WonderBaby came into this world with her eyes wide open, silent but for a few obligatory shouts. There had been complications, so they whisked her away for a moment, but within a very few...

Last pregnancy, I had no morning sickness. This pregnancy, the morning sickness is lasting ALL DAY. I've been curled up in the fetal position on the floor, eyes squeezed shut to stop the endless...

My sister, finishing, in competition-rank timing, the Toronto Waterfront marathon.She ran for her son. She ran her heart out. She's my hero.These are heroes, too. Walking their hearts out for a little boy...

My first pregnancy was - for the first six months - a long gauntlet-run of fear and anxiety. I started bleeding about seven weeks in, and this continued off-and-on until well into the second...

The first time that you do it, it's like taking a long jump off of a short pier into unfamiliar waters.Maybe it was something that you always wanted to do. Maybe you were enticed...

(It's early days, but I'm sharing anyway. Because so many of you figured out that my anniversary message to my husband was coded. Also, because it's all that I can think about, and how...

September 22, cough 1996Every year, symptoms more amazing than the last.Ever more amazing years to come.You, me, we three, we three plus.Us....

I'm in a blogging funk.I keep posting because I need to keep writing, keep talking, but I'm finding it difficult. And I'm finding it even more difficult to venture beyond the confines of my...

This morning, Wonderbaby tugged on my arm as I lay on the sofa, sniffling and coughing and muttering softly about the evil of Bill Maher and of viruses in general. She tugged on my...

The Second Law of Domestic Dynamics - the Law of Parental Entropy - states that one's children will be demanding in inverse proportion to one's level of energy. Which is to say, the slower...