My family’s beginning to scatter.  My parents are making a grocery list to replenish the food we’ve all eaten over the last few days.  The dogs seem calmer.  We’re all recovering from Christmas. It was a good day--lots of coff...

I went to bed early last night because of my bad cold, which means that I’m up this morning before the rest of my family.  The house is quiet and warm, and I’m sitting here at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee, in a little pool of light...

I’ve just finished reading a book I wish I’d edited—or at least contributed to.  It’s called Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion (2007).  The book is filled with women...