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Maiden Flight by 99% Wife and Mom... 1% Everything Else on Jun 10, 2009Manila trip - Day 1Woog knows his dinosaurs. His particular favorites are brachiosaurs, diplodocuses, and brontosaurs - those huge lumbering long-necked lizards that lived millions of years before his own father ever thought of depositing the sperm c...

Speeding Through Time, Heels Digging In by 99% Wife and Mom... 1% Everything Else on Jun 3, 2009It's June. Woog's 7th birthday. Where did my baby go? Where did the summer go? The rain is pelting down on the roof, and the sun is making its requisite weak effort. Mano a mano, neither the one giving in.We woke up early today, the darkness permeat...

Woog's Tooth by 99% Wife and Mom... 1% Everything Else on May 28, 2009A little boy with grin so wideRan down the stairs all full of pride“I pulled it out, so there,” said he“It did not hurt a bit, you see.”He showed me chompers shining whiteAnd bottom center was the sight:A gap so dark I barely sawthe yawning c...

Play It Again For The Second Time Around Once More, A Rerun by 99% Wife and Mom... 1% Everything Else on Apr 1, 2009Because we sent him to school at age 3, and because the Philippine school system is run by a bunch of bureaucratic idiots who change their policies depending on where the money falls (6 1/2 to 7 years is the new parameter for first grade) , Woog grad...

Atonement by 99% Wife and Mom... 1% Everything Else on Mar 26, 2009Atonement isn't all that difficult it seems, but accomplishing it is an excruciating exercise. You're aware of your attempt to make amends, and the brutal truth is, it doesn't make you feel any better about yourself.I make another foray into the job...

NO SALVATION by 99% Wife and Mom... 1% Everything Else on Mar 4, 2009...and sometimes I drown in words, my eyes blank with acceptance as I sink into their depths. They fill my nose and my mouth and my mind until I cannot breathe and I cannot think. But I do not struggle as I slowly submerge. For this is my fate, and t...

No Salvation by 99% Wife and Mom... 1% Everything Else on Mar 4, 2009...and sometimes I drown in words, my eyes blank with acceptance as I sink into their depths. They fill my nose and my mouth and my mind until I cannot breathe and I cannot think. But I do not struggle as I slowly submerge. For this is my fate, and t...

Not Much Difference Really by 99% Wife and Mom... 1% Everything Else on Dec 8, 2008Panic. Panic. Panic. Woog is moaning underneath the blankets. Clutching them up to his chin. Curled into himself like a shrimp. Shivering, burning, shivering. Mom. Sniffle. Mom, my head is dizzy. My feet are cold. Mom. Mom. Thirty-five ye...

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself..." - Khalil Gibran by 99% Wife and Mom... 1% Everything Else on Sep 6, 2008...and so I called him after lunch on a Friday, eaten by regret that I was too harsh with him for not writing down his homework, leading to my punishing him by withholding a story at bedtime, and because, still vindictive, I lashed out at him for lin...

(S)mothering Much? by 99% Wife and Mom... 1% Everything Else on Aug 12, 2008Woooooog....!Oh, there you are. I was wondering what you were up to...What's that you're doing?Heyyyyy, cool. Those look good. You're actually working with your hands for once, good boy! It's a whole lot better than working with your m