When Jeni Decker approached me about reviewing her memoir of life with her two autistic boys I Wish I Were Engulfed In Flames, she got me at just the right moment: I was looking for something new to read and while I looked, I was rereading David Sedaris’s When You Are Engulfed In Flames. I [...]

There’s a lot of hot air pupping around about contraception falling under mandatory insurance coverage rules. Apparently some people don’t want their money going into a group coverage pool that pays for birth control on moral or religious grounds. I would like to offer this list of things my tax dollars have paid for despite [...]

I’m over at The DC Moms today talking about a Census Bureau report on child care that classifies what moms do as parenting but what dads do as a “child care arrangement”. Um, WTF? This regressive designation of the mother as the parent who provides “work support” for the father as the only paradigm for [...]

Happy V-Day! No, not Valentine’s Day. V-Day. V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls. It was started in 1998 by writer and activist Eve Ensler, V-Day events involve performances of The Vagina Monologues, A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer, Any One Of Us: Words From Prison, screenings [...]

Hi (she whimpers plaintively)! This week has been…um…nutso. Not for me, so much. But for the right wing. They’ve apparently decided that the group to marginalize this political (silly) season is women. For a few cycles it was gay people but Teh Gays refuse to vanish quietly into a drag bar and kept demanding equal [...]

Let’s talk about Ron Paul. Ron Paul is the Kucinich of the right. He is a strange, elfin little man who says many things that are out of the mainstream of political discourse. Occasionally, he stumbles upon an essential truth and for that he is valuable. Then he goes on tv and, when asked if [...]

A new article in the Christian Science Monitor trumpets that abortion is becoming a major issue in the 2012 Presidential campaign. The Republican candidates are all stating and restating their opposition to legal abortion while at the same time the Obama administration is enforcing rules broadening access to contraception, bringing his views on contraception and [...]

I’m at Babble today with a collection of motivational posters for pregnant women. I think they’re totally hilarious. Check one out:   To see the whole collection, head on over to Babble!

Boy howdy, has this been a busy week for me! I’ve been all over the interwebs talking my fool head off. Often before I should have because I’m finding that I’m reversing myself on second consideration of a few things. I started there week off here at home, trying to get my head around new [...]

Y’all, this is so rare for me. I almost never give stuff away. Actually, I’m not technically giving stuff away.  The DC Moms blog is giving it away but I wrote the post. Let me back up. My friend Lydia at Rants From Mommyland introduced me to Michelle Barce who is about to strike gold [...]