Are you a mom who has found solace in the stories on this blog and podcast? Would you like to hear more? I am in the process of writing some proposals to try to make sure I can keep this project going on a regular basis. Any support you can show will help—become a Facebook […]
An unexpected tragedy turns a mean mommy into a laid back one.
In music class and at the pool the mothers of the most rambunctious kids always say to me, “Sasha seems so easy. Is she easy?” It’s a tough question to answer because I sort of don’t believe that taking care of any young child is easy (though lots of moms tell me that it is […]
Listener Kate Bowman-Johnston recently interviewed me for the online magazine Catapult. I could tell from her questions that she totally got LST. And her article showed me that I was right. Read about Kate’s longest shortest time here. It involves Sitz baths and crying in the bathroom. And a song to help you get through […]
Thirty-four years after having me, my mom breaks down for the first time over not being able to breastfeed me.
Here’s what I knew about myself as a newborn before I became a mom: I weighed four-and-a-half pounds (though I wasn’t a preemie); my parents took me from the hospital against doctors’ orders, before I had gained the required amount of weight to leave; and I had shockingly orange hair (I come from two brunettes). […]
A vegetarian of 22 years decides that the way to fix her son’s umbilical hernia is to start eating meat.
A sigh of relief. But more relief needed.