JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Mothers, let’s unionize! If only we had benefits…like sick time. Last week I caught a bad cold and now my two year old and I have pink eye. Our insurance coverages are sufficient and I’m not hoping for a pension, retirement account or many other perks that can come with employment and [...]

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Heather Armstrong yesterday wrote:

Last night we were at a neighborhood Christmas party when one of the neighbors I have never met walked up to Leta and me and asked how old she was. When I told him she was ten-months-old he asked if she was “walking all over the house” yet. I answered, simply, “No.”
He [...]

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Cavorting with puppets, a purple hippo and plenty of children, friends and family, all to celebrate Michaela’s and a friend’s fourth birthdays! (the girls were born on the same day, but had separate parties on Saturday)

Four years already since Ted and I caught the last boat off the island (at 1:30 am) and headed to [...]

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Before we left on our vacation, I spied Lisa Williams’ post on modern motherhood but I didn’t have time to link to it. Since then Rayne has also written a thoughtful and provocative post on how it ain’t easy to be a mom today.
I think there are a number of reasons why parenting seems to [...]

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Friday on the radio I heard Slate’s Assessment: Let’s Get Rid of August

David Plotz of Slate offers a cheeky commentary on why the month of August should be eliminated, or at least shortened.
Plotz’s plans for August lack one key feature: familiarity with the month. He quips that most people don’t know whether it has 30 [...]

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Michael Williams has been running a short series on breastfeeding in public; his first post was published while we were on vacation. Many comments were made on the first post so I will offer only three brief ones here. As reference for the record, I will state that I have spent more than three years [...]

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What two days of attempting to toliet-train a toddler (enticing her with banana chips) can do to you…
At least as a mom, I can take comfort in Shimon’s piece: Failure Is Normal…

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It’s my habit to try to peek at my aggregator here and there throughout the day. It’s a form of snacking, I suppose. A way I relax for a moment or two while I stand by my computer in the kitchen. A little escape.
Yesterday was intense for me and I was working with one of [...]

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This week getupgrrl at Chez Miscarriage has been describing unkind statements made to infertile women and the differences between the primary and secondary infertility communities. Her thoughtful posts provoked some more thoughts in me.
The unspoken admonishment running through all these statements is that wanting more is something women aren’t supposed to do. But every blessing [...]

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Gretchen Ritter in her piece The messages we send when moms stay home published in the Austin-American Statesmen (registration required) described why “full-time mothering is bad for children”, women, men and society.
I found her essay through my homeschooling yahoogroup and I’ve seen a number of rebuttals to her piece.
However, I wanted to link to [...]

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