Monthly Archives: February 2009

Milk Bank Review

Nature intended breastmilk to a be a straight-from-the-source food for babies. Modern life, on the other hand, necessitates that sometimes our milk takes a detour on the way to baby. The Milkbank system is not the first product promising to make banking breastmilk easier, but it does go one better than the products on [...]

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Coffin’s pictures

If my husband died in combat, would I want the media to photograph his coffin as his body came home to me?
I can’t help getting choked up thinking about this grim scenario. I don’t even want to consider the possibility, let alone worry about whether I would want the press to be part of this [...]

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Buns

6 year old daughter: “There are a lot of old people out there.” Pause. “Mommy my new coach is 35 years old! That’s old, right?”
Me: “That’s not so old baby. It’s pretty young.”
6 year old daughter: “Is that how old you are? Or are you older?”
Me: “I’m around that age. But I look good and [...]

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