“Start where you are.  Use what you have.  Do what you can”  Arthur Ashe

for months now - years, even - I have been yearning for a website.  A place to put all the stuff I care about, all the links to groovy new research about babies and brain development that land in my mailbox daily.  Now that it is nearly here I feel a bit like the lady who’s been dreaming of a flash new house, and on move-in day I’m realising I don’t have a clue how to arrange the furniture.  Or whether I have enough furniture.  Or too much.  Or something. 

In other news: big congratulations to my girlfriend Jen in San Francisco, whose beautiful baby girl is here.  Welcome to our world, Ava. 

Timely, then, that the link I wanna share today is to a splendid and thought provoking (& free!) book about mothering.  Information about this, and a place to download, can be found here

(OK, so that was my very first hyperlink in my very first blog page.  so far, so good.)