Monthly Archives: December 2012
We Are All in Newtown
It is mid-December 2012 and in the background of daily life are the impending holidays and the end of the Mayan calendar on December 21, which some people suggest predicts the end of time. Last week, I thought I would … Continue reading
What We Keep
Max and I have a new fantasy for disposing of our extra furniture and belongings: buy a small house in Charlevoix, Michigan and haul it up there. We’ve picked out the house, it’s right next door to my step-mom and … Continue reading
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Learning About Lyra
“Is there a vagina?” I immediately asked the midwife. After a summer of crop-killing drought, it rain fell the day my last child was born. For the first time in two months, we turned off the air conditioning and opened … Continue reading
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Tagged Adults with Down syndrome, home birth, large families, magical thinking
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