ElementalMom

I don’t even know where to begin. How about Gratitude? I’ll start there. Thanks to God(s). I spent so much time, and still am, handing stuff uphill because it’s too big for me to carry by myself. I questioned God a lot in my youth; who knew that’s because I’d get older, and really need [...]

When I was young, my stepfather “The Bear” (who I have posted about before in this blog) was an alcoholic. Drunken giddiness gave way to drunken rage, and I spent many, many nights listening to the chaos on the other side of my bedroom door. Ever practical, even as a child, I had a backpack [...]

I‘ve been studing extreme sports pretty much since I got told that I was participating in one (freediving), and decided that our culture’s view of “extreme” is ridiculous. I can tell you that, judging by what gets written about the things people do to themselves in the name of sport, the human body is astonishing [...]

Nearly two years ago, when we went to New Zealand, we discovered the joys of the Trampoline. Our gracious hosts, Liz and Sarah, had one for their four kids, and we thought that was incredibly cool. Then we discovered that trampolines are pretty much ubiquitious there. Maybe because of the weather, maybe because the Kiwis [...]

I was going through my emails, and found this old gem from an email to a friend. Thought it was worth ressurecting. It’s from nearly three years ago. Attributing positive intent to my child is gonna be really really important, going forward. It’s so easy to think of misbehavior (which is simply my own societal [...]

Thanks to the efforts of my pal Dana, this blog, my other blog, and my more professional writing stuff now have a permanent home on the web. You can now find us here: http://www.theexcellentadventure.com It’s still got some fine-tuning required; the RSS isn’t working yet, and we’re tweaking some stuff, and migrating my old blogs [...]

This article hit the news a few days ago. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=2762171 “Medical Group Recommends All Pregnant Women Get Tested for Down Syndrome” The main reason: Tests far less invasive than the long-used amniocentesis are now widely available, some that can tell in the first trimester the risk of a fetus having Down syndrome or other chromosomal [...]