Hugo Schwyzer on Laura Bush calling herself a feminist:
What heartens me about the First Lady’s use of the term to describe herself is that it serves as a useful corrective to the “I’m not a feminist, but…” view we hear so often from conservative young (and not so young) women. By embracing the word [...]
I finished my Sew? I Knit! bag today, after chucking the one I was working on and starting over again at the last minute. Now I can go back to sewing diapers without feeling guilty.
The pregnancy seems to be going fine–the baby was scooting around too much for the midwife to count heartbeats at our last visit. I’m starting to maybe feel him or her move–it’s hard to tell.
It’s nice that Target has maternity swimsuits, but why are their swimtops all far too short to cover a pregnant [...]