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A recent NY Times opinion piece on toxins and autism has been making the rounds lately, and well, frankly, the piece bugs the crap out of me, and I can't quite figure out why. After all, it seems like, not just an excellent idea, but a [...]
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I rashly went out Halloween costume shopping a few days ago. I'm not sure what I was thinking. Well, I know I needed to pick up a costume for my daughter — Yes, a few days shy of Halloween. I'm totally on top of [...]
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"Worry Brain, your mama's so ugly, she makes onions cry!" I found myself saying after I got off the phone with my husband. I had to hang up the phone because I'd burst into tears, and now I was trying to beat back the anxiety that was [...]
Warning: this post, and the site I link to, may be triggering to sex addicts.
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A few weeks ago, I got an e-mail from a woman named Paula Saardchit. She told me she'd found my blog while doing research for an article she was writing on sex [...]
This post is the seventh in a (slowly developing) series onhow I came to be where I am around the current election,and the third post about the candidates themselves.
Sarah Palin and I have very different moral, political and spiritual beliefs. We have had very different experiences as women and mothers. I'm sure there [...]
This post is the second in a (proposed) series on how I came to be where I am around the current election.
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The day I had my abortion, or maybe the day after, I was lying in bed, resting. I'm an obsessive record keeper, and [...]
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When my son was born, the decision to quit my job was an easy one. I imagine I would still have left a job I loved very much in order to be there for that vulnerable little baby, who seemed to be telling me so desperately that he needed [...]
My husband and I went out this weekend to catch Dark Knight, the latest Batman movie to hit the screens. In spite of the fact that it had, not only the typical suspend-your-disbelief fantasy movie moments, but also the oops-we-never-closed-that-loop sloppy production moments, the movie sucked me in and delivered on thrills like a [...]
There used to be times when I would see certain women and feel an intense, irrational hatred toward them. I wasn't sure where the feeling came from, but I knew it had something to do with sex. Some were women I knew personally, like coworkers or acquaintances or even retail clerks. Some [...]
This post is the first in a series on women and sexuality in our culture, which will touch on (Velvet Verbosity, are you paying attention?) the long awaited topic of porn (though they will swing broader, because that's the way my mind rolls).
This particular post is about wedding dress marketing, and before I start I [...]
