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  • My Personal Reinvention: Part 3 (of 3)

    Friday, December 11th, 2009

    12.11.09.AirplaneI am heading home now, having stayed an extra day. A perfectly wonderful extra day. Thinking a lot, as usual, I sit quietly in the dark on the plane, wishing I could fall asleep. I am instead listening, in my…

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  • My Personal Reinvention: Part 2 (of 3)

    Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

    Sunday – 12 noon:

    I am sitting on a US Airways flight taking a trip that I have cancelled and rescheduled 3 times in the last 6 days, twice being in the last 8 hours (yes, you can kind of

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  • My Personal Reinvention: Part 1 (of 3)

    Sunday, December 6th, 2009

    Alexander & I in Wyoming this summer

    I seem to have had a revelation today. And that is that if I am to truly write a blog, it is going to have to be completely genuine (which it has been), but what that really means is…

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  • Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Long Weekend

    Sunday, November 29th, 2009

    DownloadedFileI am thankful for so many things. Enjoying time with family, friends and loved ones is, of course, so important. We enjoyed that very much. We also spent time with and helped feed our community in San Francisco who don’t…

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  • Good Shoulder Report

    Friday, November 20th, 2009

    Just a quick note to say that my shoulder is healing really well. The pain is MUCH better and I will not be having surgery just now. I may in fact do it in the future because it may not…

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  • Pain

    Saturday, November 14th, 2009

    index_pain Pain is such an interesting  and complex subject. For so many reasons. How it feels is entirely personal,  it has some cultural influence, and how we deal with it is greatly affected by our previous experiences, our level of…

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  • Uh Oh… No Time For an Injury

    Sunday, November 8th, 2009

    I hurt my arm. My shoulder, actually. I mean really hurt it. I slipped down the stairs, on a normal morning (last Friday) and bam, an entire series of repercussions have appeared. I instinctively put my arm…

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  • Celebrity Scientists? I Don’t Think So

    Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

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    I get fired up about things. Those closest to me definitely know this. Those I often meet for the first time, quickly learn this. I teach Alexander that his passions and his beliefs matter. And that having his own…

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  • Lots of Book News

    Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

    birdEarlier this week, I had such a great experience. A woman came into the hospital, in labor, actually carrying a copy of the book. My book. I said hello to her and she looked at me  with a funny expression…

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  • When Things Don’t Go As Planned: Preeclampsia

    Monday, October 5th, 2009

    As I continue the discussion on home-birth I’d like to share with you my experience with Alexander’s birth. It is an excellent example of how unexpectedly things can change.Home_pic

    I was really…

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