They're baaack.....

Welcome to the return of Notes From Home! I began Notes From Home as a weekly blog for my students at the University of Texas back in 1999. Each week, I tried to post some useful and some not-so-useful advice about my course, life at the university, or life in the real world. Sometimes, when it was really late at night and my kids weren't sleeping and my laundry wasn't done, I just posted book recommendations.

When I moved to Rice University in 2005, Notes From Home continued for one semester. And then, like so much else, Notes From Home became a casualty of my (failed) career in academic administration.

Back by popular demand, here is More Notes From Home. A weekly slice of cheesy pie to brighten your Monday.

And now for this week's reading recommendation - I give to you the book I bought almost everyone I know for Christmas: The Midwife by Jennifer Worth. I bought so many copies of it that Amazon banned me from buying more (really - I had to use my husband's account to buy the last copy for my mom). The memoir of a young woman who worked as a midwife in London's east end during the 1950s. The images of healthcare for London's poor during this time reminded me so much of what I have seen in Lesotho and Malawi in the past three years. A funny and moving book about the strength of women.