The Pregnancy Years Clothing Delimma
When I got pregnant I never thought of the shape commitment lasting for years. Yes, I understood that a child is forever and I was (am) excited about that. However, I naively thought that pregnancy…
What’s in a name?
Peatuk-Antares. That is what we named our son. Perhaps we should have been more kind. Not even a month later and I am beginning to see how difficult his life will be. “Peatuk.” “Peter?” “No,…
A Birth Story
I generally pride myself on having very few concrete expectations, but for some reason my expectations about birth were different. They actually existed. The crunchy-granola hippie took over and I imagined that I would have…
Dog Training
I always say that I want a dog. They are so cute and friendly and fun. But honestly, I know that they are too much work and dedication for me. Some people work well with…
Drug addiction, death, and celebrity
For the past week my news feed and facebook has been littered with little snippets regarding the death of an actor, Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I want to start by saying I didn’t know the man.…
I feel…
The last few weeks of pregnancy just creep by. Although some of it is nerves- anxiety and excitement about meeting the little person who has been growing inside of me- a lot of it is…
Ethical Representation of … Burning Man?
I am thinking about representation these days. Last year I took a very powerful course on the Ethics of Representation in Anthropology. It used a historical approach to outline how the white, male anthropologist was…
Children as a confusing social… thing
Strangely enough in all of my studies in family development and sociology I never focused on how children are viewed by different social groups or children’s rights. I focused on marriage and alternative adult relationships.…
Pregnant Lady Checkout Line
Two of the stores I frequent in Bulgaria have very cool checkout lines, in theory. The first store has a line specifically for people who have small children and are not purchasing candy, cola, or…
The Pre-pregnancy Body
I was watching the L-word the other night and one of the characters slipped in an off-handed comment that she was, “still working to get her pre-pregnancy body back.” Just that, nothing more. Five years…