Political work is like brushing teeth

You can brush your teeth thoroughly on Sunday, flossing and using a periodontal stimulater and mouthwash. Your teeth will be sparkling clean after that work. To have healthy teeth, you will have to do that every day. Doing it completely and wonderfully on Sunday doesn’t give you an exemption from doing the work on Monday,.. read more →

Forgiveness

For most of my life, forgiveness was an abstract and desired goal, the final square on a spiritual game board that had no rules. I had a vision of forgiveness being an instant, magical event, with a spotlight coming down from heaven to shine on me, and angel voices singing, with a vast improvement in.. read more →

21st century mothering.

I have been working with babies, birth, breastfeeding, mothers and families since 1975. That’s a lifetime. I get to have opinions, based on observation and on seeing patterns, one of the joys of living to be older.  The opinions are mine, and are shared here as a thought-provoking exercise. I am limited by my own.. read more →

Truth in Advertising

TRUTH IN ADVERTISING   HUMAN MILK   INGREDIENTS: PERFECT CARBOHYDRATES,  PERFECT GENTLE PROTEINS, PERFECT PROBIOTICS, PERFECT ESSENTIAL FATS,  PERFECT FATTY ACIDS (INCLUDING SAFE ARA AND DHA),  PERFECT MINERALS,  VITAMINS, IMMUNITIES,  LIVING CELLS. MicroRNA. 100,000 ingredients. Manufactured by Mothers in an environmentally safe process that is a renewable resource, non-polluting and clean. FORMULA   INGREDIENTS: CORN.. read more →

6 months after delivery, and still wanting to breastfeed.

RP got pregnant after the first act of aiming (“Surprise!”) and felt happy and well all along. In the 5th month of pregnancy, her baby was found to have several organ defects. The world changed.   At 28 weeks, she started weekly ultrasounds. She always felt that her baby was fine, despite continual worry and.. read more →

The lonely old lady.

In my work as a visiting nurse in both Baltimore, Maryland and Ulster County, New York, Maryland, I often cared for lonely old ladies. They were almost always white and 70 or beyond. They often had health problems, ranging from degrees of deafness to being wheel-chair bound. They didn’t often have visitors. One benefit of my.. read more →