Fiction, Essay, Photography … Sometimes Vampires
It's spring break, as in: spring took a break and went back underground. It's barely above freezing and I cannot remember the last time I saw blue sky. This week, the March wind was so strong it knocked over my Front Yard T-Rex, about which children and their parents shout out to me, saying how… Continue reading I AM ALIVE EVEN THROUGH DARK WINTER!
My life is never boring. The week began with rallying kiddos to adopt some garden beds and plant pollinator-friendly flowers. Before / After: I did pick up a nail in a tire that day. I usually take Patco commuter rail to/from work, but for special projects (like purchasing pollinator plants at a local nursery and… Continue reading Minus One Car, Plus One Baby
I am 18 days away from my due date, and according to doctors my baby is head-down, getting ready for birth. We're healthy! I'd like to tell every smug weirdo who has ever been unpleasant about my 20-year vegetarianism that my blood pressure has consistently been 120-over-80 for this pregnancy, but actually, I don't care… Continue reading Last Chance Before Life Change
How I Spent My Summer Vacation My summer was split between Being Pregnant But Not Letting People Know (too soon), and then Being Pregnant And Having People Know. At work, sometimes I hauled boxes of yoga mats around, or taught kiddos lessons in a community garden. When I didn't teach in the garden, I prepped… Continue reading Three Months of Life
I'm a little more than halfway through Shirley by Charlotte Brontë, and this week I got to a part where the narrator described the month of May 1812 in Yorkshire: The early part of that May, as we have seen, was fine, the middle was wet; but in the last week, at change of moon,… Continue reading Symmetry
Laura Eppinger 