When my sister said she was going to adopt a vegan diet, I thought that she was a little bit crazy. She asked me to read two books, one of which was Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating by Mark Bittman. Bittman was struggling with his weight as well as various health maladies at [...]
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Food Matters
Posted in alternatives, books, food, health on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
Posted in alternatives, anxiety, books, culture, introspection, motherhood on July 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This time the bargain bin really panned out. I picked this up on a whim, after the juxtaposition of motherhood and anxiety caught my eye.
I spend more than my fair share of time on the internet, and one of the things that I like to read about is motherhood. I read blogs and message boards like [...]
Natural Birth Control
Posted in alternatives, birth control, crunchy, health, sex, women's health on March 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Birth control doesn’t have to be hormonal (such as the pill) and it doesn’t have to be a barrier method (such as a condom). You don’t have to abstain or use withdrawal or any other pseudo-form of birth control. A woman’s egg can live for only 24 hours (Caveat! Sperm can live up to 5 days). [...]
Zoloft is making me fat
Posted in alternatives, anti-depressants, anxiety, crunchy, health on February 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I hate to admit it, but there it is: Zoloft is making me fat. Additionally, it’s making me tired. I can easily sleep ten hours at night and take a two-hour nap during the day… and then do the same thing the next day, and the next day. Oh yes, and there is one other unpleasant [...]
Let’s talk about sex, baby
Posted in alternatives, books, childbirth, crunchy, midwifery on February 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“It’s as though they think they invented birth.” My midwife shook her head sadly as she spoke about the views of many obstetricians. I had just met her, but we had already bonded over a shared philosophy of natural childbirth. A midwife for over thirty years, she said that she had seen the pendulum swing both ways when [...]
Commune Livin’
Posted in alternatives, books, childbirth, midwifery on February 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Perhaps as a testament to my budding crunchy granola side, the topic of communes has occasionally arisen in the course of conversation with friends. While I am quick to extol the virtues of this type of idealistic, collectivistic society, the truth is that I would not make a good commune dweller. My only interest in [...]
