Archive for February, 2008

Popular Science: Compassion Cure

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-02/compassion-cure Check it out. Not only can they screw with our births, not only can they damage our kids, but then they can freaking MAKE MONEY OFF IT LATER when they figure out that ARTIFICIALLY DOSING OUR KIDS with a hormone OUR BODIES PRODUCE AT BIRTH FOR OUR BABIES can help fix what should never [...]

A Plea For Help from the Graphically Inclined

This hit my feed reader this AM: http://yellodyno.typepad.com/yello_dyno_blog/2008/02/realistic-fake.html Realistic fake photos challenge child porn prosecutors. Each week, about 100,000 sexually explicit images of children arrive on CDs or portable disk drives at Michelle Collins’ office. Although challenges to digital photos come in all types of criminal and civil cases, they are especially pronounced in child-pornography [...]

Thinking About Food

There’s nothing like a pregnancy to make you start really thinking about your eating. Again. We are already pretty “different” about our food. We did a phase of hardcore raw, but then fell off the wagon what with the move onto the boat, and then my pregnancy. And of course, cold weather does not encourage [...]

Trust Birth Conference — Shameless Promo

Conference Angst

In a scant week and a half, I am going to be speaking at the Trust Birth Conference in Redondo Beach, CA. I‘ve never even been to a birth conference before. I’ve heard a lot about them, heard people talk about what they saw and what impacted them. So I’m kind of flying blind in [...]

Each Other’s Family

I blogged a teeny bit about my July 31 miscarriage here. And until I was discussing the due date for the baby I’m carrying now with Mom2, I had forgotten that the baby I miscarried was due right around now. I miscarried between Rowan and Kestrel too. That one, an eight-weeker and so-called “silent” miscarriage, [...]

Thoughts at 26 Weeks

So here I am, over halfway. In our culture, for the first baby, you spend all your time panicking about the unknown of it all. In my case, I spent my second pregnancy wholly focused on the event of the birth, which was a planned HBAC, and came with all the challenges inherent to that. [...]

Comedy From Mike

My old pal Mike has decided to go into comedy. This video is from his first or second performance at SFCC. I think he did an awesome job. …and you’ll always be Bubba to me. =) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9wWHvwLokE

New Post on LWOS!

This one was really really hard to write. Mostly my essays about unschooling are pretty organic, and roll from whatever we’re experiencing, but lately I’ve been spending some time thinking of the larger cultural implications of the schooling process, and trying to focus on that. And in the interests of full disclosure, I’m also trying [...]

Multimedia and What A Five Year Old Knows

Previously, I’ve posted about Digital Natives, (here and here) mostly in terms of how unschooling is pretty much the most ideal way to approach the sticky problem of trying to be an authority to someone who can look up your sources faster than you can. It did not occur to me, until I was sitting [...]

Unschooling the Music

A mom on a local unschooling group I’m part of recommended a singing program, boy’s choir, that was gearing up to do auditions. She has two sons, one not much older than mine,  one 14, in the program, and they were both loving it. Sure, some schoolish aspects, but both the boys were learning tons [...]

Paying a Late Bill

Because my dental insurance finally agreed to pay up, I had the money, in hand, finally, to pay off one of my seriously delinquent bills. We’re talking, haven’t paid in three months. OK, fine, I’m a bad dog, but if the money isn’t there, it isn’t there, nothing I can do about that. But yesterday, [...]

Podcast Interview is Live!

Whoot! I am so excited! My first ever podcast interview is live on Carla’s Miss Adventuring show. You can also access it directly from iTunes, if you’re so inclined. Carla is going to be turning her guests’s “Tips for Misadventurous Living” into a book somewhere along the line, and you can see my (and the [...]

Eat, Pray, Love — A Review

My pal Angela sent me a copy of “Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert, with the note “You’ll want to shake her occasionally, but a good read.” With a recommendation like that, what else could I do? I sat down to see what the deal was. And ended up taking quite the unintended ride. EPL [...]

New Post on LWOS — More Digital Natives

I‘m a titch late on this, but a new post went up on LWOS a little while back, part 2 of my Digital Natives discussion. http://lifewithoutschool.typepad.com/lifewithoutschool/2008/01/digital-natives.html Go read! Leave comments! Increase my clickrate! LOL!

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