a-ha moment

Went in to see the psychic chiropractor today after suffering two days of headaches in this unholy heat. (I live in the Bay Area because I don’t like heat. I like brisk cold sunny days that hover around 60 degrees.…

swim class

Took my first prenatal swim class today at the Berkeley YMCA. Me, and about 20 other women in various states of gestation paddling in a giant circle around a large, gently warmed lap pool. We resemble a school of chatty…

bad wife

Why I am a terrible wife: I woke up this morning and my husband announced that he’d had a knee in his back all night. I didn’t apologize. I said — why didn’t you do something about it? He said…

ants

2:45 p.m. We’ve given up. The ants are invading, and we’ve given up. They win. They’re trailing circles around the top of the stainless-steel butterfly step can, wending their way through the crack in the middle to the goodies inside.…