Axis of evil in my baby book

With the birth of my daughter, I've recently spent some time flipping through my baby book.

It's been quite enlightening.

The best part about the baby book is that it is written by my mother, who passed away a couple years ago.  There are no home movies or audio recordings of my mother, so these words, scrawled in a baby book more than thirty years ago, are the last that I have of her. Reading them makes me wonder what her life was like back then, when life seemed so full of hope and...