speak!

today is one of those days remind you that spring is on its way. it’s sort of cloudy and cold–typically february–but the morning was ushered in with the singing of birds. what kind, i don’t know. i’m not a birder, but it sort of made me want to find out. for about five seconds. then […]

these days…

christmas in retrospect

our living room has somehow exploded into a mess of primary colors: blue, red, mainly yellow have intruded upon our subtle tones of green and brown (it sounds uglier than it is, believe me). it’s all seba’s fault. not really. it’s all his grandparents’ fault. here are some pictures of seb on christmas day… first […]

for all good things must come to an end

the christmas tree has exited the house. i might say, “finally.” last week when temps were in the 60s and it felt more like may than january, i began thinking that the tree had filled its full christmas potential. the lights just weren’t doing it for me anymore, and the tree was better defined as […]

the blackest month of all the year…

is the month of janveer. that’s january folks. and if you live in pittsburgh, pa, you know what i mean. it has been cloudy for two weeks straight, and it’s starting to make me weary. the brightest it has been seems like dusk to me, with the charcoal clouds hanging low. and winter is just […]

…all is calm, all is bright…

these days i get a nosefull of the orange-piney goodness of our douglas fir christmas tree when i walk in our front door. the smell takes me back to days-gone-by of my childhood: we always had a real tree for christmas. i don’t recall that we ever, as a family, went so far as cutting […]

happy 18 months, seba

today, in the wee hours of the morning, a deep hacking cough coming from seb’s room, seb’s crib, seb’s mouth woke me up with a start. i sat up and exited my warm flannel sheets, quilt and down comforter, my bare legs momentarily covered with goose bumps from the chilliness of our nighttime house. i […]

a mom’s thoughts on climbing

so a little more talk about our trip to the new last week… let me back up a bit. brian and i had convinced ourselves (well, i know i had, and it seemed to me that brian had too) when seb was all brand new and shiny that climbing routes with ropes and gear and […]

randomness and seb’s first “new” trip

silliness bettiness most of these pics are from hawks nest at the new river gorge. we didn’t have as many photo ops the other days, and friend kathleen was photo-happy since she wasn’t climbing the rest of the day…

slacker mom

at least in the weblog sense… i’ve been so busy writing essays for class (wahoo!) that i have neglected my narrative of seb-happenings. class has reached a crossroads into writing a long essay from now until semester-end, and i have decided to write about motherhood issues–pregnancy, childbirth–and then flesh out a bigger political issue from […]