Erdrich, Louise, “The Blue Jay’s Dance: A Birth Year” (Harper Collins 1995)

Every birth is profoundly original and yet plotted a billion times, too many times. We move into the narrative with …

Erdrich, Louise, “The Blue Jay’s Dance: A Birth Year” (Harper Collins 1995)

Erdrich, Louise, “The Blue Jay’s Dance: A Birth Year (Harper Collins 1995)

Whatever else I do, when it comes to pregnancy I am my physical self first, as are all of us …

Williams, Terry Tempest, “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place” (Vintage 2001)

What is it about the relationship of a mother that can heal or hurt us? Her womb is the first …