Monthly Archives: January 2014
Becoming the Mother I Wanted
On a snowy winter’s morning twenty years ago my college mentor told me, “What you have just done has happened billions upon billions of times in human history and yet I know that right now you feel like the first … Continue reading
Traditions Refashioned
When the big boys were little, my biggest writing project of the year was my holiday letter. Every December, beginning in 1994 just before Claude’s first birthday, I wrote a two-page letter of family updates and book recommendations mixed with … Continue reading
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