Tori's Blog
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The Truth About Misinformation-I Am Perpetually Stunned
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009Some people tell stories when they write. Some tell facts or talk of important journalistic issues. I have a tendency merely to put into words what sloshes around in my brain. The funny thing about this is that I am not really a “literary person”. I don’t read cathartic current novels, I was in a book club for 5 years and finally quit because no one ever liked my idea of reading Stephen King and honestly, for me, books and...
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My Personal Reinvention: Part 3 (of 3)
Friday, December 11th, 2009
I 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 head, to the voice of my mentor, Maryann. She is truly the woman who maintains my sanity. Truly maintains it. I happen to also be listening to the New York Dolls.I am also smiling, as I had, mere minutes before,...
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My Personal Reinvention: Part 2 (of 3)
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009Sunday – 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 do that with Orbitz). I readily admit that I do carry a true “lack of advance planning” gene when it comes to travel but this has set a new record even for me.
To add to this adventure, this morning I drove...
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My Personal Reinvention: Part 1 (of 3)
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
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 that it has to be so much more than just a pregnancy and new baby information source. Pregnancy and birth are truly such a huge part of anything I think about or write, but the truth is, it isn’t everything.
I have...
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Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Long Weekend
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
I 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 have as much as we do.What is also really important is something we just don’t get enough of … just plain downtime. We slept in, we saw two movies, we played ALOT of Monopoly® . Did you know that owning...
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Parenting Memories – Anna Quindlen’s Essay Is True For Us All
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
As we approach Thanksgiving I have thought about what to say about being thankful. The idea became crystal clear when I received an email from my good friend Tam in Oregon. My friend Tam, who has a four month old baby, and whom I don’t talk to or see nearly enough (through my own ridiculous doing). Lucky for me I will see her over the holiday.She sent an article that I have seen numerous times before . It is written...
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Good Shoulder Report
Friday, November 20th, 2009Just 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 heal 100% but it will be something I can then plan for.
For the moment I will have Physical Therapy and wear the shoulder sling. Thank you all for your kind get well wishes.
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Pain
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
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 exhaustion, our state of mind and what kind of support we have.Personally, I am thinking of pain in great detail this week because I am fully in the face of it. The MRI I had on Thursday shows that I have truly...
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Uh Oh… No Time For an Injury
Sunday, November 8th, 2009I 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 down to brace my fall and landed on it, straight down on my hand with my elbow locked. The culprit was a rather large duck — a dog toy that was on the staircase.
Roxie and Buster with the Evil Duck Toy
So here I...
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Indelible Bonds
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
I’d like to share with you what it feels like to be so much a part of a family’s birth experience that an almost immediate and indelible bond forms. One that becomes forever etched in each of us. Birth is always magical for me but as with many things, some experiences are more powerful than others. Here is my story from last Tuesday.Elena and David were expecting their first baby and came in for a labor induction as Elena was...
