One year, one month, and one week of breastfeeding. Not exclusively, not perfectly, and not without quite a few painful moments. But literally no one I know personally, in real life (i.e. outside La Leche League meetings) has breast-fed past a few weeks. People kept asking me, at work, etc. when I was going to wean my daughter (Clara ( Read more... )

 A wise woman once said, "If your life is boring, then you're doing most everything right ( Read more... )

So for some reason I had this idea that behind Clara's drooling, raspberry-blowing facade she was thinking some super deep baby thoughts. Sometimes she gets this furrowed-brow look of deep contemplation, as if she had the secrets of the universe and the end of human suffering. If only she could speak, she could impart this knowledge and save ( Read more... )

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So since there's relatively little going on in my life, other than almost getting arrested again, this will be a Clara post. I.e., I will allow Clara to update what's going on in her life, since she is growing by leaps and bounds and learning new awesome skills every day. Here is what she has to say ( Read more... )

Lol, what do you get when some self-righteous extremists get all panty-bunched over the possibility of their plastic-wrapped tofu not being vegan anymore?

Hilarity.

vegetarians are apparently getting all riled up about the idea of plastic being made from chicken feathers. This is stupid on so many levels. To paraphrase:

OMG so instead of making plastic ( Read more... )

So in my various vocations, I've learned to lie quite easily. To lie easily, I mean, learning to lie was less easy ( Read more... )

At the risk of becoming one of those women who exclusively posts news about her offspring, who (it's sad but true) are slowly beginning to regard her as obsolete, here's what's going on with Clara ( Read more... )

My comment: As a single mom, I find his comments highly offensive. I might not be making millions of dollars, but I AM educated and my daughter is NOT about to “starve to death” without government assistance ( Read more... )

 I like to read.  I get lost in novels, absorbed in biographies, etc ( Read more... )