Category: Pregnancy

  • the Circle of Life

    the Circle of Life

    Only a few cards arrive for my husband’s birthday, but our kitchen window is full. Cards line the sill, and others hang from the wooden mullions that lend our Vermont farmhouse that window-pane look. Moons and lambs and jumping cows continue to trickle in–and do look out of place beside the ones poking fun of…

  • ~a first love & abortion story~

    (Author’s note: This was one of my most challenging pieces to write– inspired by a friend whose teen was making decisions about sex.  A year later, I mustered the courage to share it with my own teen who to my surprise said, “Mom you have to put this out there” –and so I did, on…