“Practice listening like a doe at the edge of the earth’s deep woods”

I heard “Advice to a Pregnant Daughter-in-Law” by Charles Darling on the Writer’s Almanac today (July 1). Be not afraid of poetry. Go read it!
It made me cry, partially because I think that aside from being a poet yourself, one of the coolest things in the world would be to have married a man whose [...]

The Food of Love

I love breastfeeding. I love the way Patter curls his legs up on my belly, closes his eyes, and melts into total body bliss while he’s nursing. I love that I don’t have to get up in the night to fix a bottle and that I don’t have to prepare bottles to take when I [...]

Books 2008

My favorites are in bold.
Turns out I’ve become a tough customer in the fiction department; the Amy Bloom novel is the only one I was really jazzed about. I had highly anticipated the Lahiri collection and was sad to discover I had read most of the stories in the New Yorker over the last few [...]

this strong body

I’ve been reading about one book a week since I had Patter, mostly during nursing sessions in the middle of the night.
Recently I finished Leslie Goldman’s Locker Room Diaries: The Naked Truth about Women, Body Image, and Reimagining the “Perfect Body.”  Goldman is about my age, a recovered anorexic living in Chicago, and a self-proclaimed gym rat. [...]

Time for Your Reading Score

There are many book-memes out there…this one I snagged from a woman in my book club because it’s related to the National Endowment for the Arts and so it just feels official, ya’know? Although I must say that I’m kind of disgusted to see Mitch Albom on the same list as Shakespeare. Really? Will he be [...]