Months ago I was posting drafts of memoir chapters as I wrote them. The writing has been a stop and go effort for two years now, and a huge struggle of time management. I am guilty of making more time for writing than is fair, truthfully. The balance of work, and the work I wish [...] Continue Reading »
if there were timeouts
5letter to a friend : advice rant on parenting
7as for advice…. me o my. My heart is full for new mothers. My experience of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and now this first year of motherhood has been more than I can effectively put into words. It has changed absolutely everything. Certainly for the better, though there have been lots of growing pains. It [...] Continue Reading »
acknowledging the next thing without following it
2When I nurse Addair Kentucky I listen to podcasts and one of my favorites is On Being. The last one I listened to was with poet/philosopher John O’Donohue. The thing that sticks with me is his definition of beauty. He talks about it as a homecoming. To quote him he says beauty is, “a homecoming [...] Continue Reading »
i used to know that
4I’ve been reading The Scientist in the Crib by Gopnik, Meltzoff, and Kuhl and learning about the ways babies are so very amazing. We all began with such remarkable capabilities. The chapter on Language acquisition is most interesting. Here’s an excerpt: “The way we categorically perceive speech is unique to each language. In English we make a sharp categorical [...] Continue Reading »
the beginning of a long letter to my unborn child
6There wasn’t a clear moment when I decided I was ready to be a parent, as if it were something I needed to do, and “today is the day.” Instead, it happened more like this: your mother and I (which feels weird to say considering we only passed a pregnancy test yesterday) had made a [...] Continue Reading »