Listen to any financial guru being interviewed on the radio or television, and they will all say the same thing: we still are not technically in a recession. Our country is yet to post two consecutive quarters of negative growth; despite the disasters that have come of the housing market crash, fuel and grocery prices, [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 27, 2008
Switched At Birth
Here in Montana, Ira Glass’ This American Life airs on our local NPR station at noon on Saturdays.
The routine Andrew and I have set up for me, to ensure that I get some significant, uninterrupted writing time AT LEAST once a week is for me to take off on Saturday mornings, head into town, plant [...]
July 24, 2008
From Potty Training Woes to Crushed Mailboxes…
In the past few days, I’ve spent a lot of time vacillating between feeling like things are finally starting to feel easier, from a motherhood perspective, and feeling like mine and Andrew’s challenges in raising children simply flow from one set of circumstances to another.
For example, a couple days ago, I asked our three kids [...]
July 24, 2008
Mother Nature’s Fury in a Matter of Minutes…
I love my flowers. Ask Andrew. I love to feed them, water them, watch them grow inch by inch. I take pride in my garden. I don’t use chemicals. I don’t Weed N’ Feed the yard. I just love them a whole lot.
This is what my garden was beginning to look like this year:
On Tuesday [...]
July 21, 2008
The Debate Over Childbirth Safety in America
Wow. I’ve been in a rather heated, on-line debate over the past week.
On the women’s self-advocacy and information-sharing, on-line community called EmpowHer.com, I recently posted an entry to the Maternity/Parenting forum called, “If You’re An Expectant Mom, or Know One, Please Read This!!!”
It was based on an article recently released by midwife Ina may [...]
