just dropping in…

I don’t have much to write about right now– I’m glad to say that despite everything, I’ve been pretty happy lately. I’ve had few bouts with crying, and I’ve been able to get some work done on my dissertation– two things that I thought I’d never be able to say. And I [...]

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i’m fertile?

Tonight we had dinner with a friend of ours. Maybe not a friend, but an older colleague who we both like very much. She’s a poet. A wise woman. In the course of the evening she asked how I had been recently, and I (as is my new resolution) told [...]

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to buy or not to buy

Lately we’ve been thinking about buying a house, despite mounting evidence that it might not be a good idea. I think it’s all related to our apparent inability to have a baby. You see, after 4 miserably failed project attempts (i.e. our pregnancies), I’m feeling overripe for tackling a project where we might [...]

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or cat on a couch

Funny how after choosing the name for the blog, I never could find the right photo to use as my header. I like the name “cat on a couch” better, but what’s done is done. The cat you see on our couch above is my little bundle of fuzzy sweetness: Miss Marble. [...]

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Here I am

Well here it is, my first blog post on wordpress! I’m going to be trying my very hardest to keep this as a blog where I actually chronicle some of my thoughts. My last blog seemed a bit too Pollyanna. When I started it, I was a different person. Changed by [...]

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