At 6:50 am this February morning I was outside our catchment public elementary school waiting to register Eva for kindergarten. Registration began at 9am. What we do for love. There was only one other person when I got there, and only a dozen or so when the doors opened at 8. This is what happens [...]
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Hand timidly raised in qualification
So the strange thing about having a blog is all the things in my life I can’t write about. Or rather, the one thing I can’t really write about, which is also the one thing that I spend hours of every week doing, studying, loving, struggling with, worrying over—which is midwifery. I write about it [...]
My daughter’s stories
The other day Eva told me a story. Actually she tells a lot of stories these days. They tend to be preceded by loud announcements around the house: “The story is starting! The story is starting!” The story is often starting soon after wake-up, so her announcements sometimes continue on for a bit while I [...]
New Year’s Resolutions
Uh, oh, New Years again. Resolution time. And not just any resolution will do—for eight years running Jordan and I have played a New Years Resolution game with whatever company we find ourselves in on New Year’s Eve. Taken from a classic summer-camp activity (we met as camp counselors way back when), it’s New [...]
Working Girl
Okay, I’m going to do it – a blog entry about being a working mom. You know it had to happen. Here’s the deal: sometimes, during clinic, a client will say to me –because they all know I have two young daughters, I’d like to think not because I talk too much but [...]
We’re not Christmasans
Apparently, my four-year-old daughter confided to her pre-school teacher that, “we’re not Christmasans.” Hearing this, I was not only amused—I was also a little proud. Sometimes it’s obvious what our children understand. (For instance: when, after seeing Bambi, I overheard Eva playing with toy animals. A small giraffe called out a high-pitched, “Mama! Mama! [...]
Just call me Angel
I am a novelist and a midwifery student—currently in full-time clinical placement–plus a mother of two. Some days this feels untenable & crazy-making. Other days it’s just incredibly interesting, and a lot of fun. Years ago, when I was a kid in Flatbush, Brooklyn, we’d drive all the way to Bay Ridge just to rent [...]