Winner of the "Arms Wide Open" giveaway . . .

. . . is Jennifer, commenter number 5! Jennifer, email me at annetegtmeier [at] gmail [dot] com with your snail mail address and we'll send it off to you posthaste. (If I don't hear from you within a week, we'll draw another number, to be fair.)



It seems especially meaningful to share a midwife's memoir as we memorialize another.

Thanks to all my readers for taking in our sharing of Briana over the past week. It's something that has affected us quite a bit, so I appreciate having an especially relevant place to share it. I'm hoping to get the grand finale to my previa story up next, but sometimes life and all it encompasses - including death - takes precedence.

Briana Blackwelder (at my son's birth) from David Perry on Vimeo.

Thank you for bearing witness.