I've been waiting for someone to ask me about my blog title. Thank you, Patty, for posing the question and providing me with an excuse to explain.

One of the biggest joys in my life is watching the television show, "The Office." Fellow fans will sympathize with what hell it was waiting for the writer's strike to end and a new episode to air. One of the other biggest joys in life is red wine. There is a scene in last week's episode (the first new episode to air in months, many dark dark months) where the character, Michael Scott, is hosting a dinner party, takes a sip of red wine, and announces it has, "Kinda sorta an oaky afterbirth."

I've had this blog address for a couple of years but never wrote much in it. On Friday night, when I decided I needed an official blog site, I went back to this account and made a few changes. When it asked me for a title, I went blank. Something about me? Mmm, something about the things I like? Mmm, something about pregnancy? I sat there for at least a half hour before it finally came to me -- Oaky Afterbirth. Yeah, that's perfect. Admittedly, I was very tired and a little bit tipsy.