Here you'll find current musings, as well as the archives from two blogs of yesteryear: YoungMarriedMom and What I Learned While Writing a Novel. Please comment and share. We love well when we are in conversation with one another. 

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A New York State of Mind, Indeed

A year ago, I was one of only two pregnant people I knew—and the other lived 900 miles away.  About this time last year, through friends of friends, we met another pregnant couple, and before we knew it we were moving to Brooklyn, the baby capital of New York City, where we met even more […]

May 23, 2011

Brooklyn, Faith, Marriage, Modern Perspectives, Motherhood, Young Married Mom

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Dear Jacob VIII

Dear Jacob, I didn’t intend to write these letters to you on any sort of schedule.  Yet I just realized that I’ve written you about once a month up until now.  In the past week, though, you achieved some major milestones that I want to record, so I’m writing a bit sooner than you might […]

May 3, 2011

Modern Perspectives, Parenthood, Young Married Mom

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Let’s Do the Time Warp Again!

Sorry, Rocky Horror Picture Show fans.  There will be no costumes, late-night theater events, or yelling at a fictional woman named Janet in this post.  Just your run-of-the-mill contemporary perspective on child-rearing in New York City . . .   They say time flies, especially in the first year of a baby’s life.  I’m sure […]

March 1, 2011

Parenthood, Young Married Mom

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