While trying to help her daughter escape one category, she fears being stigmatized in another way:
I am contemplating homeschooling for one of my girls who just struggles in the traditional school setting. I am a bit put off that the only homeschoolers I know are Christian and conservative which I am not.
This one took me back to my college days. My first girlfriend could crack just about every joint in her body. I was sufficiently smitten that I found it attractive. Anyway:
I crack a lot. And by crack I mean my joints. My knuckles, my wrists, my elbows, my neck, my back, my toes, my ankles, [...]
I faintly remember a concussion when I was a kid. This is a bit more serious:
When I was about 5 years old, I got ran over by a UPS truck and was put in a bodycast. I don’t remember a lot of it, but some of it, like riding to the hospital in my neighbors [...]
Not a moment that I’ve ever exactly had, but amusing nonetheless:
He still keeps the rose a famous Italian soprano gave him from her bouquet when he had a snapshot taken with her after watching an opera in Hamburg. He wanted the underwear of the yummy, beefy, hunky Tenor as a souvenir, but that would’ve been [...]
And what have you accomplished lately?
I have learned to never assume what people are thinking when they stare. One time a couple was staring at Mikey in the mall and I thought they were appauled by him. I found out through the grapevine a few weeks later that they had just found out [...]
Seriously. Do it now.
When the child psychologist confirmed that Matthew was developmentally delayed, I thought that meant he could catch up. I really did.
Here’s a Random Thing about how sometimes life is a circle:
I only got my nose pierced because I thought it would distance me from my Indian heritage, until I realized that it makes me look more Indian, and now I embrace that.
Heartbreaking? Admirable? Sad?
Since late 2005 I have been pregnant for 96 weeks (24 months) and have only given one live birth.
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