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(Because sometimes it’s hard to find a tasteful illustration. Image source.)
Speaking of babies… Now that one of my favorite people has become a doula, I’ve suddenly been exposed to many more articles about babies and their welfare. Also, I’ve learned the word “doula.” This explains how I ended up reading zippy [...] 
Last month, I read Marriage, a History: from Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz. Spiffy title, eh? The book’s even better!
I will not attempt to summarize this book. For one thing, it’s over 400 pages long, and them pages is dense. (Not like those 20 large-print-words-per-page [...] 
I have long loved this old Peggy Orenstein post, and I’m tempted to reference it almost daily.
It was only a matter of time before I read Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture. I enjoyed the first edition mightily (haven’t seen the 2012 [...] 
(Image source) Mama Said: Once many many years ago our Bishop stopped me in the multi-purpose room to say “Sister W-, you always look so radiant and lovely.” This shocked me right out of my manners and I am shamed to say I blurted out, “Lovely?? You should see me at home in [...] 
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” - Albert Einstein in a letter to Jost Winteler, 1901. Look at that face! That dapper child was BORN to question authority. (Image source)
( A flashback to October 27, 2008. Nothing like a good parable for a Sunday morning, eh?)
(“You gosh darn heathens! I’ve got half a mind to let you all drown THAT’S RIGHT I SAID IT.”) I don’t have a car. For me, getting to Wal-Mart requires at least three hours and [...] 
(Image via Wikimedia Commons) “The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.” -George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, 1903 [...] 
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In conversation, I refer to Ian as my “boyfriend,” despite the fact that he’s well past boyhood and our relationship is more than friendly. Manfriend? “Lover” might be more accurate (if soppy), but I’d be afraid to say it in most social settings. Should we resurrect POSSLQ? [...] 
(Source of these delightful images) Back in November, I started doing something I’ve meant to do for a long, long time. Changing my underwear. No, that’s ridiculous; the underwear has to want to change. What I REALLY started: self-defense classes. Specifically, a combination of Krav Maga and [...] 
Years ago (summer 2008?), I decided to get my right ear cartilage (“helix”) re-pierced. When I informed my friend Celia, she asked “Would you like me to come and hold your hand?” This struck me as a ridiculous offer. I was a big girl, past twenty. Do sturdy, strapping women need hands to hold?
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