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Category: SQUIRE TUCK

  • smarter than a bag of hair

    On Tuesday we took Squire Tuck to the doctor, where they determined that he is not brain dead. Sometimes I have trouble deciding whether I am more frustrated by American doctors ("Well, either your hearing loss is permanent or your hearing will come back sooner or later") or Czech doctors. As she fixed the funny…

  • tutor to two-two tuckova, part two

    hey guess what i went to on tuesday night? an AWESOME parent teacher conference. who knew, right? Friar Tuck couldn’t go so i stood in the little line outside the classroom reading my new margaret atwood book (love!) and pretending not to listen to the woman who likes to complain about how much she hates…

  • disarming

    i am thinking so hard these last few days that my head actually hurts. look! i will spare you all that with instead a lovely little slice of life story. yesterday i asked Squire Tuck to do a few things and he agreed; in fact we stopped just shy of spitting in our hands before…

  • bully for you

    yeah, so Squire Tuck got beaten up in school a couple weeks ago. to say that he’s one of the bravest people i know is the spin i like best for this right now. as in, the morning after it happened i told him he didn’t have to go to school if he didn’t feel…

  • tutor to two-two tuckova

    i dream that my ear itches and i go looking for a q-tip. they’re not on the bathroom shelf where they usually are; they’re on a different shelf, but it’s not any kind of a stressful hunt or anything, just, huh, different shelf. i wake up and my ear itches and i go looking for…

  • Squire Tuck

    Squire Tuck is pretty awesome. it’s interesting to me, our ability to go on for days and weeks just sort of existing together in a calm affection and then one day he’ll enrage me to the point that i think MAYBE BOARDING SCHOOL because i will never be able to handle him as a teen,…