This post originally appeared on DC Metro Moms on October 10, 2008 Yard Sign Blues This can’t be the right address. I checked my notes from the Freecycler’s email. This was the house. But it can’t be. There’s a John McCain sign in the yard. I looked back at my toddler son and thought, “Baby…
Activism & Politics
It’s 2008: Does he/she know where his/her children are?
Today it was in the Washington Post Style section that I came across the already-tired backpeddle, “We wouldn’t be asking these questions if Sarah Palin were a man.” I say: Bullshit. Although I concede that DeNeen Brown probably had to reference this position early on in her otherwise interesting and insightful piece on how women…
Show me your breastfeeding!
Breastfeeding is in the news a lot these days, in part because of protests over one woman being asked to cover her baby with a blanket while she nursed him at an Applebee’s. I didn’t make it to one of those protests, and I haven’t read everything under the sun about this. But after I…