Author: Mihow

  • Eating Habits At Nine Months.

    Emory is a week shy of nine months. Man, does time ever fly! He’s grown so much. Every part of him has grown, well, except for his hair. He’s still as bald as can be. I really wish these little dudes came with instructions. Whenever I screw up putting Ikea furniture together, I always just…

  • Beneath A Parachute.

    Stories For My Son: Scene Three. (Watch the others here.) P.S. I am having great difficulty (both technically and personally) with the good ol’ blog today. Do forgive me for any weirdness you may have seen here today.

  • Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 42)

    I save flowers. I dry them out and I save them. I have kept a bouquet in a homemade vase for several years. The picture below was taken of our place before we had a baby, before we moved the futon from the guest bedroom (now the nursery) into the dining room (now the makeshift…

  • None of What You Hear and Half of What You See.

    What if you woke up today and read the following expert from a blog based out of Brooklyn. I saw a woman pull a baby out of the trunk of her car on Friday afternoon. It was horrifying. You see, I was at the bodega on Meeker Avenue buying some lottery tickets. I rounded the…

  • Making Boys Gay.

    Stories For My Son: Scene Two. (Side note: I realized today that I have a lisp. I am not sure if it’s due to my excessive hearing loss or all the orthodontic work I had done as a kid. But it’s there, clear as day.)

  • Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 41)

    A couple of weeks ago I decided to make a sandwich only to discover we were completely out of bread. As I cursed at Toby for finishing off the bread and not letting me know, I heated up some soup instead. Later that day I purchased two loaves of bread at our local Key Foods.…

  • One Year Without You.

    Sleep tight, Big Guy.

  • CNN Headline Shirts

    Toby has been working a lot lately. I was starting to wonder if I still had a husband. The good news is, the project is wrapping up. I’m excited for obvious reasons—I get my (weekend) husband back. But I’m also excited because I finally get to share the project with everyone! The Barbarian Group worked…

  • Top Chef Chicago: No Spice.

    I love Top Chef. Toby and I are huge fans. We look forward to it each and every week. It’s not unheard of for one of us to wake up on Wednesday morning and express out loud how excited we are about 10 PM. And season three was awesome. I don’t know what it is…

  • Stories For My Son. (Part 1)

    I’m starting a new series called “Stories For My Son”. Well, that’s the working title. It may change. My plan is to record a story at least once a week. We’ll see how it goes. But for now expect a new video every Wednesday. Edited to add: So, I think my video may have made…