Monthly Archive: November 2010

Nov 20

Because I Must

There’s a scene that I keep thinking of in the movie Blast From the Past. Blast From the Blast was a very mediocre popcorn movie from 1999, which I watched when I was going through a phase of having to watch every movie Brendan Fraser ever made. It was cute but ridiculous, and it wasn’t …

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Nov 15

Offensive, defined

There is a “nurse-in” today on Facebook, both to celebrate breastfeeding, and to protest the removal of many, many breastfeeding pictures, and in some cases entire profiles, because the powers-that-be find them “obscene” and offensive in some way. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.  Clearly, Facebook is just confused as to …

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Nov 14

Attachment Parenting: Freedom and Joy

This is in response to an article by Erica Jong, entitled Mother Madness, in which she attacks attachment parenting. You can read the entire article here. Or, you can skip reading the article, and just read my blog, because 1) I’m going to share all the high points (or low points as it were), and …

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