I didn’t march yesterday. My heart wanted to, but my emotional capacity to handle it was non-existent yesterday. I was too fragile. So I didn’t march, but I lifted up all of the people marching, and I’m so proud of them all. I’m proud of them for standing up for women’s reproductive rights, standing against… Continue reading On Not Marching, and What’s Next
Hello! LONG TIME NO SEE! I have not posted to the blog in…just over 2 years. You probably thought I gave it up, huh? And mostly, I have – life has been so busy, writing blog posts was about the last thing I was able to think about. I have written two draft posts that… Continue reading Dia&Co Box – February 2016
Lord but I’m having some trouble finding both my creative mojo and time to exercise it to write blog posts. In the shower a couple weeks ago, though, I started reflecting on all the stuff we’ve found useful and/or entertaining over the course of the last year, and I thought, Hey! That might actually make a… Continue reading Holiday Gift Guide: New Parents (or parents-to-be) and Babies (up to 1 year)
My sweet baboo, my baby M., is a year old today. So much has happened this year, good and bad and indifferent, but the biggest life change we’ve had has been living with a whole new person. She delights me and frustrates me and makes my heart swell a million times over and causes the… Continue reading Reflections on a Year
Long ago and far away, I used to write a Monday Miscellany post that was full of exactly what it sounds like – random crap that caught my attention over the previous week. I don’t know that I’m going to do it regular-like (I seem to be having trouble doing anything regularly these days), but… Continue reading The Return of Monday Miscellany
Last month was crazy busy, as you might have guessed from the lack of posts! I’m back now, though, with an interesting bookish topic for you. A couple of weeks ago, I listened to the Bookrageous podcast’s 3rd Anniversary episode. For every anniversary show so far, they’ve taken listener questions via social media and email… Continue reading Personally Defining Books
So, apparently August is Breastfeeding Awareness Month. Which, I agree with Pregnant Chicken, is totally a weird name – surely, everyone is aware of breastfeeding. But I get the point, that it’s to promote knowledge about the benefits of and not-obscene-ness of breastfeeding, which is good. But I think it’s also good to just celebrate… Continue reading My Adventures in Baby Feeding
It’s been kind of a crazy week around here. I didn’t mention it in the last post, but my family lost a beloved family member unexpectedly and at too early an age about a week and a half ago, and we were at her funeral a week ago. One of our dogs was made extremely… Continue reading My Week, and My Eleven Questions from Becky
So, I co-organize a book club. We’re a Meetup group, open to anyone. It was not our group originally; we inherited it from a friend when she moved out of town, and she had likewise inherited it from another person when that person moved away. But we work hard to keep it friendly, to keep… Continue reading Misogyny at the Book Club
My niece came to visit us for a long weekend. We did all kinds of fun things, including a tour of three of Charlottesville’s cupcake vendors: old family favorite Cappellino’s Crazy Cakes, Richmond import that’s new to Charlottesville Pearl’s Cupcake Shoppe, and birthday party and candy-lover favorite Sweethaus. Over the course of the past 4… Continue reading Cupcake-a-saurus
Wishing Heart 