Hanna Neuschwander
Hanna Neuschwander is director of communications of graduate programs at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and managing editor of the academic journal Democracy & Education. She is also the author of a guidebook to West Coast coffee roasters, Left Coast Roast. She gave birth to a healthy daughter in May 2014.
— From September 2014The Winter Garden
The winter garden is a good place to incubate the idea of a child. It is all potential, like an empty house waiting to be furnished. Just as I imagined the chickens laying, the now-dormant bulbs blossoming, and the grapes ripening in the sun, so too I dreamed of buying maternity clothes and onesies, feeling euphoric after giving birth, and feeding an infant from my own body. Even the prospect of sleepless nights with a crying baby seemed enticing.
September 2014