* My book, The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America, is on sale for $30 hardcover! It’s time to write about naked dancing again.  I didn’t plan this theme, honest.  But the modern dance world keeps pushing me there, with intriguing insights into how we experience our bodies: as women and men, as people of a certain age, and this time, as mothers.  Specifically, women who have been pregnant. Friday night, my husband and I kissed our kids goodnight, gave the