Here’s the link to listen my latest Vermont Public Radio commentary, which aired last night: “Facebook for Thirty-somethings”
Entries from April 28th, 2010
Facebook: The Next Generation
April 28th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: college · cyber-chat · ex-boyfriend · Facebook · vpr
C is for Cut
April 26th, 2010 1 Comment
We were lying on the living room rug, wrestling and talking about belly buttons. My daughter has long been fascinated and confused by her navel, which she calls “the hole in my body.” Our conversation meandered to umbilical cords, how babies grow inside their mommies’ tummies, and inevitably, to how babies come out. We’d made [...]
Tags: birth trauma · c-section · cesarean birth · Ina May Gaskin · Sheila Kitzinger
Four Going on Fourteen
April 20th, 2010 No Comments
April vacation, and A is alternately a diva and a doll, soaring through emotional highs and lows. My mom has always said that age Four is a “mini-adolescence,” but I didn’t quite get it until today. “I’m NEVER going to talk to you again, Mommy!” A announced, in public, at Open Play Gymnastics. The other [...]
Tags: adolescence · preschooler · school vacation
The Princess Phase
April 11th, 2010 1 Comment
The revelation comes at bathtime: “Mommy, you know what? All the Princesses meet a Prince in their movies!” My daughter’s eyes grow wide with the thrill of discovery. At age 4, she’s utterly captivated by the Disney Princesses, despite my best efforts to downplay them. These nine highnesses shine like beacons of magic, beauty and [...]
Tags: Ariel · Aurora · Cinderella · Disney princess · Dora the Explorer · preschooler · princesses · Snow White
Easter Egg Delight
April 7th, 2010 No Comments
Easter weekend brought fabulous sunny weather and heralded my recovery from a nasty bout of Bronchitis. Out of sheer sick necessity, I have been neglecting this blog as well my writing, work, ongoing projects, and chores, but I’m slowly coming back… We had to buy white supermarket eggs for Easter, since our chickens only lay [...]