Archive for February, 2008

Dear God,
When my beloved baby girl
who is now only 6 inches long and weighs but 10 ounces
one day goes off to college . . .
I won’t fret if she get 14 tattoos,
or pierces most every inch of the flesh I have tried to carefully tend,
or moves from Zen Buddhism to Agnosticism to Atheism
because I know […]

Is it a boy? Is it a girl? No, it’s Skeletor!
At least, that is what I believe. The photographic evidence given at yesterday’s ultrasound belies only the fact that the creature within me has a skull. The doctor kept excitedly pointing out, “Oh, there’s the bladder! It looks […]

“So when will your current project be finished?”
“In the middle of July.”
“Oh, wow, so the prospectus passed?”
“No. I was talking about the baby.”
“Oh.”
“Yeah, the dissertation. That’s eternally gestating.”
“So you’ll finsih it in the fullness of time then?”
“Exactly!”

Neal Shusterman’s book Unwind is one of the better Science Fiction-y young adult books I’ve read in a long time. Its set in the future after the “Heartland War.” This war pitted Pro-Life believers against Pro-Choicers. Ultimately, the war ended because of the “Bill of Life.” This Constitutional addendum said that […]

We are wrapping up week 18 here at Camp TheologyMama-to-be. I decided that I will keep my thoughts on this whole motherhood thing at a new blog, lest my 10 devoted readers at TheologyGirl would rather not read about it.
I can’t say that I have much insight into all things mother and baby related. […]