holden parenthood

Three.

To Holden, on the eve of his third birthday: Three years ago at this moment you lived inside my belly and I had no idea who you were. I knew you got the hiccups regularly and I knew you had a rump about the size of your head, and that I could never be quite sure which was which just from running my fingers along your contours. But I didn’t know you. I saw ghostly…

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work

Some things happened and now we are here

Ah, so, I convinced some folks to put me in charge of the Design Studio, and they did. It’s so exciting and daunting. I’m ready to do it up right. I have a lot of ideas, a lot of things I want to do. I’m stretched a little thin right now, though. Still doing the old gig, which was already a 60-hours-a-week job, and now I have just seriously compounded my commitment and I am…

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