Childbirth
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Title Sparring
I am obsessed with book titles and how some really strange, overlong and obscure misnomers slip through the editing process. I have a bone to pick with these titles I recently found in a few minutes searching for self-help and do-it-yourself books on the library catalog. Great books with ambiguous titles can really put me… Continue reading
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An Unfinished Life
We all start out so damn sure, thinking we’ve got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we’d never leave our bedrooms. I’ve had a plethora of women in my life expecting children. Some married, some not, some engaged, some first… Continue reading
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Ricki Lake: Birth Advocate
In early 2008, I attended a screening of Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein’s documentary, The Business of Being Born. Ricki Lake was there to introduce the film, and you could tell that the film was a passion project for her. While this may not be common knowledge, Ricki Lake, actress and former talk show host,… Continue reading