Once upon a time I wrote about my life on a blog. Or in snippets here there and everywhere scattered across social media land. I wrote about my happenings, my wonderings, my thoughts and feeling and opinions. I wrote about my fears and my failures and my faux pas. I wrote about my secrets andRead more
I should tell you to set down your phone. I should tell you to STOP (in capital letters) and be in the present for a second. But I won’t. You’ve heard that before. Instead: I get it. In fact, I’m there right now. Sitting cross-legged on my yoga mat, writing this on my iPhone. IRead more
This is a saying we’ve heard many times and, as a woman, I’ve known it to be intimately true. My body is a political commodity. Bought and sold by big business, argued over by evangelicals, pinned up by the media, degraded by white men who have never met me. The personal is political works bothRead more
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Ah, I think I have it. I think the whole COUNTRY has it. Ready to be done with the ads and waste fillnig our P.O. box! Yesterday was Halloween. Duh. It was fun and we’re having a continuation of it today with a community carnival this evening. We went to a harvest party at aRead more
Bedtime is going great. It’s the middle of the night that’s a struggle. I can only do about one wake up where I put her back down because it takes me forever to fall asleep again. The second time I’m right back in bed with her. Only thing is, we put the trundle Ali andRead more
Today was the much anticipated parade. We left here at ten (Tony had a usabilty for 8-9am this morning and I had to shower so that was as quicky as we got ready). We got there about a half hour early and it was packed! At least downtown where we wanted to be. We wereRead more
I don’t know even where to begin anymore, so I’m trying to look back through pictures to guide my way. These first ones are from the day we left Portland, last Friday. It was pretty warm, whenthe sun was out but there were spotty clouds so…well, isn’t that the NW? Anyway, we almost always leaveRead more
We are all still recovering around here. It’s been a busy, crazy, and stressful few weeks. We lost our county by 31 votes. Which is basically 16 undecideds. While heartbreaking, it is really a victory considering we are in one of the poorest, whitest counties in the state. Typical Clinton demographics. Anyway, anyway. We areRead more