travel and comments

I’ve not updated so much the past day or so because I’ve been in transit — I’m now in Israel for the High Holidays. Will write more about that later (since strictly I’m not allowed to be using the computer during Chag anyway), and tell you all about screaming toddlers in airplanes, and how — Continue reading travel and comments

Crossing the Rubicon2: From My Email Box: Recognizing the signs of a stroke

Yesterday

Yesterday, seventeen years ago, I lost a baby. 20 weeks (of a prospective 40 weeks) of pregnancy is the cutoff between “miscarriage” and “stillbirth.” I lost Angel at 21 or 22 weeks. (“Angel” was the name for her that flew into my mind as the anesthesiologist was giving me the epidural to ease the pains Continue reading Yesterday

London afternoon

All of us are fine. Thanks, everyone, for your many emails and comments, etc. All we know, right now, we know from the BBC. Scary how life can go on all around such an event, isn’t it?