Camera shy?  More like camera phobic!  Thanks to digital photography I have been able to successfully avoid photos of myself through cropping or simply...
Last week I was reading a book to my 15-month old daughter. I don’t remember which book it was or whether she even sat...
I want to love my body.  Did you hear that?  I want to love my body. This does NOT mean that I want to improve...
When we have babies, our lives totally change and are never the same - our routines, our checkbooks, our hearts  - yet somehow we...
This body. This tired, strong, overworked body. Two boys breathed through this body, stretched skinny baby legs up into its rib cage, made its...
I’m a local doula and childbirth educator, and more importantly for this post, a MOTHER. As part of my Preparation for Birth series, I...
Dear Nora and Maggie, I want to start this letter by reminding you all just how much I love you. I know I tell you...
He was born on the couch in my living room.  I had wanted a VBAC.  In my mind it was planned perfectly with me...
At 18 years old and 95 pounds soaking wet, my belly is where the pudge settled.  It wasn't even pudge, really. Just a slightly fluffy...
For pretty much my whole life I have been the image of "skinny": Long legs, lean torso, and a thin face. Despite being the...
There's no need to be afraid. There's no need to be bashful. That's what I tell myself. What I'm wearing in the photo is no...
I see you there, six with your skinned knees and short hair, chasing after the boys down the street with a skateboard under your arm.   I see you...

In + Around Vermont

Winter in Vermont

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It is late fall and the temperature drops just enough for the precipitation to turn from pestery rain into beautiful, soft, magical snowflakes and...