I first figured out that I was pregnant as a married graduate student at UPenn. I of course called the insurance folks so that I could be a responsible expectant mother and take my vitamins and follow the fetus’ development. But guess what: UPenn’s student health didn’t cover maternity care! Because what women between theContinue reading “Terry’s Birth”
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Lamu
Today I crossed the channel from mainland Kenya to the old Swahili Island of Lamu with two young Kenyan men. It was their first time visiting the old Swahili town, though I had been a tourist there twenty years ago. I already had a sunburn from going by boat two days ago to the LamuContinue reading “Lamu”
Welcome to America
I left my Paris apartment on the evening of Dec 7th and went to CDG airport to stay at a hotel and get on the plane early enough to get to London Gatwick airport early the next morning so that I would have time to meet my daughter Sadie and get on our Norse AirContinue reading “Welcome to America”
Ol’ Widder Woman
I am presently on a road trip in the wild west with my lovely adult daughter and yesterday Sadie reminded me of the “ol’ widder woman” we were lucky enough to cross paths with on a previous road trip from her childhood….. In the summer of 1998, we drove from Seattle, Washington to Washington, DCContinue reading “Ol’ Widder Woman”
About Time
Is it true that we are just killing time until it kills us? What even is time? Einstein taught us that it truly IS completely relative. But we knew that! Those ten minutes in which you are getting your teeth drilled last a great deal longer than the ten minutes in your bath. Time isContinue reading “About Time”
The View from a Broad 