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Article About Our Family

On: April 22nd, 2009 at 9:45 am | Number of Comments » 2

This article appeared in the Monticello Times, which is the area we used to live in. There a few inaccuracies, like Owen is 3 not 2, and the first birthday we celebrated he turned 2, not 1. For the most part it gets the main ideas though.
Enjoy!


Save Pushing Daisies!!!

On: December 3rd, 2008 at 1:16 pm | Number of Comments » 3

ABC has canceled the show Pushing Daisies. Please sign the petition to keep the show around! We need to keep the quality television on TV and not allow Reality TV to totally take over.


Don’t Mess With Mommy Bloggers

On: November 19th, 2008 at 12:44 am | Number of Comments » 2

Motrin recently pulled an ad that targeted babywearing moms. (Babywearing is when a parent wears their infant or young child in a sling, or harness on their body.) An article about the incident with a link to the ad can be found here. What is so odd about this ad is that [...]


Voting Updates

On: November 4th, 2008 at 5:04 pm | Number of Comments » 2

Me, about 5 minutes after voting!!! For the first time!

Owen and James coming back after video taping for a bit.

Owen and James with their Video The Vote badges. Owen got one when he went to the meeting with James last night.

James tries to take a picture with his camera phone to [...]


“Palin is Committed to Life” – huh?

On: September 24th, 2008 at 2:45 pm | Number of Comments » 3

Today on a discussion board someone made a comment about voting for McCain/Palin because of Palin’s commitment to life. This person said that we should make stopping abortion our number one priority. I disagreed. Here is how I responded:
Palin is only committed to fetal life, she’s rather anti any other type of [...]


Letter to Target About Their Pink Play Kitchen

On: August 25th, 2008 at 1:07 am | Number of Comments » 2

I just sent this letter of complaint to Target, who owns the toy manufacturer “Play Wonder”:
I recently walked down the toy aisle of Target in St. Paul, Mn. I was disappointed to find that the lovely blue and red “Play Wonder” kitchens had been replaced by a pink and white one. That was [...]


The Story of How I Left the Jehovah’s Witnesses

On: August 8th, 2008 at 2:28 pm | Number of Comments » 11

I left the Jehovah’s Witnesses two years ago this month. To commemorate the event, I thought I would write about my experience with leaving and post it here. It is incredibly long, but I think it is interesting **********************************************************************
My parents became Jehovah’s Witnesses in the early 1970’s. I was born in [...]


Breastfeeding Hero!

On: May 22nd, 2008 at 12:54 pm | Number of Comments » 1

From China’s earthquake disaster comes a breastfeeding hero!


Penis Enlargement

On: March 13th, 2008 at 3:11 pm | Number of Comments » 7

I get so many “penis enlargement” adds in my email junk folder it’s ridiculous. Why are so many men unsatisfied with the length of their penis? Oh yeah, maybe because most of the American ones had half of it chopped off as newborns. There is a huge difference between intact versus circumcised [...]


A Video That Will Get You Thinking

On: December 28th, 2007 at 2:08 pm | Number of Comments » 0