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Intermission

Life is: growing plans ever bigger, scrambling to keep up commitments already extant, deadlines long since missed and still looming ahead, inspiration abounding, dubious coping skills on the sly, perspective shifts vertiginous and plentiful, and never enough time when everything wants done now.

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Life is: a hand clutching a hand, a ring digging into flesh and [...]

Moments in time: a love letter

Welcome to the February Carnival of Natural Parenting: Love and partners!

This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month we’re writing about how a co-parent has or has not supported us in our dedication to natural parenting. Please read to the [...]

In his own time

There’s a post I’d been meaning to write for most of this last year, which was to be titled “Of babies and big boys”, on why my baby was still my baby, on how mystified I was on some toddlers’ and preschoolers’ insistence that they were not babies but were, in fact, a “big kid” [...]

Are you there, blog? It’s me, Arwyn

I think if I could focus on one thing for just an hour, I could do anything. The number of half-finished posts sitting in my queue is staggering. The number of further ideas I’ve had is uncountable (I lose count anyway, but then, if I could focus for an hour, I probably wouldn’t).

My mood has [...]

No more words

It may not exactly be a bad thing, considering a few days ago they wouldn’t shut the bleep up, and I was composing more posts than I could keep up with, composing posts while going about my day, composing posts while trying to parent my child, composing posts in the middle of praying — begging [...]

…now what does that mean in the real world?

This is a follow up to my post The personal and the political, and a response to this question from reader Rachel on Two things I do believe and several things I don’t:
…she said she and her husband chose to do [crying it out], he is involved in bedtime and it was a decision they [...]

Two things I do believe and several things I don’t

I believe “crying it out”* is not good. I believe it should never be the default method of sleep training, and I question whether “sleep training” is even the way we should think about babies and sleep. I believe it can be ever so slightly bad, or pretty bad, or very very bad, [...]

Watch this (plus links)

Major bow-down to Womanist Musings for posting this. It rocks so hard I have to share it everywhere. “Because, when the revolution finally comes, for all of us, it’s gonna be real.”

And a few more links in lieu of content:

On raising male children at Mothers for Women’s Lib

Not Feeling the Term “Passing” at [...]

The patriarchy loves the mommy wars

Dawn at this woman’s work has an interesting post up about should-ing on an already overwhelmed mother. She framed it as those self-righteous LLLers (these, I should say, as she was one of them) versus a woman who just needed to hear that CIO (the act of leaving a baby alone to “cry it out” [...]

Here, have a quickie

Since The Man surviving another round of layoffs today (his company is, we swear, trying to downsize itself out of existence) is a blessing that nevertheless makes me scared shitless, and I have 57% of my take home final (which is due at exactly 6:30pm tomorrow) left to do, oh, and I’m up waaaaaaaaaaay too [...]

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