getting dirrrty with it

So allo, you. Long time no see, eh? Tis been a bit busier than usual round these parts. Mommy’s been working on this and that, cooking up a lil bit of gardening with a dash of exercise and a heaping portion of yumdiddly good foods. Right now I’m gearing up for a month of blogging [...]

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Dazzled by my daughter

It has been a long time since I checked in with the Mutant. I missed this space even tho you can hardly tell by the dearth of entries. Life has been busy. A few days after the calendar new year we welcomed our daughter, Quinn, into the world and we haven’t stopped [...]

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latest development

today lucas described his toy car as the ‘red kia’.

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Oubliette. Oblige. Obliterate.

Words. Words are powerful. Words are imaginary and yet…wherever they are, there you are. I watch my son become indoctrinated by our language and I mourn for the self that disappears each day, the self beyond words that is so difficult to grasp as an adult. I know verbal language helps us [...]

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3 faces of sr lucas


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The freaks come out at night

Today was pretty low key. Lucas has been taking his naps at an earlier hour than usual, which has discombobulated my day. Now I think it’s later earlier. Does that make sense? It means that our afternoons are longer. They stretch before us in a sometimes imposing manner.
Lately Wade has [...]

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