Bella Redux
So, I wrote this thing for The Hairpin about Twilight and the "empowered" heroine the other week, and it kind of blew up beyond my expectations. The piece engendered (heh) some interesting...
View ArticleBreastfeeding Isn't Free
One of the things you encounter in most neutrally-toned parenting handbooks that tiptoe their way through the feeding-your-baby minefield is this fact: "Formula is expensive."And it is a fact. Formula...
View ArticleFeeding the Baby
Here is the follow-up breastfeeding story that I posted over on my Boob Tumblr, Feeding the Baby:This is what we do, now that Ames is four months old: When Ames naps, I hook up to the breast pump for...
View ArticleAn Interesting Planet
I was just thinking of this passage, from a book with a character after whom we (sort of) named Ames, and I got the urge to post it here. So here it is! From Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, Reverend Ames...
View ArticleBodies and Minds
I've never really been too afraid of childbirth. That is, until the last couple of weeks. I think I had some Braxton Hicks contractions the other day and it just put me in a really bad mood for the...
View ArticleBelly Girl
Belle is a sweet girl. Her full name is Isabel Archer, after one of my favorite literary characters, the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, and also (of course) a little bit after Archie....
View ArticleBreastfeeding Isn't Free
One of the things you encounter in most neutrally-toned parenting handbooks that tiptoe their way through the feeding-your-baby minefield is this fact: "Formula is expensive."And it is a fact. Formula...
View ArticleFeeding the Baby
Here is the follow-up breastfeeding story that I posted over on my Boob Tumblr, Feeding the Baby:This is what we do, now that Ames is four months old: When Ames naps, I hook up to the breast pump for...
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