A Natural Scientist

Before you all expire from shock, clutching your pearls, let me add: I am also entirely pro-choice and it is a major deal-breaker when I vot...

You've been warned... 40 weeks!  ( 40-weeks-ish .   Being as, well, yeah .)  Here, let me summarize: MISERABLE. Still with the contr...

I started out this unexpected pregnancy by losing ten pounds.  Not on purpose; I was too sick to eat. Since then I've gained back the ...

My mother is an expert worrier.  Just last week, she went all the way from how I'm having an occasional uncomfortable contraction (okay,...

It's amazing how little time severe, chronic pain takes to send me into a spiral of fear, depression, and anger.  (About three days, in ...

Oh, Internets.  Working!  It's like someone expects me to show up somewhere else on time  and pay attention!  My students are hilarious ...

Here is a randomly assorted collection of thoughts: Pregnancy is easier to handle without severe chronic pain and I don't care how gra...

Our garden is lovely.  We picked a ton of leafy green things today and I managed to eat a chard omelette for lunch while C. fed my children ...

First, why does anyone think this is okay to ask?  I think I asked my dear friend R once - but she's one of my closest friends and we...

Said to me, and I said nothing:  "I have a migraine, and the only thing that ever helps is Excedrin , and I can't take   anythin...

A while ago, Dr. S asked me if my old lab had a nickname for me .  "Not one they'd say to my face," I said.  (I had, I regret ...

I'm sure the first burning question in all your minds, on learning that the Duchess of Cambridge (i.e. Kate Middleton) is expecting , wa...

A mom-friend recently said to me, "You always dress so modestly!"  I was taken aback, because after that unfortunate frum period, ...

Today: I pulled up half the garden (the dead half) and finally put up all our mezuzot, while Dr. S made the third custom threshold (router! ...

In brief: I was the youngest person at the ophthalmologist by a good 30 years, and I probably have the best vision of anyone they've see...

I strongly suspect that weird-double-vision thing is coming back.  The constant scintillating scotomata and the never-ending headache might...

Maybe it's the weather: something to which I am violently allergic is blooming, so the outdoors is torture.  Maybe it's the two-we...

Last night: searingly painful, wake you up three times in the middle of the night headache. First sign of weird-double-vision-thing: seari...

My midwives, quite sensibly, want me to go see my PCP for asthma management. This would be a better idea if I had seen my actual PCP in t...

You have been warned. Look, I am grateful that I'm having an uncomplicated pregnancy healthy baby blah blah blah.  However, even if a...