I’m in trouble. The editors of The Hudson Valley Magazine, a wonderful, important publication in the New York Metropolitan area, chose to include me in their annual People to Watch in 2016 profiles. So why would that signal trouble? Because gifts call for more courage. They are en-courage-ments to show up more fully for the […]

What better way to start the year than knowing how much we are needed. The Journal of the American Medical Association is doing a great job letting us, awesome fertileheared Visionary mamas, know just that. Validating in a big way that our children are counting on us. All of us. Here’s the story – A […]

I mean You! Stepping into the season of celebrations I want to first tell you that I LOVE YOU. You! I don’t mean the generic anonymous “readers of my blog.” I mean You. The You I am or have been in relationship with. The You whose lows and highs of the motherhood journey I’ve witnessed week after week […]

The power of the Shame Orphan My last blog was about the courage to speak up for what we value, which appears to be a topic that may need a bit more unpacking.  One of the stunning, generous comments by H. inspired the continuation of that dialogue. This is part of the comment: “Also, thanks […]

 Who is She? I would like to turn off all news channels, go hiking on this lovely day before my birthday. I would like to erase from memory that image of a river of blood which one of the witnesses of the Paris massacre described seeing from the window of his apartment. But She is […]