Jessica Linnell Price is the author of “The Complete Guide to Helping Your Baby Sleep Through the Night So You Can Too: 101 Tips and Tricks Every Parent Needs to Know” (Nov 10) and “Off to College: Now What? a Practical Guide to Surviving and Succeeding Your First Year of College” (Jan 09). She spent 10 years in the public health field serving as an infectious disease technician and a county environmental health inspector. She is a former journalist and currently works as a technical writer. She has been published in several local general interest magazines and trade publications.
Writers are forever pregnant with poetic words that whisper and pray and pause and pacify. We plant and plow and ferment words. We use fertile words such as fecund, semen, soil, fever. We spill our he...