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Well, we are still here. The days drag on though I have more things to do than ever. I am now making face masks by the dozen. A friend has j...

I am going to veer off from my usual topics here and post a very personal story that I want to share. The Tattooed Lady or We Are S...

Love in the time of Corona 3/30/2020 #3 What people tell me We are part of an elite group; people whom other people think they can unload...

Laboring Alone: from the link  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/parenting/coronavirus-labor-birth.html   Hospitals  Bar Partners Becau...

Friday night It is amazing what other people resort to in these times. One friend finished a novel. Another writes poems. I write because (...

Love in the Time of Corona* *a take-off from the book  Love in the Time of Cholera  ( Spanish :  El amor en los tiem/podcasts/pos del cóle...

I wonder ... and brain freeze. I am part of a wonderful women writers' group. About ten of us, give or take a few, meet every month...

Pope: Midwives might have the most noble of all professions OSSERVATORE ROMANO | AFP Kathleen N. Hattrup  | Jan 21, 2020 Francis ...

Rewriting the Bucket List It is way overdue. Seventeen years later and it is definitely time. When I turned 50 my mother no longer knew...

excerpts from my talk in July in Romania Since the 1990s, C-sections have more than tripled globally.  C-sections now outnumber vaginal ...