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Turn to the Journalism Page to read the recently added stories about former U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall and U.S. Figure Skating Champion Evan Lysacek.

December 1: My friend Bernice recently published a cookbook that's getting quite a bit of buzz. She was on Sally Jessy Raphael's radio show a few weeks ago and she regularly gives seminars on cooking healthy and cooking with children. Not bad for a cancer survivor who is at least a few years past her 80th birthday! This month I have put in a page with some of her comments and a recipe. If that whets your appetite, you can contact Bernice at 2urhelth@optonline.net. and arrange to get a copy of her book. You can also check out her blog at http://gigistock.blogspot.com

General Update, November 7, 2007--  I cannot believe the summer is over and we are well into the fall. It's cliche to say, where does the time go, but SERIOUSLY where does the time go?? The big news for the last month or so is that we've moved. Twice. We found the perfect house, but it was overrun with rodents and radon and what looked like mold so we passed on that home. Unfortunately we'd already sold our home (in 21 days in this horrid real estate market, so clearly my cleaning and cleaning and cleaning was appreciated) so we had to find some place to live. We did find a house that I love (and in which I am sitting and typing this right now) but it wasn't going to be ready for about 5 weeks after we closed on our house. Luckily a friend of ours was planning to spend some time in France so we rented his house. Unfortunately that meant we had to move TO his house (which is about 20 minutes from our house) and then TO our new house (which is about 5 minutes from our old house.) But we are here and maybe one day I'll get through all the boxes ... but whatever ... I've got a fireplace, a phone, cable internet and my television works great, so I AM HOME!

The buttons on the left will take you to specific information about me, my family, my volunteer efforts, my projects and my work, but the short version is that I'm a journalist, a mom to twins, a public speaker, humorist (really I am, although you probably can't tell from this introduction) and a novelist. I'm currently working on a memoir about my journey to motherhood (read an excerpt by clicking on Works In Progress.) called Double Vision. Although the piece excerpted here is serious, much of the memoir is humorous (intentionally most of the time) because really, if you can't laugh at infertility, you will sit numbly in your bathroom staring at ovulation predictors all day, every day.

The photo above (in the header) is of my daughters, nicknamed Banana and Little Bit (I italicized that because someone ACTUALLY emailed me to ask me why I had chosen such odd names for my daughters!), on their third birthday. I cannot believe that they are somehow managing to grow up, while I maintain my youthful age of 39 (or so.)

So, without further ado ... feel free to look around and, as always, drop me an email and say hello.

Until next month...

- Tracy Rasmussen