Three Random Things or, It’s Allergy Season and I’m Too Tired to Do Much Thinking

I have a couple of long posts brewing, but the allergies and the pregnancy are making me sluggish. So today is the perfect day for a simple meme. Fortunately for me, Tonggu Momma tagged me for a meme a few days ago, asking me to list three random things about me. Here [...]

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The Exploitation of Mommy-Blogging

Catherine at Her Bad Mother has a thought-provoking (as usual) post about the nature of mommy-blogging, and whether or not writing about our children is inherently exploitive. Catherine was interviewed for an article on the subject, and - unsuprisingly, given the nature of journalism -is being pilloried by angry commenters who believe she has [...]

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Okay, folks. It’s time you knew. My sister and brother-in-law gave me my own domain name as a gift, and I am fiddling around with a new site. There’s still lots to do (I haven’t moved my archives yet, and I’m still figuring out CSS), and I won’t be moving for a [...]

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I promise you, this post was written under the influence of nothing at all

Allergy season has sprung, and I am caught in its clutches. After struggling to go medication-free during this pregnancy, today I gave up the fight and took the allergy pill. It turns out that operating an automobile safely requires me to have functioning eyes, rather than swollen, teary, bloody orbs of itch. [...]

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I am a finalist!

Hey! Did you know that Shannon had a haiku contest?  Haikus about our mothers? And that the prize is $1000 cold, hard American dollars?  And that I am a finalist?  And that I can only win if you, my dear, wonderful readers, will vote for me?
You can read the five finalist poems on Shannon’s site, [...]

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