Being a mom is more labor intensive, time intensive, and emotion intensive than I ever thought possible. When I sit up long hours in the middle of the night feeding Annalise, praying I won’t drop her because I am so very tired, I love her all the more. When I lie in bed crying because […]
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Meet Annalise Ida Kinsinger. Born Tuesday, June 15 at 6:00 A.M. on the dot. (She’s prompt like her daddy.) In the 9 days since her birth, I have been spending 24/7 learning how to be her mommy. Another week, I will write more. Right now, I have no words for the joy that she brings
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Perhaps as part of my nesting instinct during these last weeks of pregnancy–a writers’ version of nesting–I have been attempting to organize and categorize all my old Word documents currently stashed haphazardly on flash drives. Some of what I find is cheesy and lame–me trying to copy other writers I read somewhere and not doing
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New life blooms in my belly. When I panic and worry the life is gone, pretty soon I feel the child moving again. The one thing in the world I am most curious about right now is what the baby looks like. Like me or like Ivan? Other questions soon follow. Will our child be
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Going through some of my essays from the past, I found the one below that I once wrote about Char. I took the original subtitle of my book from this prose-poem. I called the book Turtle Heart: The Story of a Lonely Old Indian Woman and a Shy Little Mennonite Girl. Eventually I changed the
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