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Yesterday I read this post over at Small Things and it really struck a cord with me: This is a great post.  I’ve cultivated a habit (aided & abetted by tumblr) of cherry-picking a paragraph or two from articles instead of letting them stand on their own.  I didn’t want to do that here.  I […]

Yes, yes – of course you know I’ve heard of this show and HATE IT.  But instead of reinventing the wheel, some really great posts I’ve read about it: Birthing Beautiful Ideas writes a few good ones as does The Feminist Breeder. And several other birth advocates which I’ll link to later.

I’m Birthing at Home and Eating My Placenta, and I Swear I’m Not Even a Hippy. Great post.  And part of the reason why I’m so vocal about my home birth – to help dispel the stereotypes.

I don’t care.  I like memes, cliche or stupid or no.  So here goes: 1. What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before? I gave birth… er, no wait, that was 2009.  I was raising a baby! Watched my kid turn 1 year old.  Moved to Seattle.  Bought a freakin’ house.  All […]

I am so ready for this holiday season to be over.  I’m ready for it to be January 1 and to start all over again with a new year. It’s a very rare occasion that I get sick – maybe once every year and a half.  I’m just getting over being sick now, it’s the […]

Věra and I went to Amsterdam together, in September 2006, for 2 nights and 3 days.  I had never had a group of girlfriends before Prague and I’d always wanted to take an all-girl trip.  A group of girls, renting a car and driving to Italy or some such.  But no one ever came through […]

And yet another thing to rain all over my Christmas spirit. This morning, first thing upon waking, I reached over and grabbed my phone to check email.  I don’t normally do this, but I was checking for a work related email. The very first email at the top of my inbox was from Karel.  Karel […]

I’d posted this on my “professional”/public blog and thought it worth posting again here.  I am not a fan of Dooce and haven’t been for quite some time.  There.  I said it.  Publicly.  And I know I am not the only one.  There are a couple of blogs that I don’t like much and yet […]

Gosh. I haven’t written about food in ages. I guess I’ve been too busy cooking it? I’ve definitely found my style – it’s hearty, simple, farmer’s market type food. I’m at a loss as to how to organize all my favorite recipes, which is why I used to index them on an online recipe blog […]

There are many parts of Seattle – so many of them not on the beaten path for tourists who come here.  It’s a shame, because downtown & Pike’s Place are such a tiny little sampling and barely give a taste of what Seattle is. The first area that Mr Nikki and I ventured out to […]