I’m back. Possibly. The last couple years have been a whirlwind of change, and there was not going to be any keeping up with this blog. But I may have…
Category: Motherhood
Military Homebirth: An Attack on Informed Consent
Military maternity care and military obstetric care persistently fail some servicemembers and their families. Attacks, both outright and oblique, on military homebirth and Tricare coverage for homebirth are only two…
And April Whooshes Past
Did anyone catch sight of April as it blew by? So much for my goal of at least one post per month this year! April was a crazy busy month,…
Looking Back on 2014
It has been a very busy year! I had the honor of working for the largest historic public market in the US. The food justice work being done here is…
Chocolate and Child Slavery – Say NO This Holiday Season
There is a 2013 Update for the article HERE. Please visit the Chocolate and Child Slavery 2013 Update, which contains all the same information below plus any new developments since…
Birth Story
There have been a slew of pregnancy announcements in my life lately. It seems like half of my friends (or their significant others) are pregnant. So many of the…
Mom Enough: The Breastfeeding Working Mom
It’s a balmy, buggy night in South Carolina, though there is a very pleasant breeze softly shifting the palmettos. The streetlights have been on for a couple hours already,…
Green Birth Control or Birth Control Hypocrite?
o Oddly enough, though, even though I have fewer followers now, I’ve been getting a lot more private messages and emails about the blog and our lifestyle. I’ve even picked up…
Step 2: Look at Your Own Family
Step 2 was the February step. It’s now March. I didn’t write anything on step 2 in February, not because I wasn’t doing it, not because I wasn’t thinking…
Step 1: Learn; Compassion in Paganism
The First Step, Learn About Compassion, included two basic overall charges: Learn about Compassion in faith traditions you don’t know much about and learn about Compassion in your own…