I’ve seen this all over the place, so I can’t really credit where I got it: If there is someone on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not…
Please Come Over To Raising_Sons
A comment exchange with selenite led me to finally create something that’s been on my mind for some time: Raising_Sons. There is a real need for resources for boys and their parents, alternatives to Boy Scouts, analogs to Daughters, New…
Random Resource Post
Looks like it might be helpful to some: T.E.A.R – Teens Experiencing Abusive Relationships That’s from the most recent free e-newsletter from Daughters, a marvelous publication/organization. Read the whole issue here (warning: PDF). You can get a free copy of…
I’ve Been Saying Fibro Fog Is Like Acquired ADD for HOW Many Years?
Distraction: Shedding Light on the Cognitive Underpinnings of Fibromyalgia Memory Loss Frank Leavitt, Ph.D. Frank_Leavitt@rush.edu Poor memory in fibromyalgia is probably one of its least recognized, but most disruptive forms of symptom expression. It profoundly affects the way people with…
Off to Use Up More Gas!
The girl woke up with a migraine. She has oral surgery today, so she might as well get all the feeling like crap over with in one day, right? Okay—I’d rather she didn’t have more ickiness on top of what’s…
Revisiting the April Divilbiss Case: Alternative lifestyles and encounters with the state
A nice lady wrote to me recently, provoked by my post about our DFCS experience. She wrote about it on her blog, too. The Divilbiss case was a topic of constant discussing in forums related to polyamory back in 1999.…
Poetry: The Helen Poems
Tuition Costs –Victor Depta From The Helen Poems I’d raised a child, practically as if the end were something I’d thought about prepared for, worked toward when, in fact, I was amazed how little time was left what with the…
Discuss, Please?
“Don’t teach all your children exactly the same thing. If you teach them all the same thing, and in the same way, they will come to believe they do not need each other. And that is no teaching at all.”…
For Those With Special Needs Children
Welcome to Holland I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability – to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel.…
Slapped by My Own Prejudice
So last week, curiousmay9 and I watched the first Queer As Folk DVD. I had no idea what the show was about, just the title. She’d seen it before. shadowkatt was coming and going, as usual. I found myself very…