The care and feeding of the impossibly small
The odds and sods of this and that
An accounting of my father and his resident alien
An accounting of my folly with fowl
Person rearing for amateurs
So tired. Can’t keep eyes open. Slept twelve hours last night, and took a two hour nap yesterday. I’ve heard that you get this burst of wild energy before you drop; if that’s the case, I fear I’ll be hanging onto the boy for another month.
The roads are still quite terrible, so hibernation is not a terrible way to spend the day. Must sleeeeep.
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The one that follows the final breath is more difficult to write than the piece exhaling it.
I’m not sleeping where-ever I fall any longer, like a cat passing from surface to surface anywhere there is …
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I know you all are way beyond “winners” and “losers” in the baby roulette, but I figure that I’m a person that finishes things, so here goes.
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