My Favorite (Pregnancy) Things
I have a few friends who are either pregnant or trying to conceive, and as I’ve recently survived a rather challenging pregnancy, I’ve been thinking about advice I could give them. Since I...
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My Cancer’s Better Than Your Cancer
Thyroid cancer has been in the news lately, since the celebrity Brooke Burke-Charvet was diagnosed with it. I didn’t know who she was, but apparently she’s the co-host of Dancing With the ...
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Goodbye, Newborn Pajamas: I May Never See You Again
My son’s having a growth spurt this week, and overnight he stopped fitting into his newborn-sized footie pajamas. He’s a very tall boy, and has been pushing the lengths of the one-piece ou...
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Rowling Update & Recent Reads
I thought the NY Times reviewed The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling very well here: NY Times Review- The Casual Vacancy The reviewer saw more of the “societal ills” aspect to the book than...
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Halloween Hater
It’s my son’s first Halloween, which should be filling me with excitement. But it’s not. Because though he’s too young to know it now, eventually he’s going to find out t...
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Boy Toys
Yesterday, my son received a great gift from his Great-Uncle and Aunt: an interactive play yard. He had a blast with it, and it was so much fun for me too, getting to see him interact with objects and...
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