The year is 1895 and Pauline Gross, a young seamstress, is scared. Gross knows nothing about the double helix or the human-genome project—such medical triumphs are far in the future. But she does know about a nasty disease called cancer, and it’s running through her family. “I’m healthy [...]
Iron Jawed Angels is one of my all-time favourite films. It’s a beautiful movie – a wonderful tribute to the suffragist movement in the US and to the power humans have to create change. I found myself thinking about those mighty suffragists quite a bit this past week when [...]
read on... →As many of you know, November is National Novel Writing Month. My dear friend, M. has participated in NaNoWriMo madness for the last few years and she’s had nothing but great things to say about it. Personally, I find the space of a month much less daunting than that 3-day [...]
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I’ve just gotten word that today will be a BIG day for midwifery in Nova Scotia!
For many years, midwives in this province have been practicing in an a-legal situation. They have had no support from the provincial government and women who wish to have midwife assisted births have [...]
read on... →That’s me, aboard the tall ship Silva for a sail in Halifax Harbour this past September. I was there to celebrate Two Planks and a Passion Theatre Company’s 15th anniversary and to chat about my involvement with this vibrant force in Canadian theatre.
I [...]
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This seems only fitting for my 100th post at Incidental Pieces…
One of the added features I came up with for TheBirthHouse.com before the launch of the book was The Hysteria Quiz. I thought it would be fun to have a little tongue-in-the-cheeky poke at how doctors [...]
read on... →Today I went to Halifax’s Word on the Street. It was a fab day for all in the new spacious, dry, and hurricane-free digs at Pier 23!
I kicked off my time there with a bit of reading and then a lively Q&A session led by one of my favourite on-the-scene writers, Sue Carter [...]
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There’s one last stop on the Wise Women Blog Tour today…
Judith Lothian, a nurse and childbirth educator with more than 30 years of experience, and co-author of The Official Lamaze Guide, interviews me for the Giving Birth With Confidence Blog. We chat about the restoration of [...]
read on... →From her web site: Sheila Kitzinger.com –
Sheila Kitzinger campaigns for women to have the information they need to make choices about childbirth. She is a strong believer in the benefits of home birth for women who are not at especially high risk. Sheila is also concerned to give a voice to pregnant [...]
News Flash!
I’m thrilled to announce that Karen Brody, playwright and creator of the BOLD project, has chosen The Birth House as the first pick for her BOLD book club.
BOLD’s mission is to get people to start reading books that educate, tell the truth and inspire action. [...]
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When I was a child I loved finding things…a jar of my grandmother's old buttons, a cigar box filled with boy scout badges and river stones, a flouncy party dress pushed to the back of my mother's closet - circa 1955. With every relic I discovered, there came a story. Real or imagined, the tales that surrounded each object were magic, making the 'thing' more immediate, something more than it was before I'd found it.
Fact or fiction, fantastic, joyful or sad, stories make us more than we were before we found them. Welcome to my shoebox of buttons, sealing wax and scribblings.
- posted on 16/05/2012 23:03:49
