Does God Mind Nose Picking During Communion?

Yesterday, I took our two-year-old son with me to church while Andrew stayed home sick with the other two.  Still on crutches for a suspected stress fracture in my hip, I relied on my friends/pew-mates to help my son make it up to the alter with me for communion.
No sooner had we gotten settled at [...]

Analysis of the first presidential Obama-McCain Debate

After watching with bated breath (ok, maybe not so bated…but certainly with great interest) the first Obama-McCain debate, here’s my unofficial, unsolicited analysis of what happened:
Lehrer: What’s your take on what’s happening with our economy?
Obama: It’s the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.  We’ve watched our country’s economy go into the shitter in [...]

Chapter Share: Chapter Thirteen ~ Pregnancy Number Three: The Second Trimester

While the following chapter of A Dozen Invisible Pieces and Other Confessions of Motherhood is still difficult for me to re-read to this day, I still appreciate it for its frankness–something I had to do at the time, while writing this book, as a measure of catharsis–and ultimately,  a motivating factor in my willingness to [...]

Childbirth Stories

As Andrew succinctly captured in his post today, we had an awesome party at our house yesterday afternoon with several of the Lamaze class couples I have taught in the past several years, along with their kiddos.
Because of the work I do, (okay, because of one of the several hats I wear) I get to [...]

Chapter Share, Part Two: Chapter Twenty-Five ~ The Saniplane

Following in the footsteps of yesterday’s post…here’s the audio version of another one of my favorite chapters from A Dozen Invisible Pieces and Other Confessions of Motherhood…

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