Weeks past the deadline, I’m trying to sum-up Sima in a 2-minute blurb that I’ll read in front of umpteen Jews for the Jewish Book Network audition. Prove you –and your book–are appealing & nail down the Jewish content requirement, and you could be whisked away on an all-paid, cross-country tour of Jewish Book Fairs, synagogue [...]
Posts under ‘Midwifery’
Double agent
My double-life continues. On Monday I began my first of three summer placements, with a fabulous health clinic. The usual first day stuff: feeling incompetent, trying to cover feelings of incompetence and so fool everyone else into thinking I am competent, yada yada. Small successes: the metal speculum is feeling friendlier, and I may just have run [...]
On the road again
Writing from my mini-tour, having wrapped-up two readings today: afternoon at Yale’s Hillel Center and this evening at R.J. Julia, a legendary indie in Madison, CT. Feast or famine: at Yale we had 6 attendees, at R.J. Julia’s, 22. But at both the conversation was hilarious and wide-ranging…get a group of women together (men are [...]
Exam crunch
A friend wrote to tell me that a friend of hers emailed from Montreal: “I’ve just read a book you’d love,” she wrote, “it’s called Sima’s Undergarments for Women.” Cool, no? Am thick in midwifery-exam studying right now. Yes: thick in it. Which is why I am blogging, obviously, instead of reviewing, say, all the [...]
Radio redux, and hold the babies, please.
I’m back in the swing of clinical placement — the glamour of the book tour receding ever more quickly. Of course, there’s still loads of publicity to be done: for instance, it’s important that I check my amazon.com ranking at least once a day. Otherwise–well, I don’t even want to think what could happen. Seriously though [...]
Camel vs caramel, and where are the reviews?!
Things are quiet, though I’m anticipating a birth streak: on my first day back in clinic last week (with a new clinical supervisor, as the midwife I’ve been shadowing since October is on holiday this month), I discovered that all our clients appear to be 38 weeks pregnant with a history of giving birth at 38 weeks. Oh. [...]
Pinot Grigio
I seem to have thrown out the cork for the wine Jordan and I opened with dinner, and I also can’t seem to find any of those whatchamacalits–you know, wine-stoppers. So it seems I’m doomed to finish the bottle alone, as Jordan has high-tailed it over to a mandatory pre-school lecture on bully-proofing your child. [...]
Blogs
I’ve been getting a lot of blog shout-outs lately. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It’s incredibly exciting to see my book getting out there. Just about a month to publication now. Gulp. Meantime I am still in Vancouver for my midwifery intensive, trudging through slush. I’ve only been a Canadian citizen since last February (could [...]
Small victories
Well, I’ve not only bought goggles and used them once, but I’ve also bought new poetry. So so far, so good on the New Year’s Resolutions, both true and false. Of course, it’s only January 6th. But, it even gets a little better: I bought the poetry –Victoria poet Isa Milman’s Prairie Kaddish, a truly [...]
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 [...]