decision-making Archives - Barbara Buckner Suárez

The Birth Scale Part II

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | decision-making, preparation

This is a continuation on a piece I published the other day about “A Birth Story” blogpost I read in Longreads. If you’d like to read part 1, it’s right here. With no judgement intended toward the author or her birth story, there are things that might have been very...

The Birth Scale

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | decision-making, preparation

In the wee hours on a Saturday morning, I was reading a post on Longreads titled, “A Birth Story” – so you know it piqued my interest. It’s a long story, and I applaud the publishers for printing it. All too often, we’re only given sound bites, just sexy headlines and...

Don’t Be Afraid of Your Freedom!

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | decision-making

Students file into the classroom. You can tell they’re feeling nervous by how they speak in hushed tones and the way they look sideways at each other. The room I teach in is behind locked doors, so even though they’ve all been standing together in the lobby for...