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Musings on women's health, sexuality, and empowerment.
Are you one of the many women who struggles with painful menstruation or irregular menstrual cycles? The good news and the bad news is that you are not alone. Nearly half of women struggle with painful menses, or dysmenorrhea. Symptoms of imbalanced and painful menstruation Big emotional mood swings Unmanageable cramps leading up to or…
Read MoreSince March 15th, that fateful day when we got the call that school would be closed for 2 weeks, when people have casually asked me the date, I shrug my shoulders, smile impishly and say, “March?” A commentary on how days have felt the same since then in a certain way. As we approach the…
Read MoreLineage v Spherage The word lineage holds the implication that time is linear and governed by the projection of dicks over time. I credit Jwow for the verbiage. Lineage is the patriarchal perception of our ancestry over linear time. Spherage (Sphere-age). Thank you again JWow for the word magic. Words matter. Spherage. Perfect word. It…
Read MoreHow does a grown womban father herself? Many of us have done the work, or at least pondered the work, of what it means to mother ourselves. It is easy enough in that gendered way to imagine our adult female self mothering our child female self. I have never imagined how my adult female self…
Read MoreGrief felt insurmountable the other night. Like an undertow in the ocean, that takes us by surprise. In an actual undertow you would swim parallel to the beach as opposed to straight towards it. That is the way out of the rip tide. Swimming sideways, when we think we should be heading directly to shore. …
Read MoreHomeschooling in a pandemic: Trash Adventures Birch and I have been going on “trash adventures” into the woods around our house to collect garbage. We have now found multiple areas where people just dumped all their trash in the forest many years ago. Glass bottles, old ones. Shoes that have fallen apart. 1970s wallpaper. A…
Read MoreWhen nature and social studies meet…we get Trillium Essence. Birch and I went for a walk in the rain today. He saw a Bernie Sanders sign. He’s learning to read now, so he spent a moment sounding it out. “Ber-nie San-ders. What’s that Mom?” I explained that he was running for president for the next…
Read MoreIt seems the collective mission(s) are to slow the spread of the virus so as not to overwhelm the medical system and to save as many lives as possible. What is the value of life? And how do we value life? An extraordinary amount of earth resources and money are spent to “maintain life” medically…
Read MoreOne of Birch’s classmates parents sent out an email to all the first grade parents, which, like a global pandemic, is also unprecedented. I watched the flurry of responses about schedules and structured math and reading time come in. It seems like everyone has a very structured schedule! I noticed, seeing this after day 1…
Read MoreI wanted to address the the current situation with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) with you all, as I value our relationships and wish to assure you that your well-being is of utmost concern and importance to me. I will include some thoughts and reflections as well as some practical tips and my own office protocols to…
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