a Generation O – born under Obama’s presidency – born under the introduction of hope again here in America.
Loca and I ran into one of our regular walkers this morning in the park – it was nippy cold and we were walking briskly – so was he. Even the swans were gliding at a clip in the lagoon. I said as we passed, “It’s getting colder so we have to walk faster.” He grimaced, “No, I gained ten pounds so I have to walk faster AND farther.” I responded, “Don’t you know it.”…
Waited till mid morning to take Loca to the park and the day is absolutely stunning. The little bit of fall color that goes on display here is best seen inside the park along the lagoon. I love to watch the coots chuking along the water, and the Great Egret, the immature Cormorants sitting up in the tree, the lonely rail, the moorhens, the mallards all seem to have found paradise, just like me. The…
For all of us who always thought we would get pregnant at some point, the question is always when is the best time to have a baby? Since I waited till I was 40 years old to try, I feel like marching into colleges across the country and talking to women about the notion of them having it all – it just ain’t so. If you want to have your own child, you cannot wait…
Monday night look up into the night sky and behold a rare wonder – a crescent moon and two bright shining stars that are actually Venus and Jupiter.
Deep sorrow for the families who lost a loved one in Mumbai during this horrible tragedy. Here, Abby is still missed. You pick up the pieces and you move on. Right? The bells of Cabrini are ringing and so it is time to shut down and enjoy Saturday night. As Flower always tells me, hope dies last.
If anyone wants to know – we’re ready. Good friends who think they have something to tell us that we might not already know have told us that a child is going to change our life. Really, we say, trying to be considerate but thinking to ourselves, why, we never thought of that. We have gone over and over and over in our minds the pros and cons of being a parent and the one…
I got irked recently when my mother turned at the table and said, “I know you, Rachel.” She had just said I am easily repulsed. Which I don’t believe I am. “I know you,” she said, as if to imply, better than you know yourself. Since T had the fur covered peach slice incident at the ready, it was easy to concur. But honestly, one or two incidents does not make a label. In a…