We are absolutely ecstatic to announce that one of our original cast members, Norah, is very very VERY pregnant.

Actually, she's due in less than a month. I can't believe it. Funny, as in awesomely odd, after all the noise and nonsense we cover here, through all the past tense and pretense... real life just goes about its merry business.

It all surely gives one pause.  Stops you in your tracks; doesn't it?  Such a powerful metaphor. Ya know, historically speaking, only recently the word has taken on a literal definition. Although today dictionaries give the biological sense first, the word meant "full of significance" well before it meant "with child."

So in proper deference, consider this a "pregnant pause." Take a moment.  It's all right here on today's front page. You've got life and death, boundaries and limitations, evolution and articulation, hope and desperation... the entire drama we in PR vainly profess to script.

Norah, thanks for the inspiration.

Love always,

- Amanda