My first post of 2006. I must have blinked while 2005 went by. Now my son is talking like he’s always known how, sleeping in a real bed, and otherwise acting like a boy rather than a baby. While January seems like a time for making predictions about the year, I don’t want to even […]
(Or should that be “Lesbianism, Identity, and Being a Mother”?) There’s a great dialogue about identity going on right now on two other lesbian moms’ blogs. Both Renee and Kwynne offer different perspectives on how being a mother can raise questions about and change one’s sense of self. How true. Losing my own identity–as a
The Huggies Baby Network recently featured an article by Lisa Beamer titled “The Greatest Things About Girls.” It horrified me, frankly, to see yet another example of how people even now smother their children in traditional gender roles. Here are some select quotes: I loved having my boys, but after several years of trucks, dinosaurs
