Hometown

by Michele Feltman Strider

The experience of giving birth is impossible to describe to anyone who hasn’t been through it and unnecessary for anyone who has. As a young, healthy woman, my childbirth experience was essentially by-the-book, which is to say, not something a sane person would choose to do a second time.

Most of us spend a lot more time on this earth being old and ugly than young and pretty, so you better enjoy it while you can, darlin’.”