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Category Archives: Why I Shouldn’t Breed

  • On the New Jersey Moms Blog today, my friend Suzi mentioned her struggle to accept her body and not pass along body image issues to her very [...]

    Kids, Food and Bodies

    October 20, 2008
  • So, lots of people have been writing about (and e-mailing about) this new study that claims pregnant women who eat more calories are more likely [...]

    So Many Kinds of Wrong

    April 24, 2008
  • In comments on the Fat People are Big Fat Liars post, an interesting side discussion has cropped up about how parents deal with advocating for [...]

    Open for Discussion: Fat Kids

    January 2, 2008
  • For the second time in a week, I find myself wondering if the BBC is seriously just fucking with us. Just when you thought evolutionary theorists [...]

    Evolution Will Totally Make Us Prettier. Except for the Goblins.

    October 25, 2007
  • Solomon, as I was writing this. (Note blurred motion in tail area.) So, I started a whole long post about cooking this morning, which I will [...]

    Bad Mom Update

    August 24, 2007
  • The other day, I had two thoughts in a row. (I know, can you believe it?) 1. Oh my god, today was the best day ever! It was warm and breezy, and [...]

    On Nappies and Wiener Dogs and Depression

    May 26, 2007
  • Thanks to Cynical Girl for sharing the new Dove ad (er, Dove “film”), “Evolution,” which I’ve watched about half a [...]

    More Rambling about Body Image, Yoga, and My Shitty Childhood

    October 19, 2006
  • My new favorite blog: Control Your Kids. I’m way late in weighing in on the Taste of Heaven controversy, but oh well. The bug remains up my [...]

    Remind Me to Start Going to Taste of Heaven Every Day

    March 1, 2006
  • In my first ballet (or, uh, “ballet”) class, when I was three, the teachers once told us that our dancing task for the day was to become [...]

    A Beige Butterfly Ponders Procreation

    December 6, 2005
  • Reason number 80 kabillion why I should not have children: some days, I can barely tolerate the transition from sleeping to waking, and I will [...]

    It Deepens Like a Coastal Shelf

    October 20, 2005
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