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…
Category: Parenting
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,…
Better than Bunnies for Easter
Live animals don’t belong in Easter baskets. As adorable as baby bunnies, chicks, and ducks may be, they aren’t great gifts. They require an intense level of care and have…
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…
Sustainable Holidays: Wrapping Paper and Holiday Card Alternatives
Charlie Brown worried about the shallow consumerism of the holidays, but he never mentioned one of the most egregious side effects of that consumerism: massive holiday waste. Massive easily preventable…
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…
Sustainable Second Birthday
As with any other event we have, we wanted to keep Flintstone’s Second Birthday party as sustainable as possible. And, as with everything else in our lives, this goal had…
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…