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My Feminism Includes Foucault
Or, Why My Blog Will Never Make Money My story may be so common as to be trite. There’s nothing special about “Intelligent young woman scuppers academic career to support husband and children”. Oh, what the hey, let’s throw a “promising” in there for good measure. You can choose where. I like to think of…
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Road Trips
I had three days out of time last week. The kids continued. The family went on. School was attended, all without me. I was Away. (Then, unfortunately, I was Sick, thus delaying the update.) I’m partial to road trips. I prefer them to vacations, I think. There is an essential freedom in going for a…
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Despite the Big Yellow Bus
Welcome to the September Carnival of Natural Parenting: We’re all home schoolers This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month our participants have shared how their children learn at home as a natural part of their day. Please read to…
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Birthdays are a-comin’ in
Loud sing cuckoo? Eleven years ago this evening, I was hanging out in a hospital room waiting for this labour thing to get going already. It did, I became a mom as a result, and tomorrow we get to celebrate my son’s continued trip around the planet. All awesome. But for me, a birthday is…
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A More Compelling Story
Here’s what the world really needs: a more compelling story. I proudly self-identify as a raving eco-feminist, and have been boosting those signals for over 20 years. I get excited by ideas like kyriarchy and flap my hands and corner my husband and hop up and down a lot while “explaining” my new finding. I spend a…
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Letting Go
I just read Lama Surya Das’ book “Letting go of the Person You Used to Be”. Letting go is an important concept in meditation, acknowledging thoughts as they arise, and then… letting them go. But there is much more to that simple phrase than first comes up. It turns out to be very difficult to…
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A lifetime of reading
Recently, I happened to score a job taking inventory while working at a very small library. It turned out that “my” library contained approximately the number of books I have read in my lifetime. [FN] So, here it is, a lifetime of reading, gathered together in one place: Now, this in no way reflects my…
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Somebody’s Poisoned the Water Hole
Do you remember BPA? The chemical that was in the baby bottles from which my children drank from the time they were a few weeks/months old? It was in the bottles that attached to my breast pump (and almost certainly the pump itself). I was recently reading “Slow Death by Rubber Duck“, and I came…
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This Post is Solar Powered
I am writing to you, finally, from the studio out back of my house. This studio is not connected to anything; it is, in fact, a shed, into which I have placed a desk, a bed, a rocking chair and a large pile of incomplete writing and textile projects. It is not a dingy shed,…
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This week in the garden
Yesterday we had a mixed greens salad with our very own strawberries. I’d post photos, but it got eaten too quickly. We only had two plants last year, so this is the first time that they’ve produced enough fruit all at the same time for us to serve it, rather than just furtively scarf individual…