So, proposal 2, an amendment to the state constitution of Michigan which bans affirmative action in government agencies, public schools, universities, and many other organizations and businesses connected with the State of Michigan, passed yesterday ( Read more... )

Right after my waiting for a shoe to fall post, a whole bunch of stuff started happening ( Read more... )

Do you ever feel like you are waiting for the other foot to fall? I have this sinking feeling that something huge is just around the corner for me, workwise, lifewise, etc ( Read more... )

So, something weird happened last night. I am more laid back about it now, but I was really, really upset when it happened ( Read more... )

I am sitting here all alone listening to Fairport Convention's Unhalfbricking, which I associate with an old friend. There's a cover of a Bob Dylan tune on there -- "If you gotta go, go now." And it is such a melancholy, sweet, passive-aggressive song, which is sung surreally in French on this album, with a rhythm section made up of stacks of ( Read more... )

I hate Valentine's Day. It reminds me of when I was in highschool and I would go back to school on Monday and people would quiz each other on what they did over the weekend -- if you spent Saturday night in or played shuffleboard with your parents or somesuch horror, you were made to feel like some kind of social deficient. I hate Valentine's Day ( Read more... )

I have six babies on the brain -- all the moms due in the next eight weeks or so ( Read more... )

Had a really great birth today -- mama was in early labor for 24 hours, making me bite my nails, but when active labor kicked in she was just the picture of powerful, instinctual laboring. We just all stepped back and tried not to get buried by the mama power ( Read more... )

midwifery legistlation just passed in Wisconsin, one of the first in the midwest. I am fascinated by the tactics used by the midwives there -- instead of arguing how vital it was to have homebirth midwives and protect them, they argued that midwives were going to attend births anyway and you might as well have a licensing board to sort out the bad ( Read more... )

I am avoiding doing the little list of tasks I have to do today, hence the multiple posts. Going to try and meet up with Kate and family today at some kind of homeschooler library day -- as usual being the non-homeschooling crashers. Will probably go eat buns at Eastern Accents beforehand. Am trying to bribe Neil into behaving at kindergarten ( Read more... )