Am I the only person confused about why we need people to advocate and protect mothers who are doing the natural thing and breastfeed their babies in public. I’m really trying to understand the logic behind making a mother feel embarrassed about feeding her child! We make claims about being…
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Arming Your Teens With The Tools Of Knowledge
I don’t have a teenager. But I was once a teenager and therefore am afraid to have one! Being a teenager today is a lot different than it was for me. I don’t know if it’s harder or easier, it’s just different. By the time I graduated high school, I…
End Of A Diseased Era
It’s interesting looking back on my life with Colitis. For the past few months I’ve been obsessed with remembering moments and symptoms and comparing notes. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I’m trying to get a handle on a why and how. Why it happened? And how did it get…
Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries…
…Something I learned at 16 through the amazing voice of Valarie Pettiford. I didn’t know her then. But I had seen her and listened to her and knew her through the revival of Bob Fosse through the show, Fosse. What I didn’t know was that I was about 2 degrees…
What The Book Didn’t Tell Ya, #463
From the moment I found out I was pregnant, I started reading. I read everything! Every article, book, blog post and tweet about parenting you could possibly imagine, outlining every scenario and more. It helped me to understand a lot of Why’s and clarify a lot of confusion. Parenthood made…