Not Sure What to Title This

About three months ago, I wrote a "final post," which was a bit overdramatic--the exhausted writer, up at 3am working on her many projects, injecting a little too much pathos into her blogging. I'd just welcomed a beautiful baby girl into the family, joining our two-and-a-half year old son and my husband and me. It was a heady, but stressful time, and I was just embarking on a book project. I thought if I went too long between posts, my readers would grow annoyed, then leave for good. But after that last post, so many people e-mailed me wishing me well, including several who said, hey, we're moms, too. Don't sweat it if you let a few weeks go between posts.

With my book project well underway (I just received a Minnesota State Arts Board grant for it!), and my daughter nearing six months old, I turn again to this blog. In the hopes that my readers will forgive periods of silence, I will continue writing about my adventures in the toxic and nontoxic worlds. I'll probably be reimagining the blog as well. When I started the blog a couple years ago, it was designed mainly as an extension of a book project I was working on, titled Science for Sale: Politics, Profit, and the Manipulation of Science. That project was to have been a journalistic account of the machinations corporations and government use to thwart science and keep toxic products on the market. But as I became a mom, the blog took on a slightly different tone--one of an individual who was struggling to understand what products were safe for her family, using science as her benchmark.

I'll continue this blog in that spirit but I anticipate some changes, perhaps even a blog name change. We'll see. In the meantime, thanks so much for your support. I look forward to posting again.