val's new writing project

I have known Valerie Eakes (-Kahn) for something like 19 years now--albeit with large gaps in our actual contact. She was the coolest artsy sci-fi intellectual math literature French singing acting writing chick among our friends and just plain nice to boot. She is the kind of person you feel good being able to call "friend"-- like it makes you a better person by association. She published a book of poetry our senior year in high school that still ranks high among the collection of poetry books on my book shelf. She even wrote a novel last November. We recently read the Epic of Gilgamesh together. We were supposed to be reading the Iliad together, but apparently she has been laying out a Web log and a layette instead. That it ok. No one is more deserving of the opportunity to self-publish to the whole world about being pregnant than she.

Congratulations, Valerie and Ed, this one is for you:

keep it down in there
a generation gestates
cucumbers and dill