I am in a state of deep emotion. My daughter and my son-in-law have finished naming their baby. They just came into my office to tell me the news. Her full name is Ember Virginia Redwine. I am beside myself like you wouldn’t believe. You’d think no one had ever been named after anyone before. For something that happens all the time, it is an earthshaking honor. And as if it weren’t enough to have […]
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My girleens
She’s Got Rhythm
I forgot to mention one thing about the birth of Emmy. The staff monitored her heart throughout labor, so the amplified beat provided a steady backdrop to the hours and hours of waiting. It was the one constant as we went from giddy to punchy to exhausted to emotional. Toward the end, as I stood next to Yo-Nenny’s bed, I realized that I was rocking out to the rhythm, tapping my foot and bobbing my […]
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Back on April 14, Yo-Nenny sent me an email that she was going to name her new baby Whistlepig Allison Redwine. She didn’t. On October 1, 2010 at 11:11 a.m., 20-inch-long and 6-pound-2-ounce-heavy Ember Redwine arrived in our lives. In attendance were her father Jason, her aunt Lulu, and her Mama Ginna. I should not neglect to mention that Yo-Nenny did in fact show up at the birth. Not only that, she is responsible for […]
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Well, now, let’s see. I’m tired of applying for jobs: sending heartfelt pleas to invisible strangers. It’s no more productive than firing a rifle into moonless night. Dozens of missives and nary a reply. What for? to quote my dear friend MB who gave me the best tea and hot bath the other night, before we retreated to talk in his trailer that used to be a whorehouse. I’m recently back from what Eleni terms […]
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