“The chicken may cross the road, but nobody crosses the chicken.”- Someone who gets me. I don’t like birds. It’s a thing, and everyone around me knows about it. I really didn’t like them as a kid and avoided them at most costs, during my teens my friends would open their birdcage as a prank, and as an adult mother I was extremely relieved to discover that the largest and ugliest of birds are afraid of strollers. (Thanks, Florida vacation of 2010!) I realize that this sounds i

It's the end of the year, the time where I should be getting together all of my birth statistics from 2016, but I'm not going to do that. I don’t even keep track of the stats of the births I attend! It does myself and the agency I work with, Eau Claire Doulas, no good to record how many women I’ve supported who’ve had vaginal deliveries or cesarean births. When I am asked about how many women I have supported who have birthed ‘naturally’, the question doesn't exactly make s

Every day a new baseball fan is born in the United States. For the newborns of Chicago Cubs households, they’ll now grow up hearing the story of their first World Series and how it changed everything. The Cubs play the 7th game of the 2016 World Series tonight, determining if they’ll win or lose the championship. Something they haven’t had the opportunity to do since 1945 when the owner of the Billy Goat Tavern, William Sianis, ‘cursed’ them. They haven’t been to the series