I grew up in the South where you’re always welcome in just about anybody’s house. When you arrive, for whatever reason you’ve come, they invite you in, ask how your Mama’s doing and offer you supper…or at least pie. Anything … Continue reading
Tag Archives: breaking rules
Funny Friday – Convos with Hannah – Let’s talk about sex
I mentioned last week in my Funny Friday piece that we talk with our kids a lot about awkward subjects…sex, periods, prostitutes, the nesting habits of rare birds, why a baby might resemble the mailman and so forth. Nothing is … Continue reading
Lies You’ve Been Told about FAT
Yep, we’ve been swashbuckled, hornswoggled and hoodwinked. The diet dictocrats of the good ole’ US of A have convinced us of all sorts of quackery, including FAT being bad for us. In recent years, they’ve been slowly back-pedaling their previous … Continue reading
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings By Maya Angelou The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wings in the orange sun rays and dares to … Continue reading
Birth is Personal: When you don’t get your orgasmic birth
Obsession Ever since I squeezed out my first baby in 2003, I’ve had a slightly macabre fascination with all things labor and birth. I’ve read countless stories, watched many a Youtube video (I highly recommend this as entertainment) and of … Continue reading
Land of the Free? Next thing I know I’ll be wearing gov’t issued underwear
Am I from Generation:Rotten? Perhaps I’m just a part of the “me” generation and I’m so caught up in myself that I’m being dramatic. Possibly, I’m just too young and selfish to realize my freedom and adequately appreciate it. Maybe … Continue reading
All Disease Begins in the Gut: Cure Yourself with Food!
All Disease Begins in the Gut Four hundred years before Christ was born, a guy named Hippocrates said that all disease begins in the gut. When I was a teenager, my mom would shake her head and tell me that … Continue reading
The Road Not Taken
The Road Not Taken BY ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where … Continue reading
Life Outside the Cage (how to free yourself from conventional wisdom)
How I got here I think I’ve always rejected the status quo. I’m not sure if it was my upbringing or any particular thing my parents taught me or if I was born with it coursing through my veins. I’ve … Continue reading