• Archive for February, 2012

    visibility

    by  • February 23, 2012 • earthmama • 1 Comment

    Mothers are invisible: they are not who you invite to late, drunken parties. People think that mothers don’t want to stay out late, can’t go and party, have relinquished their drive to dance crazy and make out in nightclubs. Often mothers aren’t even invited to some events because the hosts assume they are either...

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    just swallow it

    by  • February 1, 2012 • starbaby • 0 Comments

    The sequence of events goes like this: my toddler eats a while, and then a texture inexplicably upsets her. Instead of spitting it out or swallowing it, she opens her mouth, extends her tongue, and cries. She has held her mouth open for up to ten minutes, just crying, with the saliva pooling up...

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