I was extremely honored to be asked to provide a guest post on Rixa’s wonderful “True Face of Birth” blog recently. The post was a response to a comment-storm, generated by some people who were not prepared to see some pretty typical homebirther stuff online (although what they thought they’d see on a blog subtitled [...]
Archive for April, 2008
April 28 2008
Shaye’s Birth Story
A while back, before I had her permission to post, I wrote “Triumph” about Shaye’s birth. On Brighton’s one-month birthday, she’s now published the full birth story. It doesn’t show up well in firefox, so use IE. And prepare to be amazed. A few of my personal fave bits: The look on her face after [...]
April 25 2008
Guest Post — Vampires and Unschooling
This is a guest post. I’ve been stockpiling ideas for a while, and in a fit of inbox-cleaning, have been unearthing gems lost in the clutter. I was going to riff on this idea myself, and then decided that Dawn’s words were so perfect, I’d just be messing with it. So here we go… Dawn [...]
April 24 2008
Rowan’s Tooth #2
Tooth #2 is officially gone! It’s the matching bottom tooth, so now he has a great gap front n’ center bottom, through which to whistle, or rest a straw. The Tooth Fairy brought him a lovely silver dragon charm, which he has not physically let go of in 24 hours or so. This one hung [...]
April 21 2008
New Post on LWOS!
More fun tirades from me about Digital Natives! http://lifewithoutschool.typepad.com/lifewithoutschool/2008/04/digital-natives.html Enjoy!
April 17 2008
Mother of Sons
As usual, things are nutty in the birth advocacy world. It’s not worth going into the details, but recently, I was questioned by someone who basically said that because I was a mother of sons, not daughters, my birth advocacy work didn’t have the urgency that the work mothers of daughters had. You know, because [...]
April 1 2008
Conscious Woman of the Month — Maddy Oden
This link, from the inestimable Raquel: http://www.consciouswoman.org/2008/04/01/conscious-woman-of-the-month-april-2008/ I knew about Tatia; when cesarean activism is your thing, you start seeing a lot of maternal mortality. And in ICAN’s world, cytotec is considered to be nothing short of the most evil chemical in the world. All my admiration goes out to Maddy and the work she’s [...]
