Last week snow settled into the stripes of the Topa Topa mountains above our house, and further up the canyon dusted all the trees. Then a few days of sunshine. And last night the rain came down by the bucketful. It has been surreal, the fact that the world goes on from here–and us with …
James Valentine Peake was born on Tuesday, January 24th by emergency Caesarian section. He lived only three days, and died in my arms on Friday, January 27th. He was surrounded by the love of his family. He went peacefully without struggle or pain, and looked ever more beautiful as he was leaving our world. Even …
I couldn’t resist. Here is your opportunity to generate names for my child that will give him or her the initials PHP. [Update: I broke it by turning on archiving in the blog and am too lazy to fix it. But the source (below) still works. Honest]
Just a quick note to say that since announcing my news recently, a rather irreverent post has emerged recommending I name the child Phil Horatio, or Patrick Henry, or Paige Henrietta–anything, really, to ensure the child ends up with the initials PHP. Pretty funny stuff.
Baby Peake On The Way Something happened about 20 weeks ago that I haven’t blogged about yet. But having seen the face of the being who, inshallah, will soon be my child–I felt the need to share. And, given I am entering a whole new chapter in my own life shortly, I added a new …
