To the best Abby-daddy I know:
Thanks for getting me into this mess. Thank you for keeping me sane through 24 hours of labor. Thank you for holding the household together when I was a postpartum hormonal wreck. Thank you for getting up with Abby every morning, for bathing her every other night, for being more [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Father’s Day
Posted in family, photos, tagged abigail, family, holidays, photos on 06.22.2009 | 3 Comments »
if you can’t take the heat, step away from the kiln
Posted in art on 06.18.2009 | 11 Comments »
You know, I signed up for pottery class because I thought it would be a nice break. Four hours (including transportation), every week, when I am not with my toddler. The first week, it felt strange to be away from her for such a big chunk of the day, but the second week I don’t [...]
something new
Posted in art on 06.5.2009 | 10 Comments »
Our friend Kazuko is a potter. She’s been working with clay for over fifteen years. She and her husband have known my parents a long time, so I remember when she first began learning at the wheel.
Kazuko is a lifelong artist who studied painting and weaving as a young woman in Tokyo, and none of [...]