A former preemie reflects on her experiences as a mother of two preemies, and shares her experience writing a viral article about the NICU.
Writing for NICU Awareness Month
Category Archives: Musings
Meditation for a March
This weekend, I’ll be attending the Women’s March on Washington. Admist the preparation and the conversation and the planning that has ensued, I’ve, of course, been thinking about #whyImarch. Thinking about the number of sister marches around the country, and even the world: 616 and counting as of this writing, with over 1.3 million people […]
On Fighting Plague in America
[A revised version of this post appears on the website Killing the Buddha, as of Monday Nov. 28, 2016.] The morning after the election, I woke to a world where the sun rose again, streaming through the east-facing window behind my bed. The brilliant November sunrise seemed in stark contrast to the news I already […]
September 11th: a moment rooted in place and time
I remember the first time I realized September 11th had become an event that would fade out of active memory and into the pages of history books, when one day, people would no longer say, “I remember where I was when September 11th happened.” I was teaching the “contemporary” half of a United States history class, […]
How not to write a blog
I have been looking back at an anonymous blog I kept in 2013 and 2014. What I found there surprised me: posts I still felt good about and posts I wish I’d never written, followed by a whole lot of wondering what I thought I was doing as I stumbled about in blogging-land. I hope I’ve I learned […]
