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• fashion, fight the frump

  Motherhood’s New Clothes

  05.30.08 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Is there anything worse than the perfume-pushers at department stores who douse the unwary? Probably not, but I also don’t like fashion or makeup or shopping. My ovaries have even failed me in my laundry endeavors. In fact, it is entirely possible that I am not a woman at all, except for those three children [...]

• 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 [...]