Archive for March, 2011

6 days and counting! My rule for any kind of activity during my last days of a life-without-child is that it has to be purposeful but fun.  So when Gayle King’s producer reached out to us and asked if I wanted to do the show this morning I was like, check and check! Of all [...]

I’ve been a journal writer ever since I can remember. I recently looked back on my first Strawberry Shortcake encased entry and found the most telling reveal: “I want to be a good daughter, a good granddaughter, a good sister, a good friend, a good person.” Years and volumes of journals later, I’m still grappling [...]

Don’t tell my doctor (well, she did approve very short-lived exertions) but as the weather is getting brighter and my bed-imposed mood is getting darker, I’ve ventured out of the house for extended periods of time to find a miraculous and delightful surprise: I’m really pregnant. Like stop-you-on-the-street, no one is afraid to make an [...]

Before I get started with this blog I need to disclaim the source of my inspiration.  I remember years ago looking at More magazine on the newsstand and thinking this is my mother’s magazine (well not really….my mom is more National Enquirer) but you know what I mean.  I thought it was a magazine for [...]

Before I was pregnant, whenever I would hear pregnancy/mother stories I’d half listen, not because I didn’t care — I did — but I had no frame of reference and frankly didn’t get it. (24 weeks, NICU, contractions meant nothing to me back then).  Now that pregnancy is all I have on my mind, I’m [...]