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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

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

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

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

Making the scary or different okay

March 12, 2013 by Jessica 19 Comments

Welcome to the March 2013 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Tough Conversations 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 spoken up about how they discuss complex topics with their children. Please read to the end to find…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Featured, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: Carnival of Natural Parenting, flower essences, hard conversations, healing, parenting, race, tough conversations, tragedy

Food for thought

November 28, 2012 by Jessica 2 Comments

I can’t stand it. After 27 days of writing poetry, I want to write about nutrition! Aside from the fact that tomatoes are out of season and that I didn’t preserve any local ones, and aside from the fact that I’d once all but banned even gluten-free pasta from our house as a processed food…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: food, health, Holistic Health, Kaayla Daniel, NaBloPoMo, nutrition, poetry, real food, soy, thyroid

View from a purple state

November 6, 2012 by Jessica Leave a Comment

This election business poses a challenge for me.  Everyone is talking on Facebook about their hopes and fears, but, when I’m standing in my kitchen talking to my 6-year-old, I don’t want to talk too much about politics. My son just doesn’t need too much of the world on his shoulders. I wonder what truly…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: advocacy, diversity, election, NaBloPoMo, poetry, political parties, politics, presidential election, purple state, tolerance

Dishing on diapers on TV

September 7, 2012 by Jessica Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago, Robin Shirley, organizer of the amazing Take Back Your Health Conference, pointed out to me that Liz Crenshaw of NBC4’s Consumer Watch needed a group of local moms for a piece. I wrote the producer who told me Liz was doing a story on the cost of diapers. I hoped to…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Uncategorized Tagged With: cloth diapering, community, Consumer Watch, cost, diapers, economics, home, Liz Crenshaw, NBC4, tv

What’s to like about a c-section?

June 12, 2012 by Jessica 32 Comments

Welcome to the June 2012 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Embracing Your Birth Experience 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 have written about at least one part of their birth experience that they can hold up and…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, breastfeeding, c-section, Carnival of Natural Parenting, cesarean, home birth, homebirth, ICAN, placenta, water birth, waterbirth

Let them eat lunch, from home

February 20, 2012 by Jessica 7 Comments

Eating close to the source is something I’ve been working toward for several years, ever since I started trying to get my health on track in the face of major digestive issues, infertility, and Graves’ disease (autoimmune hyperthyroidism). I was almost embarrassed to request Barbara Kingsolver’s 2007 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: food, food politics, From Left to Write Book Club, nutrition, real food, thyroid

Now is the time for now

January 24, 2012 by Jessica Leave a Comment

The instant I read the words, I regretted picking up my BlackBerry that one last time before going to bed. A well-meaning relative of mine had read my recent post about my health and my leaky gut problem and told me: “This is not the time to volunteer for things.” She intended to point out…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: depression, family, healing, health, Holistic Health, home, mental health, mental wellness, nutrition, priorities, school, volunteerism, wellbeing

I have a daughter. That means a GIRL

January 10, 2012 by Jessica 2 Comments

Baby girl has been a little under the weather, so we’ve been spending more time together — less babysitter, no outings. There were lots of things I intended to accomplish in the past two days, but many of them had to just go out the window. Or, rather, she sat on my desk in front…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: boy, clothing, fashion, gender, girl, hair, priorities

Support wetlands in schools!

January 7, 2012 by Jessica 1 Comment

Campbell Elementary School in south Arlington is hoping to remedy a swampy (and sometimes icy) problem in its playground and turn the area into a wetlands learning lab. The school is a county-wide program that utilizes a hands-on curriculum called Expeditionary Learning. The wetlands learning lab will give students lots of opportunities to observe wildlife…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Uncategorized Tagged With: EarlySpace, ecology, environment, green, Groovy Nate, Nancy Striniste, natural landscape, outdoor play, play, playground, school, schoolyard, water, wetlands, wildlife

Keeping up with the news (when your baby won’t sleep)

November 16, 2011 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Homebirth, school lunch, small farmers, Wise Traditions conference, Blogalicious, that bee sting I got the other day … there is so much to write about. But when you spend close to two hours trying to get a baby to nap for 30 minutes, well, it’s tough to get it all in. My apologies for all…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Uncategorized Tagged With: news, priorites, writing, writing mother

On eating, blogging, and parenting

November 11, 2011 by Jessica 1 Comment

Being one of some 1500 traditional food enthusiasts here at the Weston A. Price Foundation Wise Traditions conference is humbling and exhilarating. So many people have regained health or healed their children through real food. The stories at the Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS diet) lecture alone were amazing. It’s easy in mainstream circles to…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: blogging, family, finances, home, marriage, money, priorities, real food, Weston A. Price Foundation, Wise Traditions conference

Wise Traditions 2011: Day Two

November 11, 2011 by Jessica 3 Comments

One in a series of reports from the Weston A. Price Foundation’s 2011 Wise Traditions conference in Dallas. Busy Crunchy-Chewy mama is processing and writing as fast as she can! See the first day post and Washington Times Communities article. Healthy notes from Day Two: I took a walk in the brisk morning on the…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: Branch Basics, Chaffin Family Orchards, Joseph Mercola, Monica Corrado, Radiant Life, thyroid, Vital Choice Seafood, Weston A. Price Foundation, Wilderness Family Naturals, Wise Traditions conference

Mindful holiday prep

November 8, 2011 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Hop on over to TheDCMoms.com to see my Green post today on making thoughtful plans as you head into holiday hosting. Let’s see if I can take my own advice this time.

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: green, holidays, mindfulness, rituals

Raw Milk Mommies rock!

November 2, 2011 by Jessica Leave a Comment

What a great turnout at yesterday’s rally to protest restrictions on the sale of raw milk. Here are some photos from the reporter mom perspective! For full coverage, check out my article at The Washington Times Communities Family Today Also visit Kimberly Hartke’s blog post about the rally. Or check out all this great coverage!…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: nutrition, raw milk, real food, Weston A. Price Foundation

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