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breastfeeding
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breastfeeding
Breasts and Burqas
02.17.10 | Permalink | 63 Comments*This post is not about whether you breast or bottle feed; as long as you make a thoughtful and informed decision, who cares? — unless your thoughts or information are wrong, of course, but really — This is about cultural norms of modesty(?), and why in the heck is Utah so weird? My mom is [...]
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breastfeeding
You don’t need an inner city to have a ghetto
12.02.09 | Permalink | 24 CommentsWe spent a few hours tonight getting ready for our first Sunday in the new church building. It’s a fine building. Predictable, presentable facade, wide hallways, new carpet smell, pristine chalkboards. It’s only a street away from our house, surrounded by a lake of asphalt just waiting to be rollerskated on by happy children. We [...]
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breastfeeding
Hoot
10.06.09 | Permalink | 22 CommentsThe kids are home from school today because there is no school (cruel travesty of the natural order of things). We cleaned up — they unloaded the dishwasher quickly so they could watch a show about horses, and then we went to DI, where we loaded up on books for less than I owe in [...]
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breastfeeding
Comfort zone
03.09.09 | Permalink | 46 CommentsWhen Sally was one month old, I went back to my secretary job at Columbia University. Just four hours a day at first, then six. I loved it. Though I wanted Sally fiercely, I wasn’t ready, at twenty-three, to stay home all day in a poor section of The Bronx with no friends. Dick stayed [...]
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breastfeeding, environment, works for me
Earth Mother Day
04.22.08 | Permalink | 7 CommentsI confess I’m not very green. I don’t even have much desire to be green — too lazy, too busy, too unconvinced that driving a Prius will save the planet when apparently production of a hybrid battery contaminates it. Too worried that anything I do won’t make enough of a difference. And too lazy. Did [...]
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breastfeeding, fashion, fight the frump
Hide the Hunchback
04.04.08 | Permalink | 15 CommentsFirst, another confession, and then, an honest-to-appearance tip. I ran (in the minivan) to Walmart right after walking with Shalece today. While I didn’t shower or anything, I did change out of my exercise clothes. But if the same kind of people shop at your Walmart as do at mine (people like me), then you [...]
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advice, breastfeeding, health, motherhood, vacations, well-meaning strangers
Well-meaning strangers
03.25.08 | Permalink | 5 CommentsA funny thing happened on the way out of an Arizona Costco last week. The cashier (who was maybe early 20s) looked from my 2% milk to 18-month-old Spot on my hip and asked, Are you buying this for your daughter? When I said, Why yes, he persisted: You asked the doctor and he said [...]
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