ElementalMom

By way of Geoff Arnold, this old gem. Makes me teary-eyed every single time I hear it. I cannot believe the BBC is bleeping it, but hey… at least it gets noticed. http://geoffarnold.com/?p=1843

Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War by Joe Bageant. 2007, Crown Publishers. 267 pages of sheer rampaging depression upon a backdrop of a subtly pounding headache you weren’t quite sure you had, but are now mainlining excedrin to try to relieve, unsuccessfully. How’s that for the opening of a book review? I [...]

OK, this totally cracked me up: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071212-pregnancy-tips.html Karen Rosenberg, an anthropologist at the University of Delaware, said that the feature would have been naturally selected in humans at about the same time that bipedalism evolved, nearly five million years ago. I am just dying, picturing all these cavewomen getting to a certain stage of pregnant, [...]

Another great post from Question the Culture: "I Ought“ My favorite line? "And here comes the ought: take the idea, make it a rule, a requirement, a standard for decent motherhood, citizenship and humanity, wrap it in a brick and beat myself with it." Clearly, she reads my mind.

I haven’t had a good solid birth rant in a while. Sometimes, the Universe conspires to set me up for one, though. Night before last, my fabulous pal Jessica invited me to a showing of The Business of Being Born, being hosted by UrbanCrunchyMama. I was really excited to be there, since other ICAN women [...]

Things are incredibly ugly, financially, for my little family right now. Our house is on the market, and isn’t moving. Larry, our agent, tells us that’s not a problem, that we need to be patient, and just to hang on for a while. That despite all the media fearmongering, the market is not so much [...]