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With apologies for a long silence we are pleased to deliver to you a beautiful dispatch from a particularly enlightened mother on one of the more trying episodes of parenthood. Cold and flu season is upon us, and whether or not we enforce our prophylactic measures perfectly, vaccinations and clean hands and keeping ears covered seem not to hold all of the magical power this year I expect from them. So fear not, read on, stay strong, and just remember: this too will pass.
I am a self-diagnosed sleep addict. I collect REM hours like they are going into a savings account. - Patrice Heins
Olympia Monthly is proud to present you with the first edition of our advice + etiquette column, DEAR DIANA. This month’s question is apt indeed for our resident goddess of childbirth, the moon, and the hunt. Also, knowing how babies appear to bend time while you’re looking at them, we also think it’s an appropriate Q for our Time Zones Issue. We hope you enjoy...
In February, pregnant and in bed with a cold, I fell head first into my first Persephone Book*. One of the small press’s handful of Classics, The Home-Maker was originally published in 1924. The author, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, was a New England novelist (and wife, and mother). And rather than a feminist, a self-declared advocate for children. Ninety years later, her message remains sweet as ever.
