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Between the white earth and the black night
Debi
I made this still-art-with-music the other day. The photo is of the adirondack chairs and wooden barrels on my front porch the last week in March. It snowed fiercely that day, but the sun came... More »
And we just keep going
Debi
Shmoo has been home from the hospital since Thursday, and she'll be staying home all week, recuperating and eating soft foods and being told, over and over, not to jump on the couch or she'll... More »
Here we go...again
Debi
Well, our health trials with Little Shmoo aren't over, though we hope this next one is easier and less dramatic than the last one. Wednesday she'll go in for a tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, and another bronchoscopy... More »
When I became a person
Debi
How many people in the foreground of this picture have valuable opinions that count? Most of you out there would likely answer "two," counting the toddler and the adult to whom she's speaking. I think,... More »
Buds in winter
Debi
My parents moved away on Friday. Of course, they moved away in many ways over the years, but this time, it feels very final. They sold their house north of Milwaukee, the house where I... More »
Reality, Toddler-Style
Debi
My Little Shmoo is getting to be a bigger Shmoo these days. Something happened to her when her hair got long enough for pigtails -- even though they can barely be classified as pigtails when... More »
Closing in on two
Debi
Can anyone else believe my Shmoo is just a month from her 2nd birthday? I have to admit, I am just now starting to believe it. There are such huge parts of me, probably deeply... More »
What do you really want?
Debi
I want good health -- physical and emotional -- for my entire family . I want to spend my entire life with True, and I want him to spend his entire life with me, up... More »
Love letters
Debi
Every year, around Doodlebug's birthday, and last year, on Little Shmoo's first birthday, I write a mother-to-daughter love letter. I write about what the year has brought to her. I write about the challenges, the... More »
Lighten up!
Debi
It's not all navel-gazing over here at our house, you know. We also sometimes take the time to do things like imagine what we'd look like if we were M&Ms... That's me. I like to... More »
children
June 2008