November 2009

Museum Quality.

November 30, 2009

WISGERHOF, SIMONE LEE (b. 2008) UNTITLED INSTALLATION (Cotton socks, dental floss, toothpaste, Klonopin on ceramic bathtub) I never took art history in college, but my roommate did, and I spent hours quizzing her with elaborate flash cards. So I’m a bit of an expert on these things, and it seems clear to me that in [...]

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Officially Official Results.

November 20, 2009

Things have been tabulated, and we have a winner. Ahem! FANCY MATHEMATICAL WINNER DETERMINING METHODOLOGY: 1. First, I combed through the entries for duplicates. Several (five!) of you were so eager to correct your spelling or share a forgotten talent that you commented twice, and so I unapproved one of the comments of each double [...]

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For Preemies.

November 17, 2009

This is my daughter, about two days old. I don’t have many pictures from the early days, and those I do have little in them for scale, unless you are intimately acquainted with Neobars and nasogastric tubes. So here is a link to a larger version of that photo, too big to fit here, but [...]

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I Can Croon “Hello, Sailors” in Latin.

November 16, 2009

Just about a year ago, I posted about the charm Scott bought me from Julian & Co. I discovered their website when I was searching for jewelry to celebrate Simone’s birth. The pieces are lovely, and the artist, Tania, is the mother of a former 29-weeker (her son Julian, for whom the company is named). [...]

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Nautical.

November 9, 2009

The renogram was a success. A few days before, I called the nuclear medicine department and found that my pediatrician had been mistaken: Simone would NOT need a catheter, just the IV. The woman I spoke to would be the one performing the test, and she was so lovely and so obviously experienced with toddlers [...]

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Pip Pip! Cheerio!

November 2, 2009

In honour of the fact that I appeared yesterday in the Sunday Times, I am going to insert the letter U and replace the letter Z as necessary to make any new British readers feel at home. I don’t foresee a part of the entry in which I mention the back storage compartment of a [...]

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