Yes, I do refer to myself as a cripple occasionally. Although that’s only when I am being reminded by my MS that I’m not normal anymore. Nothing brings that home more than a trip to Costco.
I used to love shopping at warehouse clubs. I mean, if you’re a true blue shopper, how can you not […]

Dawn writes about how you can handle that most thorny of problems in blogging: how specific should you be when writing about people you know?
The way I look at it, I won’t write anything about George, for instance, that I wouldn’t tell our neighbor. I think you have to assume that one way or another, […]

We’re going to the opening of the Grossology exhibit at the Lawrence Hall of Science tonight. Yesterday, in an effort to explain to Lawrence what it was about, I said, “You know, it’s all about gross stuff in your body, like all the snot that’s been coming out of your nose this week” (we’ve all […]

I finally figured out why I’ve been at loose ends this week, Lawrence’s first at preschool. Even though he clearly loves it, I feel guilty. He’s having a great time and hates to leave every day, but I still feel like I should be taking care of him and not passing the responsibility to other […]

Lawrence started preschool this week. All day, five days a week. This is what I’ve been waiting for, right? I can go back to work full-time. I can talk to grownups. I’ll have time to put on makeup in the morning and actually attend to grooming like plucking my eyebrows and flossing my teeth. I […]

That little incident last night (see below) brought home to me again how my Multiple Sclerosis doesn’t allow for a whole lot of stress to be put on my body without consequences.
After we found Lawrence, it took me a while to stop hyperventilating, and a couple of hours for the adrenaline to leave my body. […]

We thought we had lost Lawrence last night. We put him to bed and he was taking forever to go to sleep. Sometime after 8:00 I went into his room to sternly tell him to go to sleep, only to find that his bed was empty. I assumed that he was either hiding or getting […]

“No element of Lincoln’s character,” declared his colleague Henry Whitney, “was so marked, obvious and ingrained as his mysterious and profound melancholy.”
I’ve been reading Joshua Wolf Shenk’s absorbing book on Abraham Lincoln’s depression entitled Lincoln’s Melancholy. I’m not sure how many people know that Lincoln suffered from lifelong depression (it was essentially dismissed by an […]

Yesterday I started doing my yoga again. I know it’s hard to believe, but with a couple of Websites, a 3-year-old son, multiple sclerosis, laundry, housework and countless other responsibilities, I actually have trouble finding time to do it, which is a really big mistake as far as my overall health is concerned. We’ve been […]

We had a really nice Christmas. Very mellow. I got a Lantern Moon knitting needle organizer from Mom and Dad, which thrilled me to pieces.
Lawrence had his first real Christmas with Santa and stockings and all that stuff. I made him this stocking, but it didn’t turn out exactly as I planned, I think. It […]