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  You don’t need an inner city to have a ghetto

  12.02.09 | Permalink | 23 Comments

  We 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 organized [...]

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  Hoot

  10.06.09 | Permalink | 22 Comments

  The 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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  Comfort zone

  03.09.09 | Permalink | 45 Comments

  When 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 [...]

• breastfeeding, environment, works for me

  Earth Mother Day

  04.22.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  I 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 [...]

• breastfeeding, fashion, fight the frump

  Hide the Hunchback

  04.04.08 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  First, 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 know that [...]

• advice, breastfeeding, health, motherhood, vacations, well-meaning strangers

  Well-meaning strangers

  03.25.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  A 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 [...]

• breastfeeding, commentary, motherhood

  Brain, Child: the magazine for thinking mothers

  05.22.07 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  So, I am a thinking mother. I’ve even read an article from a website/magazine dedicated to thinking mothers. Weaning Ella, by Jill Christman, Asst. Professor of English at Ball State University, is a haunting, lyrical elegy to the emotional and physical bond engendered by breastfeeding. Prof. Christman is a genius as a writer; she [...]

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