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No more snow! Mayor Dave says it’s spring, so by golly, it is spring! (Even at the beginning of March.)
Franklin the Turtle agrees!
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Spring is here!
Protected by a Child
How many times do my children protect me from harm? How does their innocence move me to seek innocence? Their natural desire to explore, learn, grow and create often protects me from losing context.
Sacrifices and Community
I think that many people who are ready to become parents know that life will change drastically when that little person (or persons) arrives on the scene. I am guessing that a woman realizes it very soon into pregnancy, as her body begins to change and respond to carrying her baby. Upon visiting a doctor […]
Do you breathe the water?
During my first pregnancy, I lived on a truck route.
My pregnancy manual, the ubiquitous and sometimes disturbing What to Expect When You’re Expecting, said that unless I was living in a bus terminal or a tollbooth, “breathing in the big city…isn’t as risky as you might think…. Even in the 1960s, when pollution was at […]
Sap Moon: Truth and Autobiography
This week as I read, I was filled with emotion: Anger. Frustration. Sadness. Hope.
“Sap Moon,” the third chapter of Having Faith, brings us case histories of four prenatal harms: rubella, thalidomide, methylmercury, and DES. Steingraber moves through each of these tragedies, telling us the stories of the people who were there and pulling out common […]
A Good Day for the Beginnings of Journeys
I must admit that I think it a bit ironic that the maiden book discussion here at RCB is about a journey to birth. This has been a dream of my husband’s for a while, but I never thought I would be leading the first discussion!
I first began reading Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to […]
