Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, now the president of Spelman College, has a very special place in my heart, as she does in the hearts of many Mt. Holyoke women. I was at my local library and saw her newest book, Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation and of course checked it out immediately. Excitedly, I begin ( Read more... )

More or less officially now. goodbush and I finally have our doula website up and running! It's not 100% done, but there's enough up there for you to get a pretty good idea of what it looks like. Go see it!

Whole Mother Birth Services

What do you think?

Finally.


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So there's a neighborhood near where I now live where everyone has to decorate for Christmas. They sign a contract when they move in. We decided to go for a walk through it, and it was quite fun ( Read more... )

croquetmetaphor is visiting, and it is wonderful! Except that goodbush's parents and grandparents are on vacation together and we are watching 2 crazy dogs. Sebastian is a black miniature schnauzer who is cute when he is not barking at the mailman. Teller is a 95 year old shitzu who rubs his face on the floor and grunts a lot. Sebastian was barking at some kids riding ( Read more... )

Could you see a billboard advertising Sprint because it has "more coverage than 3 bottles of tanner."

I'm settling in. croquetmetaphor is visiting and I couldn't be happier ( Read more... )

tulipchica posted a link to an article describing the Pioneer Valley as The Valley of the Literate. I liked the story, but my favorite bit was the slideshow of A Bookstore Tour in Massachusetts. I swear I have been to at least half of these book stores, including the Book Mill in Montague.

Ah, nostalgia.

We did it, we moved to LA. Well, south of LA but I don't know that it really matters to be more specific.

We had a pretty good trip down. Stopped in Portland the first night to have a delicious soup, bread, and apple crisp dinner with keaki83, my favorite kind of dinner! It was so good to have that last chance to spend time with her before we moved too ( Read more... )

a la Slate.com.

Wednesday, September 19 saw Dr. Wangari Maathai at Benaroya Hall with goodbush. Amazing and inspiring ( Read more... )