Over the weekend, my husband and I were sitting around a fire pit with some friends. We are having unseasonably warm weather, here in Pennyslvania, and it felt good to try and capture some of the "normal" we've lost due to the pandemic. At one point my husband mentioned growing up near the river, and [...]
It is not that I didn't fight to get pregnant, and once I did, to stay pregnant. I did the holistic creams on the belly, I drank the raspberry leaf tea. There wasn't an internet in those days, so whenever some well meaning person had some "advice", I was willing to take it. When I [...]
I don't remember learning that I was pregnant again. I DO remember that we couldn't afford a baby and I was panicked about how to keep the light bill paid, have some semblance of food in the house, and the timing seemed overwhelming. We didn't even have the "luxury" of a telephone, which is a [...]
It was the September of my 20th year when the combination of feel and scent in the air took me back, ala' movie montage moment, to so many Septembers past. High school Septembers, Jr. High autumn evenings. Flooding, internally, from one to the next. When I was thirteen, I declared I would one day have [...]
Yesterday was one of those days when you log on, for one reason or another, and are bombarded by the news... *The shattering grief and updates from Kobe & Gigi's memorial, for one. I have so many thoughts and feelings on the pieces of that, which flooded my twitter feed, but they aren't important in [...]
