Can I just say how annoying I find the American obsession with poll-taking? They’ve become so institutionalized, we have come to regard polls as truth: not a reflection of people’s opinions, but a representation of reality. For instance, last week I ran across an article about a survey in which parents identified their own stress…
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Motherhood, Mostly (a 7QT post)
___1___ I’ve been so busy lately, I just now realized I never shared this! We are running a giveaway of This Little Light of Mine on Goodreads. Six copies available, to be “drawn” by Goodreads on May 1st. Click on over and sign up! ___2___ I think every woman–probably everyone–is well aware that the reproductive…
Read MoreMama Rabbit And Me
There’s a rabbit under the red maple in front of my house. It’s standing in a funny position, back legs on the grass, front legs up on the mulch. I’m about to turn away when suddenly there’s a flash of gray under its belly. A wiggle. Another flash. You know that cliché about hearts stopping?…
Read MoreWhen You Are Raising A Daughter With Special Needs (or: Borrowing Trouble)
It must have been the convergence of James Bond with a bedtime call from my sister, announcing the birth of her first baby, a girl. Maybe it was superimposing the image of her baby upon my own baby girl, no longer a baby, upon the image of the Bond girl, once victim of the sex…
Read MoreMaking Marriage Better
I’m qualified to write on that topic, don’t you think? 🙂 Today I’m sending you to a guest post I wrote. I’ve talked before about how the experience of infertility convinced me that planning our family naturally was so much more respectful of who I am as a human being in general, and a woman in particular. But…
Read MoreLiving Mindfully
I think most of us, most of the time, don’t think about what we’re doing. I think we live our lives on inertia, nudged by forces we’re not even aware of in directions whose validity we never question. Most of what we do is done on autopilot, a series of habits we’re not even aware…
Read MoreEnvironment, Family, and Planning
Not that long ago I wrote a blog post called Too Big For Me. I know the world’s problems are too big and too complex to be reduced to black and white. But there is a topic that most people consider closed, no longer worth debating, that warrants another look. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=birth-control-in-water-supply I’ve shared before what…
Read MoreThe Passing of the Baby Years
It crept up on me, this wistfulness. A feeling that these days are slipping away like pearls through my fingers. The way he looks at me and the wiggles settle into stillness. The way his whole face lights up when he smiles, just because I looked at him and said hello. Moments that make my…
Read MoreA Holistic, Natural Life
I’m posting today on a subject very close to my heart. I know that probably half of my readers think this topic has nothing to do with you, but I would like to invite each of you to take time to read it, even though it’s aimed at natural family planning users, because the point…
Read MoreThis Hallway
This hallway has figured in my dreams for months. I’ve always loved the hospital stay post-baby. Yes, there’s the pain and the constant interruption, the cramped spaces and bleary-eyed exhaustion of post-surgery and new baby. But there’s that sound, of plexiglass cribs on metal frames rat-a-tatting down the hallway. The knock on the door: “Nursery!”…
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Kathleen M. Basi 