Archive for March, 2009

Our 15 Minutes of Fame

Aurora and I spent our weekend in Dallas/Ft. Worth at the Birth Controversies conference. It was awesome, and I’ll blog all about it once I catch back up to my life. But for now, here’s the teaser. Aurora and I were interviewed to back up Deborah Pascali-Bonaro, the director of “Orgasmic Birth”. Check it out! [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-29

in a job coaching class, having serious junior high flashbacks # Lunch with Maddy Oden! Awesome! # Woke up before sunrise; it’s a good start to aligning my body clock to Dallas time. # @quennessa Hurrah! in reply to quennessa # Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #ocean #environment #parent # Welcome, [...]

A Story For Dave

Today, I found out that my friend Dave passed away. It’s a body shock on so many levels. When I called Walter, we were sobbing one minute, laughing the next. Typical, of us, and of Dave. It’s shocking because Dave died of a form of cancer so horrific, I don’t have good ways of describing [...]

Go Vote for Conscious Woman!

Conscious Woman is up for some prizes at a site for woman-owned businesses. Please go vote! http://www.startupnation.com/leading-moms-2009/contestant/5616/index.php You can vote once a day, so bookmark it, and keep voting! Thanks!

Tangling with CPS

Not me, gratefully. Not now. But over the years, I have accumulated a host of friends who have ended up going head to head with this most feared of government agencies. I have one friend who had CPS called on her simply for the fact that some anonymous passerby thought that having children on a [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-22

@quennessa Art has value inherently. And to hell with anyone who says otherwise. # If you do your weekly #hundredpushups and #twohundredsitups daily, is it cheating? # Welcome to @huntpress, who needs to upload an avatar. =) # @mslaura come do #hundredpushups and #twohundredsitups with me! in reply to mslaura # Went out for a [...]

Customer Service — Complete Fail

So a few weeks back, someone on freecycle was getting rid of a handheld desalinating pump. Score! These are expensive, but very very valuable for ditch bags on a boat, so I snagged it. I went to the company’s website, but could not find the model anywhere, so I emailed customer service, to see if [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-15

@labortrials You go, grrl! Give it to em straight! in reply to labortrials # Verizon never notified me, but here’s the scoop: http://tinyurl.com/djv3lr # A day of knocking paperwork outta the park. And if I get a big enough hunk done… I am gonna reward myself with a quick kayak around. # Loving how a [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-08

Snuggled up in the salon, watching Princess Bride with the kiddos on a stormy stormy day # @jcatsexton OMG that’s the funniest tweet I’ve ever read. Especially since I’m in the middle of a Pokemon battle at my house in reply to jcatsexton # Making connections, and trying to knock through a heinous to-do list. [...]

New Post on LWOS

From one of my darker days, a post about the quintessential question. The Knowing of Practical Things

Countrywide Mortgage Sucks

This is a letter I’m posting on behalf of my friend Angela. Like her, I used to believe that doing the right thing was the right path, and that if you had good intentions, it’d all work out in the end. But things in this country are so insane right now, and the mortgage companies [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-01

Welcome @ActiveCaptain! Wow, I feel like one of the cool (twitter) kids now! # The mighty Zen (http://zensekai2.wordpress.com/) is finishing the s/v Excellent Adventure logo! Whoot! Coming to an avatar near you, soon. # @quennessa totally weird. But we love you that way. in reply to quennessa # Powered by Twitter Tools.

New post on LWOS

The Knowing of Practical Things I wrote this post one day when the demons of doubt were out and large, and one too many people had asked me what the boys were learning. You know, actual school learning. And I snapped.