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Am I Crazy to Think I’ll Get Any Work Done After the Baby is Born?
The Maine island we live on is in transition from winter to spring. Ice and snow have given way to alternating drizzle and sunshine. Frost heaves (out here we call them “Thank you ma’ams!”) are...
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Interview With Mara Altman–Who’s Still Not Sure She Wants a Baby
It took my husband and I seven years of cohabitation to decide to get married, and another year to decide that we wanted to have a baby. In her newest Kindle Single, “Baby Steps,” author and comedienne...
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Sometimes, It Takes an Island to Have a Baby
Living on an island in Maine–unreachable other than by boat, plane, or helicopter–has its challenges and its pluses. For every moment of feeling like I live in a Manhattan-sized fish bowl–for every...
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Why I (Mostly) Love My Post-Baby Body
Two weeks and one day ago, I gave birth to my daughter. It was a pretty amazing experience, all the way up to the point when she was born. Then, while I was luckily distracted by holding my little girl...
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What Oh What Will My Parenting Style Be?
Now that I’ve been a parent for a month, I’m hoping to see evidence of an emerging parenting style. Am I an Attachment Parent? Or am I Detached? What are my philosophies on where, when, and how the...
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Is It Too Early to Call My Baby a Girl?
I don’t like surprises. That’s how I explained our decision to find out, as early as possible, if we were having a boy or a girl. And as soon as the verdict was in, out it went on Facebook and …...
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How Becoming a Mom Forced Me to Face My Fear of Snakes (And So Much More)
Like a lot of primates, I really don’t like snakes. In Maine, we only have non-venomous, ecologically beneficial, pest-eating garter snakes and rat snakes, but the unexpected sight of one gliding...
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My Island Family Surprised Me With a Simchat Bat
Lately, being Jewish on North Haven–the small island in Maine where we live–has felt like a non-issue, though I still tend to think of myself as the only one. Which made it all the more surprising...
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How Do I Stop Feeling Guilty About My Sleepless Baby?
Sleep, baby, sleep. Penrose is 4 months old. She babbles, laughs, grabs her feet, rolls over, bangs on her xylophone, and does not want to go to sleep. I should have known that I was setting myself up...
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For The First Time in Nine Years, I’m Not Going “Back to School”
As soon as I discovered I was pregnant at the end of last summer, I set the wheels in motion to take a half-year sabbatical from my job teaching music, theatre and English at Maine’s smallest K-12...
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Why I’ve Stopped Taking So Many Pictures of My Baby
When my in-laws came this spring to meet Penrose, they brought with them a DVD containing several months worth of baby videos of my husband. They were taken in 1981, when household-use video cameras...
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Baby-Led Weaning is Pretty Much the Best Thing Ever
I love to cook and I love to feed people. At the theatre commune where I interned during college, I was the one who baked the vegan cookies for the Tuesday night “Shapenote Sings.” The happy stress of...
View ArticleWhy I (Mostly) Love My Post-Baby Body
Two weeks and one day ago, I gave birth to my daughter. It was a pretty amazing experience, all the way up to the point when she was born. Then, while I was luckily distracted by holding my little...
View ArticleWhat Oh What Will My Parenting Style Be?
Now that I’ve been a parent for a month, I’m hoping to see evidence of an emerging parenting style. Am I an Attachment Parent? Or am I Detached? What are my philosophies on where, when, and how the...
View ArticleIs It Too Early to Call My Baby a Girl?
I don’t like surprises. That’s how I explained our decision to find out, as early as possible, if we were having a boy or a girl. And as soon as the verdict was in, out it went on Facebook and into...
View ArticleHow Becoming a Mom Forced Me to Face My Fear of Snakes (And So Much More)
Like a lot of primates, I really don’t like snakes. In Maine, we only have non-venomous, ecologically beneficial, pest-eating garter snakes and rat snakes, but the unexpected sight of one gliding...
View ArticleMy Island Family Surprised Me With a Simchat Bat
Lately, being Jewish on North Haven–the small island in Maine where we live–has felt like a non-issue, though I still tend to think of myself as the only one. Which made it all the more surprising...
View ArticleHow Do I Stop Feeling Guilty About My Sleepless Baby?
Sleep, baby, sleep. Penrose is 4 months old. She babbles, laughs, grabs her feet, rolls over, bangs on her xylophone, and does not want to go to sleep. I should have known that I was setting myself up...
View ArticleFor The First Time in Nine Years, I’m Not Going “Back to School”
As soon as I discovered I was pregnant at the end of last summer, I set the wheels in motion to take a half-year sabbatical from my job teaching music, theatre and English at Maine’s smallest K-12...
View ArticleWhy I’ve Stopped Taking So Many Pictures of My Baby
When my in-laws came this spring to meet Penrose, they brought with them a DVD containing several months worth of baby videos of my husband. They were taken in 1981, when household-use video cameras...
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