By Meg Foster In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch says, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” This quote is the essence of empathy—moving beyond mere sympathy and taking on […]
By Meg Foster The word safety invokes a comfort to most. The definition itself suggests such. But to others like me, the wild ones, the word safety has never been a comfort. To us it has been a word that gets in our way, that thwarts our plans, that threatens our need to take risks. […]
By Meg Foster By a stroke of serendipity, I became pregnant around the same time that many of my college friends did. One of those friends had the idea to start a private group online in which we could share our struggles and joys of pregnancy and motherhood. We also expanded the group as more […]
