My mother told me that the baby will feel all that I will feel. In relation to a high sodium/sugar diet warning, or a lesson about high blood pressure, it seems like an appropriate lesson to understand about the effect I have on the fire growing inside me. And then I wondereed if my baby […]
Author: Lisa
This Pregnant Feminist Will Eat You Alive
Everything’s changing. The moment was actually split. Plural. There were two realizations that changed my life. One was the moment I knew I wanted to be a mother. The second when I realized I was pregnant. Those two moments were distinct and both charged with a transformative power difficult to express. The moment I knew […]
Is the World Ready?
Everyone who knows keeps asking, “Are you ready?” And all I keep thinking, “Are WE ready? It’s more like is the WORLD ready for another human who is 1/2 me and 1/2 Nick?” Yes, friends, family, and loved ones, the day has finally arrived, if you haven’t already guessed from small leaks (or as Nick […]
Speak! Speak! Speak!
Pump up the volume and enjoy.
A Dip into the Valley of Darkness
Sometimes the sports world makes the rest of the world too depressing to deal with. Last night, the famous four (Me, Nick, Christina, and Brian) gathered around their monstrously clear flat screen to watch the flat screen effect of the Magic against the CAVS. Sometimes it just hurts and the pain of defeat zaps all […]
Choice and Memorial Day Weekend
When I think of all the people and their families who have served in some capacity for their country, I think of my options. And my fortune. And my privilege. I think of the secrets that the public does not know or want to know of our military. I think of a former colleague, a […]
Get on the Train
Embedded video from NBA Video Thanks be to God for the glory of spring. But, why God, why, must the lush green beauty come at such a price to my health? My throat and nose are clogged with green as well. It’s just disgusting and not the lush kind green outside, but the sick, disgusting […]
Like Father, Like Son
Two words: car accident. UGH. Minor, but any form of a car accident has a ripple effect. It puts these tiny but significant wrinkles in your day. Nick was at a complicated 4 or 5 way stop, turned into the intersection while someone decided to pause and keep going into the intersection, part of her […]
"Is"
I was about to google a question that began with the word “is” and these ten questions appeared down in the scroll to try and predict what my “is” question would be: ISbronchitis contagious?pneumonia contagious?Obama the antichrist?Michelle Obama pregnant?your Jason Mraz lyrics?limewire illegal?Lil Wayne dead?the world going to end in 2012?santa real?pluto a planet? Let’s […]
Quick Point for the Day
Anytime a White identified woman asks how to be an ally to a womyn of color, or how to be a “real feminist” that includes full self-actualization, I am always in amazement that the first things said are about how “hard” things are, how “oppressive” the world is, how racism has depleted the hope, stamina, […]