The walls of the buildings are colorful, the grass is a rich green, and the playground looks out onto the moody ocean and a street lined with coconut palms. The international school looks pleasant enough from the outside, but is ultimately an unknown. Just one more unknown in the mountain of unknowns looming in our […]
We’ve traded white and yellow cockatoos for leathery fruit bats, air conditioning for the occasional sea breeze, indoor church for outdoor church, restaurants for home cooking, and suitcases for closets. There are certain aspects of Cairns we sorely miss, and I briefly adorn my “going south hat” when I see the morning and evening flights […]
You quickly find things out about yourself when your shirt is dripping and your hands are sticky with the evidence of your child’s illness. I was never the girl that played house and dreamed of the day I would have kids. I never believed I would be okay with having another human’s bodily fluids all […]
There’s a video on YouTube of a young girl reacting very strongly to meeting her new sibling. I’m sure lots of people think it’s hysterical, but I found it horrible. It would be a nightmare for me. It looks like the girl and her father are at the hospital, he’s filming, and each time he […]
I learned recently during an ill-advised Google search that when women say they’ve been in labor for 48 hours it doesn’t actually mean they’ve been red-faced, sweating, cursing their husbands, and in unbearable pain for a straight 48 hours. That’s what I always assumed and it sounded horrific. But those hours encompass all of it; […]
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