Pre-blog Musings
These are letters to my baby girl from prior to the start of the blog.
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One Tough Cookie
Hello Baby Girl, Right now, you are walking around the dining room with the battery-operated nail file. You love that thing. I was using it to file my nails and…
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Dreamy Sleep and Your Favorite Books
Hello Sweet Ayla, You’re off to bed now. Papa is laying beside you until you fall asleep. You won’t sleep without someone next to you. That’s how you have fallen…
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Narcissism, Education, Music and Love
Sweet Ayla, Hello Baby Girl. How are you, my Dove? Right now, I’m sitting at the little square glass breakfast table and you are crawling on the kitchen tile around…
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Don’t Look Into Your Neighbor’s Bowl…and Other Ways You Design Your Life
Hello Sweet Girl, I have been reading “Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy” by Judd Apatow. It’s been…somewhat of a soul-searching experience. The conversations in the book…
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Attachment to Mama
I did not finish this letter last night as Uncle Cliff called. We chatted for a while, and then you woke up. After I left your room again, once you…
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The Most Precious Part of You
Hello Baby Girl, It is nearly 4pm right now and I am sitting on my bed with the keyboard in my lap and the laptop on a stack of books…
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8-Months
Dear Baby Girl, Hello, Sweet Ayla. How are you little Dove? Today is your 8-month celebration! It is presently 0849 and I can hear you in your room next door…
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Your First Flight
Good morning Baby Girl, You are sitting next to me in your bouncy chair at the breakfast table. I just finished eating a bowl of cereal (simply granola, oats, honey…
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Six Airplanes
Good morning Sweet Ayla, It’s 0630 and I’m steeping a cup of winter chai herbal tea (South African rooibos and exotic chai spices). I can hear the rain outside. Otherwise,…