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Day 3 of daily writing: a poem out of season

November 3, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

My goal for NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) will be to write daily: I will aim to write a blog post and also, for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) to do at least 15 minutes of writing on my novel every day before 6:45 a.m. I might not get the blog piece posted with a photo until…

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Filed Under: The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: NaBloPoMo, NaNoWriMo, poetry, writing, writing mama, writing mother

The desire to write: swallow and spit

November 2, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Some might say if you can’t reflect, then just live instead. I like the concept, but in practice, it drives me crazy. How people live and live and live and manage to be happy only posting about it on Facebook and not writing about it in long form — or to at least have time…

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Filed Under: Featured, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: childcare, illness, NaNoWriMo, NoBloPoMo, priorities, writing, writing mama, writing mother

The beginning of some kind of writing: starting NaBloPoMo

November 1, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

The heft of a child against your chest The sitting of a raindrop on a leaf The turning of the calendar on the wall The dirtying of dishes at the table The coming of a holiday or any day without consulting your level of preparation   These things are humbling inevitable and all there is…

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Filed Under: Featured, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: NaBloPoMo, poetry, priorities

How to do only one thing at a time: a work in progress

October 25, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I’m a lucky woman. I get to do a lot of cool things. This morning, I got to take my kids to their great public school, an Expeditionary Learning school, where children start every day Monday through Thursday with a morning meeting and start every Friday with a community meeting. I love that they see…

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Filed Under: Featured, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: art, Femworking, marriage, priorities, relationships

Taking steps toward wellness

October 5, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

It’s nice to end the day feeling better than you started. My plan was to get to the Stress-Less Expo, organized by Gainesville Holistic Health Center with the support of the Tony Robbins‘ team and Dahn Yoga, among others, to begin raising awareness and funds for the Whole-listic Children’s Foundation‘s project to create a holistic…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: Amethyst BioMat, Blue Skies Wellness, Dahn Yoga, Gainesville Holistic Health Center, MTO Kombucha, Whole-listic Children's Foundation

On blogging and living (simultaneously)

October 3, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Everything changes, but what is important never does. That is the biggest lesson I’ve learned from parenting, and I think if I work hard enough, I can apply it to blogging as well. When I was a high school English teacher, back before I became a mom, I was constantly busy reading papers, or thinking…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: blogging, Femworking, priorities, Tracy Grant, working mom, working mother, writing mother

On nostalgia and novels

October 1, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

It was a throwback week.  And a week of looking ahead. Nearly three months after we were supposed to get together for coffee but got thwarted by a health issue followed by travel and a book launch (not mine), my high school friend and thriller author Allison Leotta (nee Harnisch) and I finally had lunch,…

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Filed Under: The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: Allison Leotta, Cheryl Strayed, childcare, family, health, priorities, relationships, Speak of the Devil, time, Wild, writing mama, writing mother

Believing in work (and parenting): Femworking conference interview and reflections

September 30, 2013 by Jessica 4 Comments

What a delightful conversation I had last week with Kelley Sanabria, founder of Femworking, LLC and Nicole Dash, author of Tiny Steps Mommy blog and the co-chair with Kelley of the upcoming Blogger and Small Business Conference taking place in Arlington on October 26. They offered a discount for covering the conference for TheDCMoms.com, and…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Featured, Holistic Health, The Arts Tagged With: blog, blogging, business, Femworking, health, Holistic Health, small business, working mother, writing mama, writing mother

Life purpose manifesto: Why I want to start a business

September 12, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

One step forward, two steps back. After yesterday’s post on my health journey and optimism for the future, I hit something of a wall last night that had me questioning myself and the purpose that had seemed so crystal clear just hours earlier. I tearfully emailed my energy work practitioner at 11:30 p.m. when, wide-eyed…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Featured, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized

Reflections on the healing journey: summer into fall

September 11, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

“You’ve come a long way,” said the Total Body Modification practitioner as I listed my areas of improvement along with my concerns. When I started seeing her in the spring, I was struggling, as noted in “Morning with a High-Maintenance Mama.” I’d come out of a bad winter cold and a digestive crisis but was…

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Filed Under: Featured, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: adrenal, blood sugar, Brain, Child Magazine, healing, healing journey, ionic foot soak, sleep, Total Body Modification

Breastfeeding and birth celebrated in book, film, conferences

August 23, 2013 by Jessica 1 Comment

Birthing and breastfeeding have been on my mind a lot lately for a woman whose days are normally filled with talk of baseball and potty time. My seven-year-old son weaned four years ago, and my daughter, who just turned three, lost her access to my breasts at 22 months when my health was just struggling…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Featured, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, Birth Story, Birth Without Fear, breastfeeding, Breastfeeding Center for Greater Washington, Breastmilk the movie, Have Milk Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding, HBAC, homebirth, Ina May Gaskin, MommyCon, Nuroo, Sara Lamm, The Business of Being Born, The Leaky Boob

Allison Leotta – mom, author, high school locker neighbor

July 27, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Back in the day, thriller author Allison Leotta was Ali Harnish. That’s only a few letters — and one Kelly Hardin locker — away from yours truly, Jessica Haney. These days, Ali and I are both moms living in the DC metro area, and we both like to write. Ahem. Maybe the similarities stop there….

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, The Arts

How TV and books influence our thinking about tough subjects

July 27, 2013 by Jessica 1 Comment

Television may have informed my opinions even more than I previously thought. Sure, I’ve complained for years about how I watched too much TV as a child. How I learned social skills by way of backstabbing wives on “General Hospital.” How the girl and girl and guy of “Three’s Company” were as much a part…

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Filed Under: The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: Elizabeth Silver, From Lef, From Left to Write, The Execution of Noa P. Singleton

Summer events for the green and healthy family

July 26, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

All the events that are fit for green and healthy families this summer into fall 2013. Share what I’ve missed and I’ll add it! Friday, July 5: Book Release and Signing Party for Beyond Bacon by Paleo Parents bloggers Stacy and Matt, Red Apron Butcher, 8298 Glass Alley, Fairfax, VA, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Wednesday, July 17:…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Featured, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health Tagged With: calendar, events, Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, Green Festival, Polyface

BlogHer arrival day

July 26, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

My computer and my body think it’s 12:22 a.m., but Chicago registers pre-midnight. Regardless of the time, I’m not out partying at #BlogHer13 but am instead doing what I so rarely get a chance to do: sit in front of my computer without interruption. This is what some would call bliss. Couple that with the…

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Filed Under: Featured, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: BlogHer13, Boiron, Dodge, Samsung, Walgreens, Yiva

Teaching diversity: tales from public school

July 9, 2013 by Jessica 12 Comments

Welcome to the July 2013 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Learning About Diversity This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month our participants have shared how they teach their children to embrace and respect the variety of people and cultures that…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Featured Tagged With: community, diversity, Expeditionary Learning, language, languages, public school, schooling

Paleo Parents pen new book, Beyond Bacon

July 2, 2013 by Jessica 2 Comments

My daughter learned how pigs sound from our trip to Polyface Farms just after she turned two. Since then, every time she’s gleefully snorted, I smile knowing she gleaned that skill right from the source, frolicking right alongside the pasture-raised pigs at Joel Salatin’s farm in Swoope, Virginia. Maybe she’d first picked it up in…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Featured, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health Tagged With: Beyond Bacon, farm, Paleo Parents, Polyface, sustainable farming

June events for the green and healthy family

June 20, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Here is a round-up of June 2012 events for your green and healthy family. Leave a comment for others I should add! I hope that in May you submitted your school’s information to the International School Grounds Alliance so they can document what is happening in schoolyards around the world. See http://greenschoolyards.org/ for more info!…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Featured, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: calendar, events, gluten-free, green home, healthy and green family, home and garden, Mind the Mat, Virginia Yoga Week, Washington Folk Festival, yoga

Parenting in the land of compromise

June 11, 2013 by Jessica 21 Comments

Welcome to the June 2013 Carnival of Natural Parenting:   Parenting in Theory vs. in Reality This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants are sharing how their ideas and methods of parenting have changed. *** The surprises…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Featured, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health Tagged With: adrenal fatigue, Ayurveda, GAPS diet, nutrition, Paleo, priorities, public school, rhythm, school, stress, Waldorf education, writing mother

Sharing our stories: a friend documents war rape

May 22, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

There’s been plenty of talk lately about sexual assault in the U.S. military. I have a friend who has been trying for years to share the stories of women who have been the victims of war rape. When she and I were seniors at Kalamazoo College, Ivana Ivkovic helped put on an impressive feminist conference…

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Filed Under: Featured, The Arts Tagged With: Bosnia, Ivana Ivkovic Kelley, Persephone Speaks, war rape

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