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Why I Love the Fall

Yesterday the air was cool. We all wore thermals, my husband lit a fire, I woke up and baked zucchini muffins, later in the day made escarole soup, and for dinner, we had a hearty vegetable stew. We sat on the porch in the evening, and the smell of the fire filled the...

Thinkin’ Pink and My First Mammogram

Last September, I had my first mammogram. I was 33 years old, and typically they want you to get a baseline at 40, but I had some weirdness happening with “the gals”, and I didn’t want to mess around. So my ob/gyn referred me. I have to admit, I kind of thought my...

When It’s Time to Say Goodbye

Of all the changes one goes through during pregnancy and after, I think there was only one that bugged me. Hips spreading, waistline disappearing- none of that stuff bothered me. In fact, I wore it like a badge of honor. How excited I was to bring little lives into...