Image credit: Photo by Pink Sherbet Photography on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "I bet anything she's pregnant," said Mark as we left a get together with friends in the years long before recovery. Having been through a pregnancy recently ourselves at that point, we knew what to look for: the change in eating habits, [...]
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Set Apart
Image credit: Photo by timabbott on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A recent NY Times opinion piece on toxins and autism has been making the rounds lately, and well, frankly, the piece bugs the crap out of me, and I can't quite figure out why. After all, it seems like, not just an excellent idea, [...]
This Is Not my Life
Image credit: Photo by mtraker on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Just before my son Austen was born, Mark and I bought a video camera, so that we could document each special moment of his new life. Of course, the milestones, like Austen, were quirky: giving his earliest smiles to a beloved bottle of hand [...]
Giving Birth to Change
Image credit: Photo bymindfulness on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons When I was about eight or nine, I took my beloved uncle's cigarettes away and started flushing them down the toilet. I didn't want him to die prematurely (as he did anyway). Even as a child, I was sure that if I showed him how desperately [...]
Yoga Lessons
Three years ago, I walked into my first yoga class looking for help and relief. I have had back pain since I was a teenager, probably too many years of carrying too many books in a bag fashionably slung over one shoulder. Or maybe just too many years of stoically insisting on carrying loads that [...]
The Child That Wasn’t
Before I had any children, it always seemed to me that parents didn't do enough, which was easy for me to say from the outside. I once had a co-worker who used to bitch about her pregnancy all the time: how tired she was and how huge she was and how in pain she was [...]
