Archives for “kids”

Dear Zoe, You are 21 months old, and it’s been awhile since I wrote one of these. It’s getting more difficult, because you have changed so much, and at the same time, you’re the same little girl you’ve always been. Your personality hasn’t changed at all, it’s just gotten larger as you learn how to [...]


On Saturday, Zoe had a busy day. It was my dad’s birthday, and there was a family get-together planned at a park in Corvallis. She spent the morning with me while Annie ran errands. Then her cousin Leilani came by with Ryan and Dad to pick up Sean. She was really excited to see Leilani. [...]


“She does not seem to be growing any less peculiar. I love this age, four, where reason and lunacy spool through kids in equal measure. Birdy’s mind is like one of those postmodern films where a giant pig makes pea soup with an eggbeater while everyone else does the hokey pokey. And the subtitles are [...]


I just remembered part of my freaky dreams last night. I was buying new boxers, and appearently I had been sized for them, because the saleswoman came out and said in snide voice “Sir, you wear size *50* underwear.” I was shocked, as that seemed rather large, and began protesting, and she went on to [...]


-or- That Chick With The Kid Following my breakup with Army Girl, I went something like a year without seeing anyone. In the meantime, I (finally) moved out of my parent’s place and moved into an apartment with an old friend on campus. I remember being pathetically lonely at this time, and being excited when [...]