Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Originally published in LLL of Western Pennsylvania’s PennsyLLL Points West, Summer 2000 You’re a lone Leader, it’s meeting day, and your child is suddenly ill and needs a trip to the doctor. Or your co-Leader has the flu and you are coming down with something and can’t imagine yourself in a roomful of mothers and […]
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Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Originally published in LLL US Western Division’s Connections, January/February 1997 From my dining room window, I look out on the creek that drains into Morris Lake. I love the bleak view out that window of the naked birch trees and thin sheets of ice on the lake. This time of year is when I can […]
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Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Originally published in LLLI’s LEAVEN, November-December 1991 All of you have seen photographs and snapshot montages in LEAVEN of the speakers, Board of Directors, celebrities, and cute babies from past LLLI Conferences. But the trouble with photographs is that they stop the action. At the Miami Beach LLLI Conference, it was a joy to see […]
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Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Originally published in LLL of Western Pennsylvania’s PennsyLLL Points West, March 2000 As you start your Series Meeting discussion, you notice that the woman next to you is having trouble getting her newborn to latch on. As the minutes go by and she continues to struggle with her pillows, positioning, and her baby, she looks […]
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Originally published in LLL of New Mexico’s Enchantment, circa 1987 I was sitting in a Shartlesville, Pennsylvania, doorway holding my stomach and groaning with every breath. “I will never, ever, eat again,†I said. And I meant it. I had just emerged from an all-you-can-eat, family-style restaurant and was not sure I would live to […]
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Written for LLL US Western Division’s Connections, in response to hearing criticism about conference goers who skipped sessions so they could go shopping. 1999. Traveling to the LLLI Conference in Chicago in 1995, I was a country mouse visiting the big city. I was living in a small, remote Alaskan town and had been away […]
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Originally published in LLL of Western Pennsylvania’s PennsyLLL Points West, Autumn 1999 Leaders get frustrated with side conversations during many different kinds of La Leche League meetings. However, there may be a side conversation we’re having ourselves that is every bit as distracting and irritating. It’s through our own body language.
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Originally published in LLLI’s LEAVEN, October-November 1999 There were many conference sounds in the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel during our 16th LLLI Conference. Many of them were recorded during sessions and presentations; you can purchase them in the form of audiocassettes. However, many other sounds were just recorded in the hearts and minds of […]
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Originally published in LLL of New Mexico’s Enchantment, 1985 “Better start boiling water and get some clean sheets—the baby’s coming!†So starts another Hollywood birth, and I’m probably watching it. I never tire of hearing childbirth stories at LLL meetings, so perhaps it should come as no surprise to anyone that I’m such a fan […]
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Originally published in LLLI’s LEAVEN, September-October 1995 Many aspects of the 14th LLLI Conference in Chicago reminded me of Georges Seurat’s painting “Sunday on La Grande Jatte,†people enjoying a Parisian park. Finished by Seurat in 1886, this well-known example of the pointillism technique hangs in The Art Institute of Chicago. Our conference was also […]
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