Monthly Archives: January 2012
Parenting Isn’t Hard Syndicated at BlogHer
| January 19, 2012 | Posted by Issa under Blogging |
Last Monday I posted Parenting Isn’t Hard, and the lively comments rocketed that post to the top of my Most Popular list over on the sidebar. Thank you to all of you who joined in the discussion. Today, that post has been syndicated at BlogHer as No Excuses: Parenting Isn’t Hard. They haven’t been as talkative a bunch as you guys! I was nervous about what kinds of comments the post might generate, but so… Keep Reading
Diets Don’t Work
| January 18, 2012 | Posted by Issa under Fat Acceptance |
(Photo from Fat From the Side submitted by fiercefattyflavor who says, “On the runway modeling Size Queen designs. If you told me in high school that my fat, beautiful ass could do these things, I would have rolled my eyes. But I’m so happy to be walking the road of body acceptance, and doing all the things I never thought I could.”) When you talk about fat-discrimination, like I did a few posts back, there’s usually someone… Keep Reading
Lard
| January 17, 2012 | Posted by Issa under Kitchen |
Lard rendered from the fat of our own pig, then canned for storage. Beautiful. Keep Reading
Body Positivity and Healthy Sexuality Starts in Infancy
| January 16, 2012 | Posted by Issa under Parenting |
One of the things I hope for Dylan is that he grows up with a positive view of his body and the bodies of those around him and that he grows up with a healthy view of sex and his sexuality. As he gets older, those two things will diverge into different, huge topics, but here in his infancy they are close to the same thing. A positive view of the body sets the stage… Keep Reading
Flower Baby
| January 15, 2012 | Posted by Issa under Parenting |
Dylan was 2 1/2 months old in these photos, wearing a flowery onesie that won’t fit anymore when flowery weather rolls around again. These days he takes a lot of naps sleeping alone, but back here in August every sleeping moment was on either Joshua or me. Keep Reading
We’re All Criminals Here
| January 13, 2012 | Posted by Issa under Think About It |
A couple of weeks ago while driving, I came to an intersection with two dedicated left turn lanes – that is, I and the other drivers in my lane and the one next to us could turn left if and only if a left green arrow came on, and once we were in this lane there was no easy way out except to turn left. Something was wrong with the signal and the left arrow… Keep Reading
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