P.C. Shannon

Caroline and I are about halfway through our first pregnancy, and it’s been a very interesting experience. Seeing the heartbeat on the ultrasound and hearing it having both been very powerful, moving experiences. Hopefully, we’ll find out the child’s sex later this week, and that will definitely increase our connection to the baby. At last we’ll be able to narrow our constant wrangling over names.

I’m sure that I will be overwhelmed when the baby is born and that nothing will really prepare me for that. But in the meantime, my sense of duty is already growing. This really came home to me when James Kim and his family were missing in Oregon. It was a strangely personal story as I get CNet videos on my TiVo and was already familiar with James. But when I read about him and his wife fighting for their kids’ survival, it resonated in a way that it wouldn’t have before the baby.