Exploiting My Baby : A Blog by Teresa Strasser

*  A Note: People who write letters to the editor to their small town newspapers are generally crazy old coots. That may be true of my dad, but he makes some solid points nonetheless. As those who have heard me talk about my dad ad nauseam on the radio already know, he was an auto mechanic [...]

This is almost like “found poetry,” if you found a really depressing and sparsely written poem. Here is a verbatim history of my baby-related Google searches for the month of March, my third month of pregnancy. How to describe obsessive, all-consuming anxiety? Like they say in Comp 101: Show don’t tell.