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Mr. WILDER: I like writing now much more than I do acting only because well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk.
I don’t say all of them, but the ones that are offered to me, I say I don’t want to do that, explosives and special [...]
I am not good at making things look good. I have never been good at making things look good. I was never good with coloring books. My posters for class projects were never great. I’ve always lacked skill at folding clothes. Don’t even get me started on my hair.
As a kid, I would always try [...]
It’s almost my birthday.
Not much to say today. Bread is rising. Baby is sleeping. I am reading poems at the kitchen table and drinking milk from a small ceramic bowl.
Oh, quiet night.
Goodnight.
Yesterday.
Today.
This is March in Wisconsin. And I like it. I really do. Cross my heart and kiss my elbow.
I didn’t spend much time with babies before Reed was born. And, to tell you the truth, I didn’t really care to. So, I am surprised by many things about life with a baby. But what surprises me the most often and the most extravagantly is what good company such a little person can be. [...]
My little boy is almost five months old, now. It’s cliche, I know, but, my! they grow up fast! The first month or two had an almost fever-like slowness to it. The days were still and long and hazy. It was beautiful for that, a lot like the first trimester of my pregnancy. But, now, [...]
This weekend was a birthday weekend. Last year during Adam’s birthday, I was in my first trimester of pregnancy. I slept a minimum of eleven hours a night and subsisted on little more than oranges and toast. This year, I baked Adam’s cake during naptime and we toted Reed along to brunch with Adam’s parents. [...]
Shortly after Reed was born, we filled our freezer with half a hog. It was a beautiful sight, all the crisp paper parcels stacked in the deep freeze ready to feed us through the winter. The shoulder roasts vanished first. Then, during a split pea soup craze, the hocks. We made the belly into home [...]
It’s now all wrinkled happy from being worn well, but #36 is completed.
It has been busy. I would write more, but I will take this small sliver of time after the boy is asleep and before I am to work on 2 and 10.
March is one of my most favorite times of year. Happy spring, [...]