When my husband takes the boys out without me, they go wild. Literally. Never a store, rarely a playground–they explore the woods and creeks and fields, returning with photographs of every creature and flower and leaf they discover.
A creature-adventure to remember came the day they discovered a red-tailed hawk eating a squirrel. “He was so [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Of Hawks and Bulldozers
Posted in community, family, nature on November 27, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Blinking in the Light
Posted in abuse, family, love, parenting on November 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m slowly crawling out of my Thanksgiving daze. I returned home, went twenty minutes without eating pie, and drank something with no caffeine or alcohol in it. It’s very, very quiet . . . no parents, siblings . . . even my children and husband are off somewhere. We all spent the [...]
Would Anyone Else Care for My Recipes?
Posted in family, feminism, gender, home with children, home-ly duties on November 20, 2007 | 6 Comments »
A friend asked me for my dinner recipes the other day. If you do not find this at once hilarious and repulsive, it is because you have never seen me cook. Or rather, you’ve never seen me put some things in a pot and forget about it until it’s on fire. [...]
Preschool Hell
Posted in education, preschool on November 16, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Martin may go to preschool next year. I’m not sure yet. I’ve set up a few tours, though. There are 58 million preschools in my area, and they seem to fit into one of three categories: 1. church-run, 2. big-business-run, 3. college tuition-expensive ($10,000?!), but cool. Maybe this is just [...]
Seven Weird and Random Things
Posted in meme, random things on November 11, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Thank you, Bianca Bean and Unfit Mother, for tagging me to write about seven weird, random things about me. I really didn’t feel like writing all weekend, and this jump-started me. And it was fun.
1. In junior high school, a friend and I ducked into our science teacher’s classroom to hide behind a row [...]
Storytime: A Tale of Intimidation and Woe
Posted in family, parenting, public parenting on November 7, 2007 | 15 Comments »
Storytime at the library: a group of three to five year olds, most are quiet and focused on the story of the mouse and his house, at least for the moment. Some parents sit on the floor among the children; others sit in chairs in the back of the room, many have babies or toddlers [...]
How to Make Domestic Violence Cute and Funny
Posted in "Say What?", feminism, gender, media on November 3, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Foxnews.com “reports” on a sickening author and cleric who was broadcast on Saudi and Kuwaiti television giving advice to men on how and when to physically abuse their wives; he references how to assault a child as well.
The first sentence of the article reads: “Move over, Dr. Phil, there’s a new relationship expert in [...]
“You Don’t Care About Anyone Else But Yourself, Do You, Bitch?”
Posted in "Say What?", family, parenting on November 1, 2007 | 13 Comments »
I was pushing the stroller along the sidewalk one morning last week. I made a right turn into my neighborhood from the main street. Suddenly, I hear a truck pull up next to me. I turn, sure this is finally the kidnapper that I have been ready for, and about to go into stab-his-eyes-with-my-keys mode, [...]
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