Tag Archive: Progress

The Poetry of Sleep (deprivation)

Ideas and Babies By Yael Daphna Saar Before Ideas like babies wake me up demanding my attention in the middle of the night I am not complaining I sleep with a notebook under my pillow to catch my drips The dark circles under my eyes are a small price for the twinkle they sparkle After Babies wake…

Like, Like Me Do?

So this post is about procrastination, and facebook, and talking to my inner voices, and as always, validation. But first let’s digress a tad. Much that needed to happen this week didn’t even begin to happen (what was I thinking, that the 10 days with the folks visiting from the other side of the ocean,…

sprain, sprain, go away, go away…

What was I thinking, giving my 6 -year old a piggyback ride on our way back to the car from trick or treati’n in a neighborhood called, of all things, Fall Creek? While wearing Danskos?!?  Did I mentioned I hate  Halloween? The whole graveyard chic and the cheep costumes (cause that’s what the kid wanted, and…

packing for un-guilt trip

What do you pack for an UnGuilt trip? my very-partial list, in no particular order: my hot-pink mouse-ears fleece hat miss-matched socks matches a magnifying glass a compilation of  my favorite Ani Difranco’s  songs (Shameless!!) patience love humor: the self-deprecating kind (not to be confused with cynicism) works well, but silliness is even more effective…

Big-Girl website, yay!

After a great first meeting, and lots of positive community response, I’ve decided to take the plunge and actually pay for web-hosting. So now we have a big-girl website, with our very own domain name (got to love WordPress, but don’t have to have these words in our web address, right?), and a mailing list sign…

You are not the Only Freak in Town

5 minutes, 20 slides, a big room full of strangers and video cameras. I was shaking in my pants and had a quiver in my voice while I spoke about my quest to remove shame and guilt from the mothering experience. The crowd at Ignite Ithaca 2* was really supportive, I got hugs and encouragement…

Tag Archive: Progress

The Poetry of Sleep (deprivation)

Ideas and Babies By Yael Daphna Saar Before Ideas like babies wake me up demanding my attention in the middle of the night I am not complaining I sleep with a notebook under my pillow to catch my drips The dark circles under my eyes are a small price for the twinkle they sparkle After Babies wake…

Like, Like Me Do?

So this post is about procrastination, and facebook, and talking to my inner voices, and as always, validation. But first let’s digress a tad. Much that needed to happen this week didn’t even begin to happen (what was I thinking, that the 10 days with the folks visiting from the other side of the ocean,…

sprain, sprain, go away, go away…

What was I thinking, giving my 6 -year old a piggyback ride on our way back to the car from trick or treati’n in a neighborhood called, of all things, Fall Creek? While wearing Danskos?!?  Did I mentioned I hate  Halloween? The whole graveyard chic and the cheep costumes (cause that’s what the kid wanted, and…

packing for un-guilt trip

What do you pack for an UnGuilt trip? my very-partial list, in no particular order: my hot-pink mouse-ears fleece hat miss-matched socks matches a magnifying glass a compilation of  my favorite Ani Difranco’s  songs (Shameless!!) patience love humor: the self-deprecating kind (not to be confused with cynicism) works well, but silliness is even more effective…

Big-Girl website, yay!

After a great first meeting, and lots of positive community response, I’ve decided to take the plunge and actually pay for web-hosting. So now we have a big-girl website, with our very own domain name (got to love WordPress, but don’t have to have these words in our web address, right?), and a mailing list sign…

You are not the Only Freak in Town

5 minutes, 20 slides, a big room full of strangers and video cameras. I was shaking in my pants and had a quiver in my voice while I spoke about my quest to remove shame and guilt from the mothering experience. The crowd at Ignite Ithaca 2* was really supportive, I got hugs and encouragement…