What Your Mother Has Done
A New York Times opinion piece about work/life balance (“A Toxic Work World“) is making the rounds and stirring up a storm of comments. The author points out, among other […]
Tag Archives: choice
Attention Cranky Hippie Ladies: you are promoting the wrong kind of feminism.
The power to define yourself rather than allowing society to define you by your gender or sexuality is the foundation of feminism. Mean people wear tie dye too. Attention Cranky […]
Why I Call Myself a Feminist
Labels are important. They tell you whats inside the can, they list the ingredients and they warn about potential danger. Labels can also be limiting. Labeling people by their socio-economic […]
Radio
Anyone who knows me knows that I am Pro-Choice, Pro-Abortion and Pro-Reproductive Justice. The objections people raise about other people having an abortion don’t move me. I find it ludicrous […]
Mom Club
My daughter asked the other day if I thought that being a mom was a big sacrifice because you have to do everything for your kid. I said I didn’t […]
Mercy
The other night I watched a movie about lateterm abortion. It was a documentary called “After Tiller” that followed four doctors who were colleagues of Dr. George Tiller the abortion […]
For & Against
The other day I attended a lecture hosted by the ACLU where Connie Schultz and her husband Senator Sherrod Brown were the speakers. Many interesting things were said about government, […]
Glass Houses
As it gets harder and harder to cobble together the time I need to put coherent thoughts in a blog post I am reminded of what a friend says about […]
Stay-at-home
I was reading an article the other day on the “new trend” of dads being primary caregivers which is trotted out as a new trend in the news cycle every […]
Bad Mommy
I work with a lot of highly accomplished women scientists who are invested in promoting gender equity in some traditionally male dominated areas. So I often hear lectures about new […]
Black Eye
I have a black eye. I woke up the other morning with a shiner like I caught a softball with my nose. No trauma, no injury, no logical explanation. I […]
God & Libertarians
Just finished Penn Jillette’s book “God, No!: Signs you May Already be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales“, a rambly, often funny interpretation of the ten commandments. This is not […]
Mustard
Sometimes I am a sucker for design. I recently tossed out an ancient tin of Durkee dry mustard that I think I borrowed from my mother years ago. And, while […]
Personal Choice
As much as it is on the tip of my tongue to rant about the idiotic and infuriating brinkmanship playing out in Congress today, I will refrain. Hearing the announcement […]
