My SECOND trip to Amsterdam was, by far, the very best & most memorable. And you know, I did that one alone. Just me. No boyfriend or friend or anyone to answer to. It was my 28th birthday gift to myself. (Well, to myself and from my parents – a plane ticket.) Good god, has […]
I had the most perfect 30th birthday ever. Truly. I celebrated in Prague, smashed shots of slivovice and becherovka. Me, some friends, and my two flatmates (who I wish I’d appreciated more when I lived with them) went out dancing and didn’t get home until well after 5 am. Sadly, I don’t have any pictures […]
I’m going through all my old photos and, in the interest of trying not to rant and complain for awhile, reposting a few and looking back on when they were taken. These photos are from my last trip to Holland – Amsterdam. Don’t get me started on Amsterdam, my first great love. Mr Nikki’s, as […]
Yesterday, we went downtown right before Pike Place was closing. (The sky was gray, it was very, very windy and it was closing in the hour – the crowds were manageable! And I hate to say, because *I* was a tourist once, but sometimes I wish Pike Place was a “locals only” kind of place, […]
A friend just pointed me to a whole series of articles about the mother/baby bond from Scientific American. The first one I read is this one, about how “bottle-feeding mimics child loss in women’s brains.” I found this one particularly interesting, thinking about a previous rant of mine, regarding women who CHOOSE to pump exclusively […]
This infuriates me on so many levels. Not sure why they only make chocolate flavor for 12 months and up? Hell, why not start them on crap food and sugar & fake flavor at 3 months? If you have a child that’s 12 months old (or any age) and are contemplating giving this to them, […]
This morning I was laying in bed, still thinking about the “passing around the baby” thing. Actually, I haven’t stopped thinking about it all week, I’m still just that angry. (It’s got something to do with boundaries and a lot of psychological mumbo jumbo, but apparently the fact that I’m so angry is a good […]
I just read this article about “underground milk sharing” in Seattle magazine. Human breast milk this time, not raw cow or goat milk. And oh boy, did I have a few laughs while reading it. It sounds almost completely interchangeable with an article about raw milk – right down to the big organzations (FDA, La […]
One of the first things they talked about during the portion of the midwifery conference that I attended last week, was how to balance having a family & home life with being a midwife. I knew that there was a lot of time & sacrifice involved (being on call, getting calls at 3 am by […]
I just got back, this past Sunday, from a week at my parents’. The flight there was four and a half hours and the flight back was supposed to be 6 but wound up being 5. Good time. I was nervous, flying by myself with Nugget. It was an incredible hassle – because security is […]
I went old skool today. I’d left my laptop at home because it would be nearly impossible to carry both my laptop AND a 17lb child through the airport. And it’s been killing me. I’ve been itching to get this “faces of raw milk” site up and running. I’ve also been soliciting for submissions and […]
As raw milk is something I feel VERY strongly about and I fear losing it completely here in the US, I’m working on a new website & I’d like your help. it’s called “The Faces of Raw Milk”. If you drink raw milk and especially if you give it to your child/infant, as I do, […]
