If you can’t stand the heat…

I have a fridge full of vegetables and other delicious dinner-like items (although sadly no salad – I think someone overlooked the weather forecast before doing the weekly shop and I can be snide about it because that someone wasn’t me. I was too busy lying on the couch having ‘mummy time’.) Anyhoo, there’s ample food [...]

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Hello Little Bean

I was going to save this story for a post on Bean’s birthday but this post by blue milk got me thinking. Positive birth stories really do carry power, and not just for helping the currently pregnant overcome anxiety. We are bombarded with images of medicalised birth and the idea of birth-as-trauma is practically part of [...]

A Marriage Proposal

I spent Friday night at a friend’s wedding. I have to admit I love a good wedding. The sentimentality, the frock, the free drink… all of these appeal to my baser instincts. And the chance for a Bean-free evening is always a treat. Unfortunately, pretty much every wedding bears some reminder of what marriage has [...]

Serving to Live

Obama has talked a lot about service. Cynics say he’s trying to align himself with JFK (presumably minus the brains-being-blown-out part) and others say he’s just being practical – the mess is so big that it just can’t be cleaned without everyone mucking in. My money’s on a little of both.
I’ve talked about service a [...]

Bumper Bogans

You know those lessons you had at the start of the school term, when your teacher had clearly not taken enough time out from succumbing to drink and sloth to prepare a proper lesson and instead gave you a bunch of topics to write ‘getting to know you’ essays about? No? Well… I guess you never [...]

This I believe

Watching The West Wing used to feel a little masochistic. You’d spend an hour (or hell, seven) watching Jed Bartlet tackle the problems of the free and not-so-free world with intelligence and compassion in Make Believe Television Land, and then switch over to the news and see Dubya… well, you know how that sentence ends. It [...]

Lactation: the new Atkins?

Naomi Watts has been stepping her skinny self out into the spotlight, about a month after the birth of her second son. And because it’s apparently in her job description to have a skinny self (and because ‘journalists’ like those at Contact Music can’t find any other recycled guff to print) she’s inevitably had to justify and [...]

Chalk it up

Would it piss you off if a bunch of kids used chalk to draw all over the footpath and road in your quiet suburban street?
That’s the question raised by a poster on a messageboard I frequent. Her argument was that the school holiday chalk-fest is an eyesore and akin to graffitti training. Yep – those [...]

The Pollyanna Post

I’m wearing an underwire bra today and it doesn’t even have those clippy things for easy milk access. And it’s not beige. I don’t care if that’s too much information for you. I’ve waited more than eighteen months for this: and for someone with an E cup, that’s a lot of months of unsatisfactory support.
I [...]