The Care and Feeding of the Natural Male Penis
No, this isn’t the post where you all learn I’m secretly a porn mogul. Sorry to disappoint. (And, Dad, sorry to scare.) My title seemed to fit since I’m only passingly familiar with the Male Penis (Male Penis? Is there another kind? Ok, let’s just go with Penis) in the way that most heterosexual women are. Furthermore, although I’m obviously vehemently against the mutilation of the infant penis through circumcision, I’ve never actually seen a Natural Penis* in the Wild. The primary** Penis in my life, while Unnatural in that the...
Read MoreWhat Little Kids Learn from Cinderella
This certainly deserves an in depth post but for now just for a laugh (we laugh because it is...
Read MoreBlogging, Hosting, and Getting Hacked
So, you’ll notice the website is changed. If you’ve been with me a while then you’ll recognize the theme as an old one I had used. Last week someone hacked my account and put up a phishing site. My site was shut down by my host (BlueHost) and when I called in they said *I* had to clean it up. Now, I design websites and I can write HTML, Javascript, php, etc. but I know fuck all about the backend of all this. I thought that was why I was paying $80+ a year for a host! I was wrong. Not only was it my responsibility to fix the hack but if I didn’t BlueHost...
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Welcome to the Baby Dust Diaries! My little slice of the web for sharing my journey to motherhood and beyond! Infertility. No one thinks it will happen to them. In reality, fertility – something we take for granted – is a miraculously coordinated orchestra of hormones and timing. In couples suffering from infertility (IF) a part (or parts) of the orchestra are not playing in key. Just one wrong note makes the seemingly simple task of procreation extremely difficult. For 9 years I was a mother without a baby. Now, with my miracle IVF baby, I’m transitioning into the...
Read MoreHolistic Education (“unschooling”) FAQs
I had a wonderful discussion with some friends about homeschooling. Some are questions even “regular” homeschoolers have about child-led learning which I like to call Holistic Education but is also called unschooling or deschooling. I’d love to hear your questions too! Question: There are basic things in life that we need to know. What about math? I agree there are basic things that we *need* to know. The “what about math” question is one of the most frequently asked questions about “un”schooling. How will they learn math if they choose what...
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