| Category: Lifestyle |
HMOM
Attention all expectant mothers: be your own healthcare advocate!
By Pam Mitchell Mangas
Health has never been a big concern in my life. As a child, my mother chose to avoid the doctor because I literally fought the nurses tooth and nail. That was back when antibiotics were given by needle, not mouth. So, I sweated out the fevers, took a...read more |
| Category: Lifestyle |
HMOM
Attention all expectant mothers: be your own healthcare advocate!
By Pam Mitchell Mangas
Health has never been a big concern in my life. As a child, my mother chose to avoid the doctor because I literally fought the nurses tooth and nail. That was back when antibiotics were given by needle, not mouth. So, I sweated out the fevers, took a...read more |
| Category: Lifestyle |
Pole Dancing Mama
My new exercise routine.
By Esme Mills
Yes, it’s true; I am a pole dancing mama. But let’s get one thing straight before I continue -- I do it for pleasure, not for profit. I don’t sneak out after I put my boys to bed and work in a dark bar to pay the bills. I have new respect...read more |
| Category: Lifestyle |
Parenting After Breast Cancer
Raising kids after the "Big C".
By Julia Nelson
I was a single parent working 48 hours a week to support my two daughters. I had a lot of support from my family in raising my girls, so when I found a lump in my breast one gloomy day in February of 1999, I figured if I ignored it, it would go away....read more |
| Category: Politics/Society |
Dancing Between the Party Lines
Parenting makes it not so black and white.
By Jennifer Cummins
When it comes to politics, it seems that I have to watch where I step when it comes to forming a concrete opinion as to whether I am for one major party or the other. You see, I was raised a “Republican” because my father was in “big...read more |
| Category: Lifestyle |
Complainer or Advocate?
What does it take to make a change for the better?
By Joy Jarman-Walsh
This is not my first time on bed rest, I was here last year for 3 weeks at the same hospital with PROM, but this time my condition is much more stable. There is a lot of hope and even enthusiasm from my doctors here.
I guess it may be because I am further...read more |
| Category: Lifestyle |
It's Not My Fault!
Finally, we have a scapegoat!
By Kerrie Flanagan
Just when I think our world cannot get any crazier I pick up the newspaper and see the headline, "Activists blame obesity on sugary SpongeBob." Spongebob causes childhood obesity? Apparently The Center for Science in the Public Interest and...read more |
| Category: Lifestyle |
Gene Pool Dating?
Women, let this be a guide; don’t worry about being rejected by a boyfriend because he doesn’t love you.
By Jennifer Cummins
To anyone out there that may have ever felt rejected by someone they have loved, I am here to tell you; it may not have been you. Well, it may have been you, but, not for the reasons you may think. Women, let this be a guide; don’t worry about being...read more |
| Category: Lifestyle |
Sick Days
I don't feel so good...
By Peggy Duffy
My oldest succumbed first. She came downstairs in the gray light of a winter morning, her face blazing with an unhealthy flush.
“My head hurts,” she said.
A quick hand to her forehead confirmed what her glassy eyes had already revealed....read more |
| Category: Lifestyle |
A Gourmet Wannabe Drops Out
I'm throwing in the kitchen towel.
By Sherry G. Antonetti
All those helpful cooking recipes in parenting magazines designed to get kids to eat healthy gourmet meals? They lie. Those glossy photos depicting cute little moppets happily chowing down on exotic feasts like sushi, asparagus, and roasted bell peppers...read more |
| Category: Lifestyle |
A Gourmet Wannabe Drops Out
I'm throwing in the kitchen towel.
By Sherry G. Antonetti
All those helpful cooking recipes in parenting magazines designed to get kids to eat healthy gourmet meals? They lie. Those glossy photos depicting cute little moppets happily chowing down on exotic feasts like sushi, asparagus, and roasted bell peppers...read more |
| Category: Lifestyle |
Want Fries With That Cow?
My son contemplates the origin of meat.
By Prescott Carlson
A while back my son and I visited the aquarium. After taking the train downtown, walking six blocks, peering through blue-green glass at the scores of aquatic life and completely exhausting the use of "whoa" and "that’s cool!",...read more |
| Category: Lifestyle |
Doctor, Heal Thyself
Why is an m.d. spewing advice about child psychology?
By Prescott Carlson
A medical advice column was recently brought to my attention, written by Dr. Peter Gott. I must admit, I had never heard of Dr. Gott before, despite his being widely syndicated. Strangely enough, whenever I have a concern about my health, I tend to visit...read more |
| Category: Parenting |
Third Millennium Mom
Combining
50s home-goodness with today’s work ethic – is this a realistic expectation for
women?
By Rita Fiorentino
We've sworn off hydrogenated oils (or trans-fats they're also called). Heard of them? They're in everything. So far, I've found three types of cookies that don't have them (Pepperidge Farms Pirouettes, Chessmen and the Newman's Own brand Oreo-type cookies)...read more |
| Category: Columnists |
Growing Pains
Waiting room stories: stranger than family.
By Elizabeth Thompson
I sat in the stuffy room, drank another cup of bad coffee and threw a fleeting look towards the two women sitting at the table across from me as they continued to leaf through about a thousand greeting cards.
Strange: “Um, where do you...read more |
