After a 24 hour social media break challenge posed to me by my running coach, I caught back up on my building "Bak-Bak group" and noted that many women had seen and given high review ratings for the movie "Pink". None had said anything articulate or specific about it except that it was a "must watch ( Read more... )

This time of transition is dragging out a bit. With illness, I am not able to move as quickly or fully enjoy the tempests of the time ( Read more... )

Today, 7 years ago, a boy had died before he was born. Well loved even at barely 6 months of formation, this innocent child represented many struggles, and highlighted just how early parenting responsibilities begin. His heart was significantly mal-formed. He wasn't going to survive birth, or if he did, it would be at great cost (not just ( Read more... )

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Women and StartupsA well written article. Nothing I didn't know, and nothing that I hadn't already articulated before. But it's great to have it in words from a credible source. The more I explore motherhood, the more I answer my questions on what life should be about - achievement, enjoyment or atonement. For me the choices were truly only the ( Read more... )

I am not a drinker of coffee
I prefer an occasional tea
Once I had a child, I thought
I'd need caffeine quite a lot
But I've learned I don't need it to wake me

With a child I have an alarm of a new sort
Whether I'm ready to wake up or not
She sits bolt upright
Oozing pure joy and delight
An addictive, new, good morning shot

I have previously thought that there are two fundamentally different world views - one that the world is basically a good place where you have to be careful about the occasional deviant. The other is that the world is basically a place full of wrongdoers, and that one is better off constantly watching their own backs ( Read more... )

Insecurity is a triple edged sword. It has the traditional double sharp edges of any sword that cuts whichever way you slice, but it also wounds the hand that holds it ( Read more... )

Looking back at photos of my precious infant, I can see them more objectively now than I could before. Most of those newborn photos are not at all that attractive. But I sure thought she looked just too cute for words.

It's a good thing that genetics and evolutionary biology took over :-)