A friend of mine sent me this article last week: Do you have the balls to really change the food system? There are parts of it where I could see it coming off as condescending, though I think this article is well targeted towards the faux-real foodies, the ones who – like she said, watched […]
When we first announced that we were moving up North, from Santa Monica to Seattle, oh, how people scoffed. They told us that we’d get sick of it, that the gray and the rain would drive us mad. It wasn’t just people from SoCal who told us this, though the people from SoCal sneered the […]
If you ever come to Seattle, I highly, HIGHLY recommend putting a stop at the Ballard Farmer’s Market on your itinerary. It’s year-round, so no excuses. I, stupidly, have been sticking to farmer’s markets in our neck of the woods for the past few months. Though Ballard was, immediately, one of our favorite parts of […]
I’ve often said that I think that feminism has caused a lot of damage to birth, mothering, and breastfeeding. I feel as though it’s been the WORST contributor to current problems, actually. Feminists were the ones who rallied around, “Why does childbirth have to hurt!” This was in response to religious people saying it hurts […]
I marvel, I ooh and aah in awe, but rarely do I outright brag. So, forgive me for doing so now – but when it comes to my son, there will be none of this modesty bullsh*t. A few months ago, we discovered Ricicli kids’ clothes at Monster Art & Clothing, one of my favorite […]
I’m still livid over the comments to that article I wrote about yesterday. Partially because I keep going back to read all the stupid comments. Anyway. This is a fabulously well-written, knowledgeable, fact-based response (something the opponents have yet to come up with.)
This was one of my favorite comments of the day: I’ve come to the conclusion that the majority of the OB’s are being trained in such a way that they are commiting malpractice everytime they deliver a baby. The number of ‘tricks’ my midwife had up her sleeve for all kinds of difficult birth situations […]
I’m so angry, I’m shaking right now. I was pointed to this article and I made the mistake of reading the comments. And then leaving a couple hundred of my own. A few of the particularly infuriating things: 1. One commenter said home birth was bad because illegals could then have unregistered babies. Uh. 2. […]
I went to my first proper yoga class today, since Nugget was born. My last class was exactly 2 days before he made his grande entrance. I frantically tried to practice at home, on my own, a few times, but I don’t have the self discipline to really do so. The class setting gives me […]
There’s been a lot about the rising number of only children in the news lately. It amuses me to see that it’s big news and that everyone thinks they’re an expert on only children now. Let me tell you – being an only child during a time when the number of only children I’ve met […]
It’s summer. Summer means all quiet on the blog front. There’s a lot going on here, and yet there’s not that much. I’ve had a bit of freelance work coming in the past couple weeks with the promise of more. We’ll see – the person who promises it has a tendency to tell me about […]
This is a perpetual, vicious cycle that I know many of you can relate to. For the past month, I’ve been trying to make a decision and going back and forth so much it’s maddening. I was determined to let my bangs grow out again, right? RIGHT? I swore I would! But I even told […]
