I sometimes wish being a mother was as glamorous as those black and white, retouched newborn photoshoots.  But then, I suppose, we'd hav...

That pregnant moment when the smell of your own body keeps you up at night. It's officially 6:45 in the morning, but I've been awa...

Being pregnant is an extraordinary experience.  There are so many sensations that one rarely, if ever, feels in non-pregnant life.  Sometime...

It has been snowing for days.  People are complaining on facebook and at the FedEx store.  But I love it.  The past few winters brought but ...

I stared at the onion for a good minute before I sunk the knife deep into the white flesh.  The smell drifted past my nose and settled into ...

This semester was pretty crazy for me.  So crazy I'm in shock that it's over and I'm still alive.  Not only did I get called to ...

Before Andrea was born, I was working 30 hours a week, going to school full-time, and anxiously busy at perfecting my homemaking skills.  Fo...