Fiction, Essay, Photography … Sometimes Vampires
First cherry blossoms of the year spotted in Collingswood, NJ Early in my postpartum life I joked that I was making a list of songs that made me cry, out of love and overbrimming emotion, while singing to my baby. But let's get real: It's all of them, at one time or another. That said,… Continue reading But green is the color of spring!
I am ten weeks postpartum tomorrow. Two and a half months of my sweet little one! I can't tell if it is very smart or very stupid to pair up newborn lockdown with winter quad-demic lockdown and also the coldest, snowiest winter in recent memory. Even this statue in Haddonfield NJ needed to bundle up!… Continue reading Living for Winter Light
The poet Ovid taught me that Metamorphoses make monsters. I thought about these myths and their symbols during my year of writing, and throughout my pregnancy. My body changed and did weird things, and sometimes looked and felt so different that I dissociated for a moment. But then I came back, and embraced the change.… Continue reading What I Wrote in 2024 (and Made in 2025)
I've been pregnant since April and will hopefully deliver while it's still 2024. This has meant some wild hormone fluctuations; sometimes my brain is so foggy I can't concentrate, so I listen to audiobooks while playing a phone game, walking, or doing chores. Some days are crystal-clear and I am laser-focused on a physical book.… Continue reading What I Read in 2024
I am 18 days away from my due date, and according to doctors my baby is head-down, getting ready for birth. We're healthy! I'd like to tell every smug weirdo who has ever been unpleasant about my 20-year vegetarianism that my blood pressure has consistently been 120-over-80 for this pregnancy, but actually, I don't care… Continue reading Last Chance Before Life Change
Laura Eppinger 