That’s right, we are officially announcing the name of our daughter on Christmas. Her name will be Nora.

Lots of love from the 2.65 of us to all of you.

For a long time, since long before procreation was discussed seriously, Marga and I have been in agreement about one thing: our child will have a name that is easily legible and pronounceable in both English and Spanish. Rather unexpectedly, since the pregnancy, family members from both countries have expressed concern about this, “Just [...]

Several friends highly recommended that we go to a special private ultrasound clinic. For 100€, we were told, you get much clearer pictures of your unborn child. We considered not doing it and saving the c-note, but in the end our curiosity got the better of us. Not to mention our bad [...]

A few days after finding out that we’d be having a daughter, a thought came to me, I laughed out loud and told Marga, “You know, the main reason Americans want to know the sex of their fetus is to paint the nursery, the kid’s room, a gender-appropriate color. So that’s one less thing to [...]

It has always seemed odd to me that, in the English language, we say “It’s a boy!”, or “It’s a girl!” Why not “She’s a girl!” or “He’s a boy!”? But then we say “It’s me,” when calling someone on the phone. In Spanish, they say “Soy yo,” conjugating the verb into [...]

We’re still a little ways out from the infamous third trimester, but we did have a conversation the other day that makes me chuckle every time I think of it. Marga was looking at a shop window that I wasn’t interested in. I was looking in wonder at a jewelry store window full [...]

What do you think of when you see the words “two bits”? Is that 25¢ or half of a nibble? To me, a computer geek in the early 21st century (no quantum computing yet), two bits means the latter: half a nibble, a quarter of a byte. Two binary values, 0 or [...]

Marga has been very, very sick lately. We didn’t go out at night at all during our August vacations. We haven’t been to our normal weekly salsa dancing outings since early July. She’s had zero appetite and has been forcing herself to eat a bare minimum to survive. As a result, [...]