September 7 Today you talked to me. Not words but sing-songy gurgling sounds while simultaneously smiling and looking deeply into my eyes having just come off the breast. It was…
We are climbing up and down the days like ladder rungs, flying moments like kites and I am dreaming again with three and sometimes four hours of heavenly sleep at…
My friend Melissa said, if you want time to go by in a blur, have kids, and I’ve been thinking about how the seasons are flashing by in cinematic blinks…
Dear Chris I didn’t have much of a daddy. I had a biological one until the age of fourteen at which point I chose to discontinue visitation. He did a…
May 25 One month and one week ago we saw a house we loved. Just days before we walked through, I announced I’d lost faith in the whole process,…
On the first weekend of April, for my 41st birthday and to get away for a few pre-baby days, we stayed in Edgartown at a cozy inn; just what we…
We blog to tell our stories, meted out in little bits and mini chapters, and to remember- even hardships and challenges because there’s value in reflection and retrospection. We blog…
December has been filled with both utter joy and intense sadness: in Connecticut and here at home, family members gravely sick, a beloved cat dying, and now, the news just…
Two weeks ago I visited Linda Hoffman’s Harvard MA based sanctuary of farmland, orchards and sculpture. We met eight years ago in a yoga class and I learned then that…
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