I was just looking through some old things and organizing our office when I realized that one year, I had just returned from my 2 month trip to the Philippines. So much has changed in one year as Nick and I have settled into jobs, our first house, our 4th year of marriage, and, now, […]
Author: Lisa
A Comparative Free Write: The Wedding Industry vs. The Baby Industry
Crossposted at Feministe Lately, my thoughts have been swirling around one comparative question: What’s worse – the wedding industry or the baby industry? Recovering my 2004 journal, the year I was engaged, I see loopy sketches of my fiancée with the word “love” underneath and short poems exploring life and commitment. To describe my decision […]
Observation
Isaiah is kicking, punching, elbowing, and pushing as much as Nick is cleaning these days. That is a lot.
GEDs and LBJ Sighting
Nick has decided to do some volunteer work. You know, for people like Nick, for people who already work in faith-based ministry, people who spend at least 8 hours of everyday working for the betterment of someone’s spiritual enlightenment, doing volunteer work may fill a void to actually DO something for other people.[in case you […]
Raising Isaiah
Cross posted at Feministe I think you should simply spare the little mongrel parasite from the burden of her life so that you can more fully experience the pleasure of a lifestyle unfettered by the Christo-fascist “reproduction memes” that are genetically engraved in the our DNA by the authoritarian patriarchy. Think about the lifetime “carbon […]
Week 20
I’m officially at the halfway point of my pregnancy. After yesterday, and finding out the news that “it” is now a “him,” or (preferably) now Isaiah, I feel a certain solidness about life. Not that Nick and I haven’t been fully aware of the baby before, but, as I predicted it would for us, knowing […]
Isaiah Factora Borchers
8:45am“This is the brain.” “Here’s the spine.” “Right here is a hand.” “Your baby’s face profile…” Then the ultrasound techie asked, “Do you want to know the baby’s sex?” YES. “You are having a boy! Definitely, for sure. Right here, [points] that’s a boy part.” For the next 10 minutes or so, we get all […]
Conversation This Morning
Nick: Can you believe that TOMORROW we’ll know if we’re having a boy or girl? Me: Truly, it’s unreal. Nick: (staring at the ceiling in thought) Oh! I thought of something else that we might want to buy. Me: In addition to the gazillion things – like a crib, stroller, rocker, bottles, diapers… Nick: (turns […]
The Last Ungendered Day
I started using the self-descriptive term “feminist” about five years ago and although my life’s work to create a better world extends much longer than those five years, the lens of feminism – my feminisms, to be precise – has positively enhanced the way I experience and percieve the mystery of socialization and gender. Tomorrow, […]
Summer Storm
The breath of God swept this tree to fall east – toward the street – and not southeast, which would have been straight into our beloved home. Yesterday, around 3-4pm, an unusually fierce storm swept through some parts of Cleveland. Working on the west side of Cleveland, I saw claps of lightning and bowling ball […]