“Martha, Martha…”

The kids are in bed. I have a couple of hours free before I go to sleep. How should I spend it? Working on a difficult but meditative post I’ve been working on about the Trinity? Or clean the house because my mother-in-law is visiting tomorrow?
Sadly, I think it will be [...]

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Did You Know…

that it was possible to cut the inside of your mouth with a tortilla chip? To cut it so badly that it swells?  Swells so much that it isn’t until hours later, when the swelling goes down, that you realize there was a tiny piece of chip STILL IN THERE?
Just doing my part to keep [...]

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The Truth About Me and Formula

I may be weaning the baby, but I’m still in denial. We have been supplementing with formula for my usual reasons, and that will gradually snowball until it is all formula, I know.
My reluctance to use formula has nothing to do with resentment of Big Business, adherence to La Leche dogma, or irrational phobias of [...]

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Truth and Blogging

Penelope Trunk claims that it doesn’t matter if journalists misquote everyone.
The reason that everyone thinks journalists misquote them is that the person who is writing is the one who gets to tell the story. No two people tell the same story… Journalists who think they are telling “the truth” don’t understand the truth. [...]

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Normal

Isn’t it a beautiful word?
Baby PoppySeed had her tests today. Actually, it was one test, because they decided the other was unnecessary. Everything was fine, and the scary thing they were looking for wasn’t there.
There were a lot of things in this process that annoyed me, and I thought about writing a gripey [...]

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