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Good things

Yazan: Candace | 08 December 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Activism, Culture, Family, Feminism, Food, Happy, Life, Relationships, Third Wave, Women's Studies

I am in such a wonderfully good place right now. There are still enough days between now and due dates that I’m not yet in full freakout, and I am surrounded by the most wonderful and caring people anyone could know. It began yesterday with some sweet things my kids said, then I was surprised […]

What my awesome kid did today

Yazan: Candace | 13 October 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life, Relationships

Between meeting his schoolbus, eating dinner and taking my daughter to aikido, my youngest son (5 years old) came up to me for a hug and noticed I was wearing the bead necklace/hairband he’d made me last week. He was so happy to see it on me – to know that I really and truly […]

Stupid. Custody. Orders.

Yazan: Candace | 16 September 2006 | Comments Off on Stupid. Custody. Orders.
Categories: Bodies, Divorce, Family, Life, Masculinity, Relationships

Their father picked them up this morning for his every-other-weekend and started to pull away from the curb. He paused a few feet up the street and my daughter (12) opened her window and said the youngest (5) forgot to hug me. I could hear him in the back seat saying “Mama – I didn’t […]

Cleaning, Purging, Finding, Remembering

Yazan: Candace | 11 September 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Divorce, Family, Happy, Life, Relationships

I have been trying to make the house more functional. When we first moved here years ago the house was gross – a real fixer-upper but all we could afford: fillled with mouse poo, dog pee in every room, angry holes had been smashed in the walls, graffiti was everywhere and these were just the […]

More on lists and routines

Yazan: Candace | 27 August 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Culture, Family, Happy, Life, Relationships

I’ve written about lists before and now Rob is writing about lists too. After reading Rob’s post (based on a conversation with Jeff) there’s an advantage to making a list that I think he hasn’t realized. I know that when I see another person’s list, I know how I can best help them. I’m a […]

Not a mommyblogger, not a Jane

Yazan: Candace | 01 August 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Blogging, Blogher, Culture, Diversity, Family, Feminism, Life, Technology

I’m on my way home from BlogHer 2006 and realizing that there are a lot of things I am not. Mostly today I know I’m not a mommyblogger. Mommy/parent blogging does have incredible potential to support new parents in what can be overwhelming isolation and a shocking discovery that babies are not all crisp cotton, […]

To the Death: A Historical Snapshot of Feminists Who Took it to the Extreme

Yazan: Candace | 23 July 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Bodies, Culture, Family, Feminism, Feminist Theory, History, Sexism, Women's Studies

Margaret Sanger. Ethyl Byrne. Genora Johnson Dollinger. There are women who have dedicated their lives – even risked their lives – for the cause of the women’s movement. Publishing, speaking publicly, and hunger strikes are some of the ways that feminists have placed the greater good of many before their own needs. In the excerpt […]

Are you a list person?

Yazan: Candace | 20 April 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life

Do you make lists? Do you hate lists? Do you realize there are different kinds of lists? First there are the lists that give you chores to do. Often other people make these lists for you: wash windows, clean eavestroughs, fix the faucet, clean the clutter off the counter, catch up the mending, etc. Lists […]

Learning to enjoy life

Yazan: Candace | 20 April 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life

I’m learning some things. I’m trying to learn to enjoy life more. I’ve been participating at 43 places.com and looking at all the beautiful places there are in the world to visit, all the amazing history to see, all the cool people to meet and watching the people who are really doing all of this. […]

summer at last

Yazan: Candace | 19 April 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life, Photography, School

This summer is much needed. Classes are over finally and my exams are done. I have two final papers due next week that I will have to write sometime but I’m not thinking about that right now. I need a break. I have been a full time student for 8 semesters straight now. I got […]

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