I’ve Buried the Lead: You May Skip to Paragraph Four.

1. Wow. I have taken an uncharacteristically long and unplanned break from posting.

2. Big things have been happening. And they’re good ones, mostly!

3. The first is that I’ve been away on vacation, staying on a lake and staying on an organic farm, with nearly no connectivity. In case you’re wondering, this is the right thing to do, and I should do it more. We all should. No wonder organic animals are so pleased and doe-eyed and happy, even right on the eve of slaughter: they have no web connectivity.

4. The second is that I’ve been working hard on a project, one which has been taking nearly everything I’ve got, it seems, and that project is, DRUMROLL, that I am making a baby in my stomach!

Anatomists, hold your tongues. Uterus. Wherever. Sigh.

So! The multi-faceted excellent news is that  I’m about 14 weeks along in a new pregnancy, and that it seems to be going well, at least in there, and that, my goodness, another baby will come to live here! It’s crazy and exciting to imagine. Who will it be? Henryish? Completely different? A boy? A girl?

Another facet, one of less shining brilliance, is that pregnancy wallops me in many ways.

Now that I am going public with the news, I’ll be posting later today or tomorrow about how pregnancy robs me of energy, dignity, and the ability to keep my esophageal flaps closed, but wanted to share the good news first.

This week’s vocabulary word: lanugo.

Hooray!