I've always cringed at references to women's parts that invoke floral imagery. 'The soft petals of her womanhood,' 'she opened to him like a flower' - ew, ew, ew and ick. They're lazy, these...
I have been known to curse. I have been known to curse a lot. But I curse only under very strictly controlled circumstances, which is to say, only in the company of close friends...
You know what sucks? More than Monday? More than all-day all-night morning sickness and the flu combined? More than all-day all-night morning sickness and flu combined and insomnia and a house cluttered up with...
Things that I have discovered, lo these many days of sick:1) Ginger ale does squat for my nausea.2) Except give me gingery burps.3) Peppermint tea helps a little bit.4) So do Peek Freans Chocolate-Covered...
So. Facking. SICK.It's been coming and going of late, but this week the all-day-all-night morning sickness has been coming with a vengeance. Lay-me-out-on-the-floor-and-wrack-me-with-nausea-when-I-should-be-packing-and-painting-and-trying-to-sell-a-house-and-oh-yeah-caring-for-my-very-possibly-bionic-toddler kinda vengeance.It sucks, it just really sucks. When do I start...
(Voila - now with picture!)We - Wonderbaby, Her Bad Father and yours truly - live in a house that is one hundred and twenty-plus years old. It is small and creaky and dusty and...
"Late Maternal Age," they call it. It's a fancy term for OLD MOM.I was not late of maternal age when I had Wonderbaby. I was not entirely early of maternal age, but still -...
A confession: I was deeply, deeply ambivalent about breastfeeding before I had Wonderbaby. I knew that I was going to try to breastfeed, I knew that I was going to try my very best,...
... for sweet babies and fat pumpkins and - because it's Canadian Thanksgiving - maple syrup and Leonard Cohen and universal health care.And, also, for boobies. Today's a good day to go look at...
I don't write here, much, about my moonlighting gig as a gossip blogger. Mostly because, I figure, if you like celebrity gossip, you probably already read Famecrawler, and also because there's just not that...
