archives, Children, Family History, mom, special needs kids, Uncategorized, women's history
A college bestie and I had babies the same year. We had always wanted to be groovy hippie mamas together! You probably already know that I am NOT the chill earth mother I had imagined. When my kid came 16 weeks early, I had already shifted into overdrive, with a...
Children, Family History, history, Prematurity, special needs kids
Like so many who heard her, I was blown away by Amanda Gorman. And the next morning she. was. everywhere. And I’m thrilled for her–and us! In my own kid-related corners of the interwebs, I read “Amanda Gorman, Youth Poet Laureate, has speech and auditory...
Children, Family History, mom, Oral History, Prematurity, special needs kids, women's history
“You were going clink clink clink, and I was going push push push!” That’s how I laughingly describe New Year’s Eve 2006, and it is true! And it is the very tip of the ice berg — because she was full term. Our first child stayed behind in...
I spent 18 years as “archivist and senior research scholar” at an academic science library, actively trying to add women to the historical record and looking for the women who were already included almost accidentally. I have degrees in women’s history and cultural theory — the latter means that I see the cultural value of everyday practices such as food, clothing, hobbies, and domestic arrangements. Non-famous people matter.