That sound, my friends, is crickets and tree frogs and songbirds and children playing on the other side of a vast expanse of country lawn. It is a sound that dampens the effect of...

Ever have those days when you really, really want to write something - purge your clogged brain, sweep out the dustier corners of your soul, open the windows on your heart and let some...

In to the doctor today, for Jasper's test results. All of my energies are directed toward willing the doctor to say 'it was nothing. He's fine.'He WILL be fine. He WILL.Say it with...

... and, instead of composing a post with actual thoughts and ideas, I simply document a completely insignificant but nonetheless memorable milestone in my daughter's life: the first real (i.e. not performed by Mommy...

I love holding my baby. Holding my baby is one of the sweetest pleasures that I have ever known. Holding my baby fills my heart with an almost unbearable joy. The sweet smell of...

I'm telling you, it ain't pretty:It does, however, have its moments of beauty. Read more about it here.(All of my creative and emotional energies of yesterday and today - those not spent on son,...

I'm still overwhelmed, but I'm hanging on. I don't know how to begin to thank you all for your supportive comments and offers of help and words of advice and all. that. love. It's...

Recovery isn't going as well as I'd like, nor is breastfeeding - it's actually all going sorta badly (let's just say, there are icepacks on every sensitive area of my body, and they're not...

I had hoped that this Mother's Day would bring me a baby. It didn't, and I was discouraged.Then I remembered: I already have a baby. I already am a mother. Not that...

No, I have still not had this baby. I'm still having contractions, sometimes painful ones, but they're still irregular. I'm not going to prattle on about how frustrating this is, because you've heard it...