In September 1944 Edgar Krasa boarded a train of cattle wagons with 999 others. Jews from Subcarpathian Rus undergo a selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Prisoners on a death march from Dachau move towards the south along the Noerdliche Muenchner street in Gruenwald. Germany, April 29, 1945. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

As a birth activist, I want to explore the myths and misconceptions surrounding birth today. My desire is that every birthing woman knows her options, what is fact and what is fiction and, at the end of it, when she is holding her baby in her arms, she can OWN HER BIRTH. The Trouble with Repeat Cesareans. No one will deny that there is more risk to .

Send My Friend to The Blogcademy. Worth a try, right? October 28, 2014. The time has come to submit this entry for consideration for The Blogcademy Sydney 2014 scholarship.

Active Contemplation by a postmodern postVaticanII gal. May the Angels lead you into Paradise,. May the Martyrs receive you at your coming, and take you to Jerusalem, the holy city. May the choirs of the Angels receive you, and may you with the once poor Lazarus, have rest ever lasting. May the Souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. And so once-poor Lazarus beckons me to move beyond the grave.