Healing wounds
You've probably had this maudlin e-mail forwarded to you sometime in the past decade. "To be a mother is like having a wound that never heals," it goes. Maudlin, yes, but there's some truth, there. I...
View ArticleWhere my work for the Democratic Party has landed me: a rant
I began posting here a little bit before the 2004 election, then, inspired and angered by Bush's re-election, I leapt with both feet into local party politics.In 2005, I teamed up with a health care...
View ArticleKosAbility:ADHD in a woman--it ain't pretty
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder affects up to 10% of people. Even a mild case can take its toll on function in daily life, and, among women, who are affected as often as men, it takes a...
View ArticleWisconsin protest, Tuesday, Capitol
Governor Scott Walker is an autocrat who is paying back his contributors handsomely, scuttling high-speed rail jobs, wind power feasibility with NIMBY regulations, and now vows to roll back decades of...
View ArticleWhat Republicans used to stand for
Note: My great-grandfather, who was instrumental in founding Luther Hospital, made this speech (excerpted below) on Sept. 9, 1915 in Eau Claire, about health care issues of the day. He was a ”habitual...
View ArticleAdventures in solar cooking: detritus from the drafts folder
Note: found this in my drafts folder, from 2009 Ever since going to the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair last year and seeing rows of solar ovens baking fragrant loaves of bread, I have wanted to own one...
View ArticleADHD: getting in touch with my inner executive
I recently wrote a KosAbility diary about my experience with ADHD, explaining my background as a woman afflicted with ADHD, and sketching a plan to perhaps try stimulant medication, which basically...
View ArticleUterine anomalies: causes, types, and why they matter
Congenital malformations of the uterus are not rare; they affect as much as 7% of women. When I was studying to be a nurse, I wanted to know more about the causes, effects, and nursing...
View ArticleCo-sleeping and risk of SIDS
A "dirty little secret" among new parents is that more of them than one might think choose to "co-sleep," which is loosely defined as sleeping with one's infant very near by—even in the same bed.As a...
View ArticleWhen is toast not toast? When it's spread with maverickitude
So, the Wisconsin GOP state senators, minus Schultz, pulled it off. They've removed public sector collective bargaining from the first state to ever adopt it. People are asking, "Has Walker gone off...
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Breasts: a brief history
Breasts. It's impossible to be neutral about them. Are they decorative? Functional? Recreational? Obscene? Totems of momism? Natural? Too big? Too small? Too saggy? Too artificial? They might be one of...
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Is that outrage, or Graves' Disease?
You're flushed, sweaty, shaky, and jump at the sound of a falling chad. Eyes red and bulging, you yell at Glen Beck on the flat screen. And those nihilistic Republican governors raise your blood...
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A golden fork lying in the sun
I was well into my thirties before I figured out that most people did not see a color associated with every letter and number, did not see shapes associated with sounds, and didn't view a year as a big...
View ArticleVideo: The Struggle in Wisconsin
A well done video that explains clearly why you, as a person in the United States who happens to drink water, should be concerned about the Wisconsin rebellion.Credit: TheBadgerMom
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Living the life of Duffy
Despite GOP efforts to scrub Congressman Sean Duffy's gaffe about struggling on his taxpayer-funded salary of $174,000, that particular turd will not hold a polish.The freshman congressman from...
View ArticleGlenn Beck leaving FOX; cites white lung disease from chalk dust
Okay, so it's not the chalk. But Beck has been more whiny, tearful and vague these days than a whole stack of Air Supply albums. Here's the link:Beck has drawn unprecedented ratings and attention to...
View ArticleOh say can you see by the Bomb's early light?
Updated for Fathers' Day, 2012. Thanks, Dad. Glad you're still hale, 57 years after they did this to you.Imagine starting your day out in the desert in a personnel carrier, getting atom-bombed in the...
View ArticleDave Obey's REAL successor: Pat Kreitlow considers challenging Sean Duffy
I'm so excited this morning I forgot to finish my coffee! Apparently former State Senator Pat Kreitlow is sending up some of those trial balloons for a 2012 attempt to unseat MTV wunderkind Sean Duffy....
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Badger State Progressive digest, No. 1
Man, the potentates in Wisconsin pull shit faster than pickpockets. How to keep a bead on the hydra that is Wisconsin? Here's a list of some of the Wisconsin-related diaries so far this week.Badger...
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The endless knot: eating disorders, part I
I told my mom I was going on a diet when I was ten. Not that I was fat, but I wasn't slender, quite. "You could be so skinny," my mom told me.I once forgot to eat for almost two weeks, subsisting only...
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