I never got around to announcing my first pregnancy on this blog. It’s just as well because at 7 weeks, I miscarried. For weeks now, I’ve been hiding under a rock in my little emotional world. Every time I get to thinking about what’s happened, I crawl back in; but hard though it is, I [...]

I’m losing weight! It’s painfully slow, but it’s visible: My face has definitely slimmed. It might seem like a small victory, but when nothing else seems to be moving much, it’s something. As for my waist, I’ve lost something like 2 inches, though I’m always nervous stating progress by the tape measure — it’s so [...]