Category Archives: Summer 2008
My Second Year of Firsts
Summer 2008 Issue They say that practice makes perfect. What they don’t tell you is that there is no practice in parenthood. It’s showtime from day one. Sure, you get better each time you change a diaper on a kid in a public place. You get better at spelling words out loud to your spouse (…) MORE »
Somewhere Between Life and Death
Summer 2008 Issue A Mother Struggles with Being a Young Woman Living with Breast Cancer As mothers raising our children in a relatively catastrophe-free environment—global wars, hurricanes and tsunamis notwithstanding—our overall sense of safety, particularly on our children’s behalf, is not regularly threatened in the Western world. Most of the women I know do not (…) MORE »
