This past weekend, several of the Montana Childbirth Collective ladies, including myself and six-year-old Ellie, conducted a campaign of distributing Mothering Magazine’s International Breastfeeding Symbol stickers and window clings to well over 100 businesses in the greater Bozeman area.
The goal?
1. To promote wide-spread recognition of this symbol, just as we are accustomed to these symbols:
2. To [...]
In case you missed it, below you will find a link to President Obama’s press conference from yesterday evening.
As I listened to the post press conference coverage on NPR’s Morning Edition today, Steve Inskeep interview economist Rosanne Altshuler who asserted, among other things, that Obama’s promised tax reform is quickly being left behind. (I, for [...]
I swore I wouldn’t do it. I promised my husband I would not sink so low. I railed against the trend, describing the practice of tweeting as “idiotic,” “pathetic,” and ” a waste of time.” And then I became (only slightly) convinced at the Desert Nights Rising Stars Writer’s Conference that, to be a modern [...]
I’ve begun reading Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones. I guess I should say, I’ve begun re-reading the book, as I’m fairly certain I read this (skimmed it? perused it?) while taking undergraduate creative writing courses at University of Puget Sound more than a decade ago.
I came across a paragraph in the book the other [...]
Wow. We’ve lived in Montana for six years now and never, never have I experienced such a lovely first day of spring as yesterday. At its peak, the weather warmed to almost sixty degrees…not too terribly common for this time of year in Montana.
The kids rode bikes, I trimmed back my perennials, we played golf [...]
