From the Days of Pacing to the Greatest Joys
April 12, 2026 Dear Little Sophia, Where did the time go? Of course, it doesn’t make sense to ask you a question like that: you’ll read this in 18 or 14 years and you won’t feel the long gap between…
Category Before You Arrived
Our lives, your mother’s pregnancy, our waiting, anxiety, wonder.
When the Levee Breaks (The Clock Starts)
January 10, 2026 Dear Sophia, It’s still dark in the early morning, and with my hand palming your mother’s belly like a basketball, I can feel you kicking. Are you exercising in there? Are you expressing yourself? Your mom walked…
The Waiting Game, as So Many Journeys Converge
January 9, 2026 Dear Sophia, Got up a bit late, holding your mother, talking to her, feeling grateful to be with her. Everything happening now is because of her. I was feeling the feelings a moment ago, as I tried…
How a Mother’s Anxiety Can Lead to a Home Vasectomy
January 8, 2026 Dear Sophie-to-be, Your very pregnant mother was feeling unfamiliar pain last night, and that made her anxious. Just because she didn’t know what was happening. She felt it again in the middle of the night but she…