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Do Twins Run In The Family?

First Published @HuffingtonPost Sometimes you just want to stand in line at the grocery store and not have to explain your vaginal history to a total stranger. I’d hazard to say that at least seven times a week for my thirty-five week pregnancy (that’s 245 times), distant acquaintances, well-intentioned friends, and strangers on streets, in […]

Gratitude In A Warring World

First published @Truthdig Even in San Francisco where Columbus Day has been renamed Indigenous People’s Day, progressive parents are faced with the awkwardness of how to celebrate Thanksgiving, our historically fictionalized holiday. Do we mourn the slaughter of the Native Americans or celebrate the rise of colonial European capitalism? Or do we celebrate the dysfunctional […]