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Random Questions, Random Answers

August 17, 2011




I was looking for ideas for a quick post today, so I asked my followers on twitter if there was anything they wanted my opinion on that wouldn’t require research. Instead of picking one, I thought I’d answer several of them. When a porn star breastfeeds Molly (@KnockedUp_Over) asked “Have you see this article? I’m [...]

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The Sun Rises in the East and Sets in the West

August 4, 2011




Yesterday morning, I woke up at 5:00am to head to the airport to go to BlogHer 11 in San Diego, where I will be one of the Voices of the Year. I watched a glorious sun rise as I drove to the airport and watched the sun set as I sat at dinner with friends [...]

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A Perfect Summer Day

July 9, 2011




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I’m getting around this week…

May 31, 2011




I’ve been busy writing for the past while and by fluke several of the things I have been writing all ended up scheduled to go up this week.  I hope you’ll take a moment to drop by some of these other places where I am writing and leave a comment. Dr. Greene’s Perspectives Blog I [...]

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The Family Dinner: Is it “All That”?

May 29, 2011




I love the book The Family Dinner.  I really do. But I love it in the same way that I love magazines like Style at Home or Luxury Travel Magazine — it is visually appealing, inspiring, and makes me salivate at the mouth. It is life porn. In The Family Dinner, the food is perfect, [...]

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My Blog is a Preschooler

May 26, 2011




Three years ago, I sat at my laptop at my in-laws kitchen table and tapped out my very first blog post on PhD in Parenting. After having written my first six blog posts, I had received a grand total of 13 page views.  A couple of weeks later, when I wrote a post on faulty [...]

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Are you too invested in parenting highs?

May 13, 2011




At the Motherhood Activism, Advocacy and Agency Conference we have been talking a lot about the expectations that are put on mothers and the expectations mothers put on themselves. In my post yesterday, I mentioned a series of questions that Amber Kinser asked about forgiveness and the need for us to forgive our mothers, our [...]

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Flowers and Butterflies: A Birthday Cake

April 14, 2011




One special tradition in our family is that I always bake and decorate a cake for our kids’ birthday parties. On the morning of their party, they go out somewhere with Daddy while I prepare the house for the party and decorate the cake. I’m not an expert with icing by any stretch of the [...]

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I caved…

April 5, 2011




Do you remember in high school when the cool kids were trying to pressure you to smoke? To do drugs? To nail the teacher with spitballs? Yeah…those were the days. Except, not really. The cool kids didn’t want to have anything to do with me. But in addition to that, I didn’t really want to [...]

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Open Post

February 27, 2011




Is Winter over yet? I’m ready for Spring and the warmth and inspiration that it brings. More than anything, I’m looking forward to having more time for my family, for my friends, and even for this blog. My work keeps me pretty “heads down” at this time of year, but I can see the light [...]

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