Sick boy
Sick boy sleeps now, heals Meanwhile, my sister’s firstborn Keeps distant vigil
Stephanie Coontz’ op-ed piece today in The New York Times, “Taking Marriage Private,” is very much worth a read (it’s short and to the point), and absolutely worth passing on to anyone who is a bit befuddled about the history and current limitations of that strange institution, marriage. Some choice
To be sung to the tune of “Sound of Music” (picked up at the “hills are alive” part).
[Note: this is the unedited version of what was read at the 2008 BlogHer conference, where it had to clock in at a lean, mean, under-five minutes’ read.] It was a winter morning when we discovered we were pregnant with our first child — our first pregnancy following a