Is fetal origins research ruining my fetus?
Maybe, like me, you read this Time magazine article a couple years ago and it scared the crap out of you. Or maybe, like my sister, you were forwarded this TED talk and later had to call someone, as...
View ArticleYou Go, Swimmer-Girl!
The pool is filled with a couple hundred almost identical teenaged girls in caps and competition suits. You can smell the estrogen in the humid air. Later, their screams urging on teammates pierce the...
View Article‘Crunch!’— Welcome to Adulthood.
I crunched a car yesterday – backed out of my parking space and right into a car parked perpendicularly behind mine. I could excuse myself and tell you that I was carefully watching for the folks...
View ArticleFacing My Prime Time Fears
For the past few years, whenever it’s come up that my son has Asperger’s I’ve inevitably been asked, “Oh, do you watch Parenthood?” Until recently, any reference to this television drama was a...
View ArticleBeing the best I can be – defining that, then going forward
photo by katagaci at sxc.hu I saw a commercial the other day. A woman of a certain age started to jog, then she was running in a race. Her family (I assume it was her family) gathered round her as she...
View ArticleThat Sheryl. She’s Got Something to Say.
Stories about successful female CEOs aren’t really my thing. I left behind a corporate career that I loved and I left it long before I had babies, okay, turns out it was six years before I had babies....
View ArticleConfessions of a mostly stay at home mom
I’m primarily a stay at home mom. And sometimes people pay me to work as a doula and as a freelance video producer and editor. When I have a project or a client or both, I trade time I normally spend...
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