Hello and welcome, I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus. A podcast meant for sharing thoughts, stories, enjoying idiomatic phrases and words in general. You can read along; the transcription is in the description of this episode. The idiomatic expressions are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, share it, but more importantly, continue the conversation. Today, The Tribe.

The voice on the other side of the telephone was tense. Her brother was calling, with only one certainty, she was being mistreated by her doctor and she needed protection. This was not a drill, it was happening and so many things were on the line, her right to breastfeed for one. She is his person, his haven, his friend from childhood, from home. He called me because he knew I woul ...