Word: ashe
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More precisely, it was as if a dormant volcano had just erupted. Nobody has a clue to what the new landscape is going to look like when the ash settles--like how much you will be shelling out for your tunes, though at first it's less likely to involve micropayments (99[cents] per Morissette single) and more likely to be subscription-based services ($9.99 a month for an Alanis buffet...
...Bunting Fellows Poetry Reading took place on April 2, in the Cronkhite Living room on Ash Street, and featured the two poets Natasha Trethewey and Brenda Shaughnessy. Each poet has recently published her first book, Domestic Work and Interior With Sudden Joy, respectively. Trethewey read first. Her poems dealt, from many points of view, with a woman in a photograph projected on a screen for the audience. The woman was a prostitute, photographed in Storyville in 1912. Trethewey’s poems reconstructed a life around this woman, superimposing emotions and experience onto the subject images. Her reading style...
Turner, speaking to about 300 employees at a retirement party for CNN anchor Bernard Shaw, reportedly noticed ashes on an employee's forehead in honor of Ash Wednesday...
Individual doulas follow their own routines, and Guralnick includes two pre-natal visits with a couple to get acquainted and go over options. In a meeting in the Suris' apartment--Ash's first with the doula --Guralnick provides the couple with documents and reviews topics like pain medication and various interventions that can be used during labor and delivery. Debra sits on the massive 75-in. ball to get accustomed to how it feels. (Women in labor often find the ball more comfortable than a chair.) She guides them through massage techniques and positions that ease labor pain, demonstrating...
...thought you were here to do my job," says Ash with a laugh. His comment raises a pressing issue: If a doula is providing all this physical and emotional support for the woman, what's Dad supposed to do? While Ash is relieved that Guralnick will be there, many birth fathers feel a bit wary and even threatened by the news that their wives want special help from another nonmedical person. Good doulas make fathers feel more involved and more useful at a stressful time...