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Bio Girl has a post about the father-daughter weekend her dad requested for his birthday. It sounds like a great weekend–and a wonderful birthday gift. I did something similar, although it wasn’t for a birthday. Mr. Sandwich and I dated… Read moreLife With Father
So between Sheryl Sandberg, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Anne Marie Slaughter, and more, there’s a lot of talk about whether women can “have it all.” The more I think about it, the more I think that phrase is meaningless. What is “all”?… Read moreHaving It All, or Not, or What?
Sometimes it takes me a while to get around to certain topics. It’s not that I don’t have a lot to say about reproductive rights or access to health care or marriage equality–it’s that I spend so much time ranting… Read moreAll the Single Ladies
Mr. Sandwich: We’ll try to strike a happy medium between oppressive control and Lord of the Flies chaos. Me: I miss Brontosaurus. Mr. Sandwich: What do you mean? Me: They got rid of them. Now they’re Apatosaurus. Mr. Sandwich: What?… Read moreTalking Points
Do you go on regular Date Nights? We don’t. The last movie Mr. Sandwich and I saw in the theater was True Grit. Hey, it could be worse. It could have been the John Wayne version. Now that would have… Read moreDate Night?
Nearly a year ago, I was inspired by a post by Oil and Garlic to write about my balance. So, where do we stand now? 1. What’s your work schedule? I still drop Baguette off at 7 so I can… Read moreMy Balance, Revisited
Father’s Day on Wikipedia Stories that make no sense in the era of DNA testing, on IMDB. Even the Google Doodle is getting in on the Father’s Day action on The Guardian. Photo by pirate johnny, via Flickr. Happy Father’s… Read more5 Things I Found While I Was Looking Around: Father’s Day Edition
I had such big plans. I was going to nurse. There would be no sugar water or formula in the hospital. I would breastfeed throughout my maternity leave and pump after I went back to work. That’s not how things… Read moreIt’s Not Rat Poison*
Second photo by hummingcrow, via Flickr.
Meagan Francis’s post “Confessions of a scrapbooking dropout” on Babble.com got me thinking about my own love-hate relationship with the activity. And to start with, “hate” applies to the mental energy it requires, not to the process or results. In… Read moreAdventures in Scrapbooking