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a book club/reading group starting Feb 2023
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how I have come to love sleep with young children
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November 2022

“Life is a window of vulnerability.” —Donna Haraway 8 month old O, is picking up bits of oatmeal and thawed berries with her burgeoning pincer grip…
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October 2022

Hello gentle reader—I haven’t sent out a new entry since the end of July even though I write all the time. It feels like it’s been a few days and many…
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July 2022

“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”― Joan Didion In the fall of 2021, the vaccine passport became commonplace for most public spaces…
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I first realized the maniacal need to control women's desires looking at the inordinate fetuses on the pro-life (anti-choice) posters that covered the…
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June 2022

me two weeks after giving birth to O— It’s a snowstorm-warning February morning and a brimming cloth bag is dropped off on our stoop. “I see something…
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May 2022

The mother opened her mouth, waiting for her daughter’s breath to reach hers, to smell the milk stuck between ridges of her tiny tongue. It was dark so…
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February 2022

“Let yourself into the experience. See the baby and you together birthing. Am I clear, dear?” My Francophone midwife tries to get me out of my head. She…
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January 2022

The first time I notice S— (not as a newborn) playing with his belly on the floor I am flooded with emotions of how at ease he is. I stiffen. I am…
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Earlier in the fall when we hadn’t yet began a search for a baby name—avoiding the acceptance of newborn care—a book spine with a handwritten typeface…
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December 2021

Blop. I’m reading em by Kim Thúy for a book review I’m due to do. Blurp. My belly shakes and a pointy appendage sticks out the right side. My insides…
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