On Having a Best Friend

You don’t recognize it with the formality of, say, exchanging rings and pledging lifelong fidelity, and yet somehow, that’s how important it is.

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August 30, 2004. My kids. Leave a comment.

Going Native

Hey Y’all, it isn’t as bad as it sounds.

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August 30, 2004. My kids. Leave a comment.

Life in the Sling

Life doesn’t slow down so you can stop and nurse
when you have three older children.

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August 29, 2004. My kids. Leave a comment.

The Fringes of Nutrition

I ordered my dehyrdrator yesterday, so I am
really committed to trying raw foods. Why does this scare me?

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August 29, 2004. My kids. Leave a comment.

Three Metaphors for the Postpartum Experience

Because if I can’t describe exactly how it feels,
I can tell you what it resembles…

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August 29, 2004. My kids. Leave a comment.

Birth Story 4.0

Is this interesting to anyone who isn’t pregnant
or just given birtth or a self-proclaimed natural birth junkie? But it helps
keep me from assaulting total strangers in line at the grocery store with “Guess
what I did!” I have spent forever editing this, wanting it to be perfect, but
it is what it is.

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August 28, 2004. My kids. Leave a comment.

Why It’s Hard to Take Pictures of Newborns

When you can’t write, make lists

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August 25, 2004. My kids. Leave a comment.

What I can remember reading

I like less and less television, and I can read
and nurse at the same time and it’s safer than cooking and
nursing…

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August 25, 2004. What I am reading. Leave a comment.