I mean You! Stepping into the season of celebrations I want to first tell you that I LOVE YOU. You! I don’t mean the generic anonymous “readers of my blog.” I mean You. The You I am or have been in relationship with. The You whose lows and highs of the motherhood journey I’ve witnessed week after week […]

The power of the Shame Orphan My last blog was about the courage to speak up for what we value, which appears to be a topic that may need a bit more unpacking.  One of the stunning, generous comments by H. inspired the continuation of that dialogue. This is part of the comment: “Also, thanks […]

 Who is She? I would like to turn off all news channels, go hiking on this lovely day before my birthday. I would like to erase from memory that image of a river of blood which one of the witnesses of the Paris massacre described seeing from the window of his apartment. But She is […]

A few years ago, I made up a brand new holiday. I declared November 9 the International Day of Compassion.

Reading the awesome comments (thank you!) on the “Believe in Yourself: Is That All It Takes? blog, I thought it might be useful to stay with that theme a bit longer. Some of you have read that piece as if “belief” referred to your belief in becoming pregnant, and “doubt” referred to doubting that pregnancy was going to […]