In an effort to get through my growing library of books I’ve decided to do a book review every 2 weeks. That should hold me accountable to making reading a priority! I love reading and I love writing, so a book review is in order. I just finished a very witty and insightful book by Lenore Skenazy...

Another “story” from Annie Leonard.  If  you haven’t switched back to the tap, this story may inspire you.  While, I believe that most tap water is safer than bottled water (due to lack of regulation in the bottled water industry), we still use a water filter to filter out a little...

The Case Against Homework by Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish Every parent should read this book! (Maybe even aunts, uncles and grandparents.) The Case Against Homework by Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish was an eye opener. Whether your child is of school age or will be soon, enrolled in public or private...

I should be cleaning out the garage for our final garage sale before we move to London in 2 weeks, but something has been on my mind since yesterday.  My good friend, who I moved to California with ten years ago came up from Los Angeles and had a visit with us.  She came with my mom, son and me to...

Welcome Carnival of Breastfeeding Readers! This is a reposting of my very first post at Pure Mothers! I thought it was fitting for World Breastfeeding Week. I was at a playgroup with my baby the other day when a mother brought up the topic of sign language for babies and said that her daughter was beginning...

I’ve been wanting to write about this for a long time; since I read the little white tag attached to my nursing pillow.  Unfortunately, I was prompted to read this tag long after I stopped using a pillow to nurse my son. What I read horrified me. I was distraught and defeated and felt so betrayed....

I have something called PPA, or what I call, Plastic Packaging Awareness.  I’ve had it for a few years now -since I first became pregnant.  I think I acquired it through motherhood; but it came on slowly.  I was thrilled to find Beth’s website at www.fakeplastcifish.com to learn...

Most of the blogs I follow are of the “green” persuasion, but I have a few others that draw me in because of their beautiful, breath-taking photography or just darn delicious recipes.  (I want to think I could cook like that one day.) Lucullian’s Delights Food Blog lures me in...

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If I want to get anything done, I need a To-Do List.  I can prioritize and organize, and I get extreme satisfaction from checking things off the list when they are done. I am a little OCD and I have about 6 planets in Virgo. That may explain my obsession with lists. Lately, I’ve had a lot of...