In response to Tracy

I am 100% in agreement with you, my darling. My vision is the same.. opening quotes from threads with witty titles (Marg would be amazing at this!), definitely Xanadu opening up our prologue, narratives with maybe those "grey boxes" with pieces of threads in it where they pertain, using the threads as chapter inspirations.

IMO, I think our group is secondary to what we have learned. So, in my vision we open with who we are and what we do/have done, why a women's group is so important even over the internet... that's the prologue so it gives the reader background on where we are coming from--that it's the cummulative lessons of 30 or so women learning and growing together, etc. From there each individual chapter on a topic and we glean from our threads material for each. So, we have topics on pregnancy (including things like sex in pregnancy!), birth, loss (we have a good chunk of pregnancy loss stuff) and infertility (can m/c and infertility go hand in hand, you think?), illness, shape of a mother (we'd have to call it something else.. but I think this one is sooo important!!), so on and so forth.

Personally, I would like to see our birth chapter open with Julie's canoe poem, with her permission of course. And if we have some sort of mothering or family life chapter I selfishly would like to have my poem I wrote for Kayla open it up :-) :-) :-)

In *my* vision, using Amanda's blog idea, I envisioned many of us coming on here and adding to stuff or giving citations, things like that... that's why I started the prologue and hoped people would add to, tweak it, etc etc.