excerpts from notes on my life

  • Motherhood is Hard

    It’s much talked about these days, but I still wonder if anyone outside the motherhood really understands. My cousin, Sonya, is at least 10 years older than me. I don’t remember the difference exactly, as I established her as ‘much older’ when I was a child, when even months felt like a huge difference in… Read more

  • La Fatigue

    It’s Friday night and finally everyone is in bed, myself included. Lately it’s only when I slow down that the pain arrives, which is usually at night. I am terrified that it is an indicator of something serious. Secretly, a small part of me hopes that it is, so that at least then I will… Read more

  • On Hibernation

    Hibernation seems to be a recurring theme of late. I just now, at bedtime, looked up the orange ladybug to see if it stings, to reassure my twins that the tiny clusters of them in the corners of their bedroom ceiling do not, indeed, pose a threat to them at night. Turns out that they… Read more