I was reading posts on a message board dedictated to women due in February 2006 when one caught my attention. A woman expecting her first baby wrote about being obsessed with miscarrying. She said it is all she thinks about and she can’t sleep at night. Her worst nightmare is to have a missed miscarriage—when […]

Disappointment gnaws at the spinal cord, slowly. A nibble here, a nibble there. Disappointment finds the sugary and most tender part until it hears a snap, licks its chops and paws, and slinks off.

Paralysis is the child of the feast. When small things don’t work out—like being late for a barbeque or finding […]