Mamaphonic

In the beginning I had no idea what I was getting into, either with mothering or with writing. I used my old grad school computer, and then when it died, my partner’s lap-top, for long letters to my best friend about the raucous world of pregnancy when we first moved here for my partner’s new job. When Nora Jade was born, I scrupulously recorded her pregnancy and birth story, then her newborn story, and soon got the idea to write a newsletter for our extended family called “The Nora News.