Boobies in the news: a special edition with just one story, told five slightly different ways with a reminder to not throw out the wheat while we separate the chaff.

My latest moral dilemma – giving my baby chicken pox. Or not. Am I a chicken?

How’s that for a blog post title? And after so many months of abandoning you! So, about that, sorry. It’s been busy and I am trying to sort out how to fit all the stuff I need and want to do. Writing is definitely in the ‘keep’ box, but it’s also something that requires me to have a chunk of quiet brain space and I just haven’t been carving that out very well lately. But I’m back and I’m going to talk a little bit [...]

I’ve been thinking some more about good mothers, bad mothers and how you tell them apart. And why “bad mothering” gets a better rap in some circles than parents who are doing their level best. The Boring MotherShe will not play trains (despite having done so for hours this morning), she will not fill up the sand table with water and she insists that paint needs to be applied to paint brushes and to paper only. She sits at the kitchen table sorting papers that [...]

I’ve been preoccupied with a story this week – and I’ve been trying to decide what it means. For a long time, I’ve followed themcdonaldfive blog about a family with three kids, the youngest a medically-fragile, beautiful 3 year old. I’ve been reading vigilantly thorough the spring as little Dakota has had a string of health problems and things looked pretty dire. Then, the unthinkable happened: someone sent me this link. Emily Beth McDonald, 23, was arrested after allegedly smearing feces in her daughter’s central [...]