In my last blog post, I mentioned I was taking a poetry class focusing on women and how their bodies react to and carry trauma. My body has been dragging mine around since February 2014 and I’ve only now been…
Tag: prematurity
Trauma
A few days ago, I found myself back in the radiology department of the hospital where I gave birth to my premature daughter, a harrowing experience I wrote about three years ago in a blog titled “The Story Of A…
The Irony Of Time
I’ve often wondered what a midlife crisis would look like—and when it would happen. As a young adult, I pictured an abrupt, bold, seemingly catastrophic event during a specific time in one’s life—somewhere around the 50-year mark—that comes roaring in…
Ignorance Is Bliss
Sometimes when I really think about myself as a mom (and how I know nothing), my mind wanders back to when my daughter was a week old. She was a preemie and had just spent a week in the NICU,…