I had thought that going into space would be the ultimate catharsis of that connection I had been looking for between all living things—that being up there would be the next beautiful step to understanding the harmony of the universe. In the film “Contact,” when Jodie Foster’s character

It seems there are as many opinions on motherhood as there are people. So when a woman finds herself at the culmination of her maidenhood, teetering on the epoch of matrescence and the irrevocable changes that come, she has heard that parenthood, and more specifically motherhood, is paradoxically both the