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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
How I Spent My Summer Vacation My summer was split between Being Pregnant But Not Letting People Know (too soon), and then Being Pregnant And Having People Know. At work, sometimes I hauled boxes of yoga mats around, or taught kiddos lessons in a community garden. When I didn't teach in the garden, I prepped… Continue reading Three Months of Life
June had a beautiful start, but its last two weeks have been and will be lost to a long heatwave. Water ice has never been more appropriate! It comes with lots of sinus headaches, and fatigue. And longing to be outside in the sun, but staying inside to do yoga instead. Well, I still like… Continue reading Beating the Heat (Or, the heat beats me)
How is June so gorgeous?! It's also been so busy, I have whiplash. We started the month as guests at a really fun wedding. Seen from the road: Then spent the second weekend of the month at a work conference RE: civic engagement on college campuses. I'd never been to Oberlin, OH before. We drove… Continue reading June on the Road
I'm a little more than halfway through Shirley by Charlotte Brontë, and this week I got to a part where the narrator described the month of May 1812 in Yorkshire: The early part of that May, as we have seen, was fine, the middle was wet; but in the last week, at change of moon,… Continue reading Symmetry