Lately, our almost-seven-year-old daughter has taken to nursing her baby doll at the dinner table.  “She’s hungry,” our daughter proclaims.  “I can feed her even while I’m eating!” Oh, how many evening meals I spent doing the very same thing.  Good...

If, like me, you have recently completed taking (or are preparing to take) the GRE–the Graduate Record Examination–you may be asking the same question I am:  what, exactly, is the point? ETS, the nonprofit company that creates and delivers over 50...

I wrote this post about six weeks ago.  Even as I look back at what has transpired since formalizing our plans to move to the San Francisco Bay area, etc., etc., a lot has continued to happen.  I would love to have been able to continue my 3-4...

Last Friday, on NPR’s Morning Edition, I was gifted with the chance to relive a tiny bit of my childhood.  I got to hear recordings from the original Hundred Acre Wood adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Writer David Benedictus has been granted the...

Check out this awesome post on the history of midwifery.