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Life is a beach
This is my 101st post! With summer winding down, I'm heading into triple digits. I love this time of year because it promises a fresh start. Shopping for school supplies with my daughter Maeve, I like...
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Thanks for the (ability to make) memories
Today is the American Thanksgiving, and I am counting my blessings, which are more numerous than these turkeys. As always, I am grateful to be here for another Thanksgiving. Maeve and I could so easily...
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The mother of all birth stories
Jesus' nativity, the son of God born of a virgin mother, is one of the great mysteries of Christianity. The story we can grasp more easily is of his humble beginnings in a manger. Most people who were...
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Birth Story 2010
Following one topic, childbirth, for an entire year has given me an unusual perspective on what is happening on that front, both here in the United States and also globally. If you ask me, the newly...
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Birth Story’s most popular posts of 2010
Well, go figure. My very most popular post by far this year was one I wrote for Women's History Month that had very little to do with the Birth Story per se. Anne Hutchinson at her trial My top post...
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Birth Story’s first year: My favorite posts
And so we bid adieu to 2010, Birth Story's first year of life. My Birth Story blog began on Jan. 3 of this year, and this is my 151st post, so I came very close to my goal of posting three times a...
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Brancusi’s birthday
Today is the birthday of the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1856-1957). Below is one of his pieces, "The Newborn," part of the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Phildelphia, Pa....
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Reader — The postings have been few and far between lately, I know, and I am sorry. I have been teaching this quarter at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and blogging has been...
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It was 41 degrees Fahrenheit when we got up this morning here in Chicago, but this weekend, the Memorial Day weekend, marks the unofficial beginning of summer in the United States. Officially, it's...
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Happy Mother’s Day!
Mother's Day seems like a good time to make a resolution to get back into more regular posting on Birth Story. So let it begin! With Nora on the couch This is a picture of my daughter Nora, who is now...
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