As spring blossoms around us, we’re anticipating an exciting change for our little family. We’re expecting another baby, due at the end of August. It feels entirely different than the first time, mostly because there’s much less research and preparation involved this go around. We already have an amazing team of midwives, who we’re thrilled…
The Christian Science Monitor published my essay “Learning to Listen Again” in their January 31 issue. (It was inspired by a post I wrote here last June.) My world has gotten a lot louder lately. My 2-year-old son, Ezra, just discovered noise. “Airplane, airplane, airplane.” He gestures toward the sky until I repeat, “Airplane.” “Car!”…
Number of hours in a year: 8,760 Number of hours the average American spends sleeping each year (2009): 3,164 Number of hours the average employed American spends working each year (2009): 1,875 Number of hours the average American spends watching television each year (2008): 1,812 Number of hours the average American spends on housework, cooking,…
My article, “Raising Babies in Prison,” which appears in the Winter 2011 issue of YES! Magazine, is now available online. The article begins: Like most new moms, Erika Freeman is enchanted by her baby, nine-month-old daughter Riley. She decorated her daughter’s room in pink, with pictures of princesses and “Princess Riley” on the wall in…
Sometimes I miss the family car, especially when my friends seem to so effortlessly come and go, while my husband and I are plotting out our trips, negotiating whether we can fit all of our groceries in our bike trailer, and opting to stay home at times rather than trek across town after dark in…
I’m surrounded by trucks – dump trucks, tow trucks, garbage trucks. They’re all a few inches long, and they’re motoring up the sides of tables, spinning across the floor, scattered across my son’s bike trailer. It seems ironic that my son is obsessed with motorized vehicles at the same time that my husband and I…
