Older moms have healthy babies every day. Follow your doctor’s orders, educate yourself and stay healthy in mind and body. Google “geriatric pregnancy”—the medical term given to pregnancies involving women over age 35—and you’ll find way too many articles with a negative spin, presenting a laundry list of increased risks…

Tips to help you stay centered and in shape during the Coronavirus lockdown Calm mama, calm baby. That’s the advice my mother responds with every few days when I express worry creeping back up about what’s going on in the world. I’m 25 weeks pregnant with my first child, and…

A new approach to nourishment during pregnancy involves one part smart research, one part commitment and a little bit of letting go. So it’s settled, then. I am “with child.” Daddy-to-be and immediate family told the good news. Hunt for an obstetrician on. …

A short story about the week my baby journey began It’s October, 2019, and I’m just buzzing along, doing my daily Montreal routine—wake up, drink coffee, write articles, make dinner for Hubs, log an hour on the treadmill, shower, rinse, repeat. And then one morning, Halloween to be exact, I…

The Central Park Five, now known as the Exonerated Five, embody the not-so-uncommon American justice system practice of “guilty until proven innocent.” Two of the five men — Dr. Yusef Salaam and Kevin Richardson—made a special appearance at the International Black Film Festival in Montreal this September. They were gracious…

Pablo Picasso said, “The less Art there is in painting, the more painting there is.” Notice how he capitalizes “Art.” My guess is that he refers not to the physical manifestation of creativity, but rather a superficial object to be acquired. Picasso, perhaps the most influential artist of the early…

Originally posted for GoEdison, a kick-ass Denver-based digital marketing agency, on 11/8/16. It never ceases to amaze me how many ultra-productive, pioneering, even masterfully successful businesses continue to leave money on the table by ignoring their own blog. Not only is it a missed opportunity to recruit and keep loyal…

Instead of asking our partners—or ourselves—to agree to a “forever” relationship, let’s focus on today. — About a year ago I started really getting into celery. Yes, those annoyingly crunchy stalks that make it hard to hear yourself think. Never in my life had I ever paid any attention to this stringy vegetable, but all of a sudden I couldn’t get enough. I had to have…

A call for writers to end our incessant list-making in favor of well-crafted sentences. Communication as we know it has been pruned, cropped, repackaged and resold. Letters and phone calls have been overthrown by texts, emails and social media commentary. Bullet points have moved in and taken over all content…