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Tarry means to linger in expectation. Join us as we celebrate women of a certain age who want to live with intention and experience real joy; savoring the next stage of life.
Keep Sharp by Sanjay Gupta, MD
My mom gave me Dr. Sanjay Gupta's book, Keep Sharp, about brain health on Mother's Day last year. Thanks, Mom? I'm glad she did because I'm at the age where I can still take preventative actions and catch the signs of cognitive decline early -- maybe even decades...
Keep Sharp by Sanjay Gupta, MD
My mom gave me Dr. Sanjay Gupta's book, Keep Sharp, about brain health on Mother's Day last year. Thanks, Mom? I'm glad she did because I'm at the age where I can still take preventative actions and catch the signs of cognitive decline early -- maybe even decades before they present. If you can get through Part I about the anatomy and science of the brain, which is interesting but a little dense, you'll get to the action part. Concrete steps...
Eleuthera!
April 2015 Day 5 in this beautiful place. There's some things I've learned about vacationing with little kids. It's not a vacation. I'm not...
Doing nothing.
I want to do so many things. I make a lot of lists. I wake up and jot down to-dos in my planner (yes, I still have a paper day planner). Exercise!...
Baby Pippa Bird, Part II
Continued from Part I, recap: I was at Saint John's. I had the dreaded Hep lock in place and they were monitoring the baby for 45 minutes before...
Baby Philippa is here! Part One
Baby Philippa Blair Bird was born early on Wednesday, June 25th, just after midnight. This is my birth story. Dum dum. (Trying to make the Law &...
How Old Do You Feel?
I was at my book club last week and the conversation strayed from the book we were discussing, as it often does, to kids, child rearing, childbirth...
Quick Mulligatawny Soup
We had soaked a boatload of chickpeas to make hummus and crunchy garbonzos but there were still so many leftover so I found this soup recipe in Mark...
Sleep Training Part II; The Dream Feeds
Dream feeding basically means feeding your baby while they're asleep. You beat them to the punch so they stay asleep longer. I had always fed...
Sleep Training
I was getting to the point where I was beginning to feel insane. I had deep circles under my eyes and I never felt fully awake during the day. I'd...
Cloth Diapers; the Lowdown
Cloth diapering gets a bad rap for being really gross and time consuming. There is definitely a learning curve to figure out what works best...
