Labor and delivery are a very strange thing. As an observer I am torn. Usually, no-scratch that, more than usually, 99.9% of the time I don't wish pain on suffering on anyone. But when babies are over due and the Mother is not comfortable anymore, I DO wish pain and suffering would start. Is it wrong for me to mentally poke a hole in the amniotic sac? Living with an overdue pregnant woman is like living with a ticking time bomb. We never know when she'll go off. Things have started now. The sac has been punctured. Soon I will be a Grandmother. I aspire to be half as good as the two Grandmothers that I had. I had some awesome Grandmothers in my life and they set the bar real high.
Time Of The Lotus Bloom
Now is the season for the blooming of American lotus. The flowers near shore stand higher above the water line than the flowers in deeper wa...
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A yellow rail, one of THE MOST ELUSIVE birds around, sound like a manual typewriter. And if you're too young to know what a manual ty...
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I received a gift from Offspring #1 - a collection of lectures on compact disk about Medieval Heroines in History and Legend. The speaker is... -
Today I was home quite a bit and saw a plethora of birds in my yard including two "first of the year" birds at opposite ends of...
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