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Monthly Archives: January 2008

a wrenching kind of love

January 21, 2008 – 2:34 pm

Since having Matei, there are moments of every kind of emotion imaginable and there have been a few nights when I just wanted to throw my child at his father’s head and shriek something helpful like “You deal with him!” and storm off somewhere to a less complicated life. There are other moments when I [...]

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Legacy

January 17, 2008 – 3:13 pm

Suicide runs through my father’s family. Whether it’s the slow doing in of the self through alchohol or overwork, or the more explosive methods favoured by my Georgian cousins, at least once in every generation it shows itself.
Wakes up in someone. The sirensong in the blood. The yearning for oblivion. The long sleep.
On particularly bad [...]

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More agony and ecstasy

January 17, 2008 – 2:10 pm

Nina and Z looking at the baby chortling to himself in his sleep:
“What do you think he could be dreaming of that’s so amusing?”
“New ways to torment me.”
“I think it’s bosoms. GIANT BOSOMS.”
“Being perched like a maraschino cherry on top of the biggest bosom in the world.”
“Being centerstage surrounded by endless dancing spinning bosoms like [...]

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