Grandma & Grandpa

Editor’s Note
November 2009

What’s Really Important

On Oct. 15, 2009, the nation stood still as a weather balloon drifted across Colorado, ostensibly with a six-year-old boy trapped inside.

Oh to be eight again…

To march from room to room clapping my hands under each raised leg. 

To go a weekend without brushing my hair.

Several years ago, a New York Times Magazine article drew fire for suggesting that highly education women are “opting out” of work to care for their children.

Several years ago, a New York Times Magazine article drew fire for suggesting that highly education women are “opting out” of work to care for their children.

Hormone balancing is not an exact science: it requires both careful assessment and customized treatment. That's because your hormone response is as unique as your fingerprints.

“You’re a wreck,” the doctor pronounced. “Do you feel normal?”

The question took me by surprise. What did he mean by “normal”? I hadn’t felt “normal” for about as long as I could remember, which is why I was sitting in his office, unresponsive and confused. What I wanted to tell him, but couldn’t choke out the words, was that I had felt this way so long that I did not know what “normal” was anymore..

Instead, I described how abnormal I was feeling.