ElementalMom

I just heard a few minutes ago that Cindy Sheehan has resigned from the peace movement. This blog on Daily Kos explains why. I don’t even know where to begin. I have watched her get attacked over and over, in increasingly ridiculous, harsh, and anatomically impossible ways, all for saying that a mother’s grief trumps [...]

This is what our 15 minutes of fame looks like. Only it’s more like five minutes. In all the craziness that’s been going on lately, I completely forgot to blog about us being on television. I remember a time when that would have been a really big deal, but these days, it was just something [...]

Usually, the boys have popsicles in their bath. It’s a long standing tradition of mine; I used to love popsicles in the bath, the contrast between hot soapy water and cool fruity popsicle was something I savored from my own childhood, so it’s something I wanted to give them. And rather than buying corn-syrup-sweetened quiescently [...]

I’m all excited; out of the blue, my manager assigned me the wrap-up piece for the JavaOne Conference this year. Here’s the piece: http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/2007/articles/weekinreview.jsp Check it out! And please leave comments there; it’ll drive my rate up. =)

My blog is in danger of becoming an endless video review. But one of my homeschooling mommy buddies sent me this link, which as its background music, has a version of Cat Stevens’ Peace Train that I hadn’t heard before. http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html Someday, it’s going to come.

This is Teresa’s journey to HWBA3C. And while I like birthstories, and read them from time to time, this picture montage of her entire journey has had me sobbing in joy each and every time I watch it. http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/view_shared?p=2a4e81fbf0f66accb8afce I showed it to one non-parent friend of mine, who said she was utterly unmoved. I [...]