Circumcision Pros and Cons: One Mom’s Regret
There has been a tremendous amount in the news lately about the pros and cons of circumcision. In New York City, Orthodox Jewish leaders are vowing not to comply with a new requirement that they get...
View ArticleProject Discover Ashland Place 4: Vietnamese Food, Anyone?
If you’ve never been to Ashland, Oregon, our city of some 20,000 residents, you’re in for a treat. Nestled in a valley surrounded by mountains, clean, friendly, Ashland is as scenic as it is safe....
View ArticleI’m So Nervous I Might Vomit On Your Shoes
“So what’ya in for?” The 40-something aesthetician rested a hand on my shoulder, her southern accent chummy. “Television interview.” “Television!” she squealed. “That’s so exciting!” I didn’t feel...
View ArticleWomen Against Women: How the Media Denigrates Moms
Anyone else tired of reading articles where women denigrate each other, name call, sling mud, and pit women against women? Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Today.com reported this morning that women...
View ArticleAnimal Wise: How Animals Think and the Scientists Who Study Them
I was astounded to read in Virginia Morell’s brand new book, Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures, that scientists once believed that animals did not feel emotions. We have...
View ArticleOur Little Boy’s Birth Story by Marisa Soboleski
Marisa has generously agreed to share the birth story of her son, born late March in her home in Vermont with no midwife or medical professional present. Marisa and I met at a playgroup in Ashland,...
View ArticleJust the Facts, Ma’am: A Professional Discusses the Importance of Fact Checking
Most people don’t realize that while magazine articles are carefully combed over, fact checking for books is up to the author and often not routinely done. I first met Melissa Chianta when she was the...
View ArticleWhen Obstetricians Hate Homebirth Midwives, Birth Becomes Less Safe For Everyone
In the years I’ve spent researching and writing about birth and newborns, I’ve interviewed doctors, midwives, health care professionals, nonprofit administrators, government officials, corporate...
View ArticleUltrasound Exposure and Autism: Dr. Manuel F. Casanova, M.D., Cautions...
I interviewed Dr. Manuel Casanova, M.D., the Gottfried and Gisela Kolb Endowed Chair in Outpatient Psychiatry and a Professor of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology at the University of Louisville, in...
View ArticleHow to Have a Positive Pregnancy: 6 Moms Share Their Secrets
Last week I was working on a positive pregnancy article for BabyZone. It was so much fun to research and write that I wasn’t ready to let the topic go once I submitted it to my editor. You’ll have to...
View ArticleBook Publicity 2.0: why I’m on a book tour in cyberspace
My fifth book comes out tomorrow. “That’s so exciting!” several friends–who are not writers–and one very supportive family member have been saying. My writer friends have a different reaction. “Prepare...
View ArticleThe Great Mother’s Day Giveaway
Not to be a curmudgeon, but I don’t really like Mother’s Day. I like it when the kids bustle around to make me breakfast in bed but these days I’m up hours before two of our four and I inevitably end...
View ArticleMy Mom Died Almost a Year and a Half Ago and I’m Still Sad: The Death of a...
Yesterday Athena came tentatively into my office, sat down on the couch where I was working, and sighed. “What’s the matter?” I asked. “Nothing,” Athena humphed. But tears trickled out of the corner of...
View ArticleDo You Want a Midwife or a Doctor to Birth Your Book? A Push For Roanna...
When I brought Roanna Rosewood a home-cooked meal after the birth of her third baby, I barely knew her. Our children went to preschool together and I saw Roanna in passing in the rush at drop off in...
View ArticleAuthor Support: 7 Ways to Help a Friend Who’s Just Written a Book
Whether you are one, you know one, or you want to be one, every author needs support. You’ve always wanted to write a book but were afraid to try? Forget about the anxiety that you might suffer from...
View ArticleWhere You’ll Find Me This Week: In Boston!
“Will you be eating clam chowder?” A friend asked when I mentioned I was on my way to Boston. Chowda here I come. On Thursday, May 9th at 7 p.m. Back Pages Books in Waltham will be hosting the official...
View ArticleCooking With Kids: How Your 3-Year-Old Can Help In The Kitchen
“I need some help in here,” I call from the kitchen. My older girls are doing their homework. My 9-year-old son is pouring over the Dungeons and Dragons Master’s Guide. “I’ll help you Mommy!” My three...
View ArticleAutism Is My Problem: Report From AutismOne
“The doctor just dismissed my concerns,” a mom of three sons told me. “He said, ‘Mrs. G., nothing’s wrong with your son. He’s a boy. He’s just developing slower, he’ll be fine.’” Mrs. G. knew her son...
View ArticleHow Do You Know You’re Pregnant?
“How do u know ur pregnant?” a friend texted me the other day, just after I read an article in the Washington Post about a runner mom who went to the ER with what she thought might be a ruptured disk...
View ArticleA Mom’s Reflection on Pregnancy and Childbirth: Betrayed by a System that...
Vanessa Wainwright, who is 30 years old and lives in Virginia, gave birth to her first son in 2008 and her second son in 2011. She has generously and bravely agreed to let me publish her birth story,...
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