Hannah’s actions and decisions make me sad sometimes. For long stretches I wonder how she’ll ever make it in the world. But she is also the person through whom I have had the opportunity to know true awe and pride. (You might not know that Hannah fought and won a complicated lawsuit against the Nassau County ...
COFFEE FIRST. Then breakfast. Oxygen mask goes on the grownup FIRST. THEN the child. I cannot stress this enough. If the morning starts out right, you’ve got a fighting chance. ...
As a recovering anorexic, I generally avoid scales and diets. And for the past few years, mirrors. So it was with great trepidation that I joined a gym a couple of weeks ago. I’m in there almost every day, on the cross country elliptical that is cruelly located closest to the wall mirrors AND the ...
Today I was sleeping on the couch and I NEEDED to check my blood sugar. I felt so incredibly bad and sluggish and frightened, that I needed Michael to get the machine and check it. For hours I tried to inch myself off the chair so that I would fall on the ground and he ...
This morning I heard a commotion from Jacks room that was unfamiliar to me. Here are some things I AM familiar with, by sound: glass bottles hitting the wall or floor Jack’s head banging on the “floor” of the portable crib The empty diaper wipes container, when we thoughtlessly leave it within his reach and he’s done removing ...