tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459895829092665104.post1669774663207339012..comments2023-06-01T10:02:01.797-04:00Comments on My Retiring Life: “Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse. A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all.” ~ Jennifer Worth, The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard TimesTracy Altierihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13365478637425591170noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459895829092665104.post-61248641963487038572013-05-20T08:35:34.440-04:002013-05-20T08:35:34.440-04:00Loved last night's final episode - I cried and...Loved last night's final episode - I cried and cried - it was great!Tracy Altierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13365478637425591170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459895829092665104.post-6907838236283237382013-05-17T15:51:42.364-04:002013-05-17T15:51:42.364-04:00It is hard but it is also real. You grow to love a...It is hard but it is also real. You grow to love and care about the characters. I'm glad to be a woman in the 21st Century. However the fact that the series begins right around the year that I was born shows just how many advancements there have been made to medicine and women's medicine. Tracy Altierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13365478637425591170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459895829092665104.post-16324565047627182692013-05-17T06:00:33.588-04:002013-05-17T06:00:33.588-04:00Thank you for the tipp, Tracy! I am a huge fan of ...Thank you for the tipp, Tracy! I am a huge fan of series made by the BBC and always hope that German TV productions would learn more lessons from them (they don't) - but at least they managed to bring Season 1 of Downton Abbey on TV - still waiting for Season 2 though :)<br /><br />I will definitely check out this series, too, although it seems to be a hard topic...Nancy // and while we are herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00611136537155808332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459895829092665104.post-71129018611180174342013-05-15T08:07:38.746-04:002013-05-15T08:07:38.746-04:00I have pre-ordered season 2!I have pre-ordered season 2!Tracy Altierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13365478637425591170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459895829092665104.post-35213776150609226082013-05-15T06:54:52.886-04:002013-05-15T06:54:52.886-04:00Season 2 will definitely be a part of my DVD colle...Season 2 will definitely be a part of my DVD collection! Three cheers for the BBC and PBS - what would we do without them?!Tierney Bardenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12991939826597151036noreply@blogger.com