A few quick hits:
- A few weeks ago a buddy of mine asked me if I would contribute to a fledgling ‘mom blog’ she and a friend were creating. I said sure – how hard is it to do one blog entry a week, after all? (Hahaha.) Anyway, I’m now responsible for Technology Thursday over at Mom Spa. I have a few posts up over there. My latest one is about federalizing cybersecurity. Unlike here, I’ll probably be more descriptive and less ranty over there, since they’re billing it as a place to relax. Well, I’ll try anyway. Heh.
- I’ve been playing around with Zemanta lately – it’s a Firefox plugin that offers suggestions of additional content to use to annotate blog posts with. It’s not a huuge hit with me, but I’m finding it moderately useful now and then.
- I’m really bummed at the thought of keeping TheLittleGuy rear-facing in his car for longer than a year, but new recommendations suggest that may be safest. He’ll hit the weight limit (30 pounds) on his seat (for rear-facing) before he’s 2, though, I suspect. He’s currently about 26 pounds and we think is hitting another growth spurt. Aiyiyi.
- Howard Dean’s latest mission, after being dissed by the Obama administration for reasons that remain opaque and probably have something to do with Rahm Emmanuel, is to make sure that health care reform happens and happens effectively. Stand with Dr. Dean – he may be occasionally impolitic but he’s still one of the very few national politicians whose focus on policy that affects people’s lives over his own personal career trajectory persists in spite of the D.C. and media onslaughts, IMHO.
- This post over at Shakesville is very thought-provoking. The birth mother of an adopted child explains why the forced-birthers exhortations to women to choose adoption over abortion, even setting aside the dangers of pregnancy and lifelong affects on a women’s health from even a healthy pregnancy and birth, are, as usual, thoughtless and cruel. And that’s putting it mildly.
Believe me when I say that of the two choices, it was adoption that nearly destroyed me – and it never ends. The only comparison I have is the death of a loved one. The pain retreats, maybe fades, but it comes right back if I poke at it. Writing this has taken me nearly two weeks. Normally, I can write this amount in about thirty minutes, with bathroom breaks. I started to type, and stopped only to reread, then go wail into my pillow. There is no such thing as “over” with this.
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Adoption fucked up my head far worse than abortion. I’ve googled over the years about the psychological aftereffects of giving up a baby, and what little I found is astonishing. Depression and suicide rates ridiculously high, comparable to PTSD – and beyond a shadow of a doubt, there is no way you can cook any post-abortion trauma study to come anywhere near post-adoption trauma levels. Strange how peer-reviewed studies on this are damn near non-existent; strange how nobody mentions any of this when it’s not just your mind on the line, but also that of your kid or kids (more on that later). Strange how this is never on the radar when these stupid obstructionist anti-abortion rules are proposed by retrofuckwits. - I am aware of the latest, greatest mommy war to hit the Internet – the one about how breastfeeding is just Not. All. That. And my, oh my, yes I have things to say about it all, me with my 26-pound breastfed infant and my freezer full of gallons of frozen breastmilk. But that merits a full post that I hope to get someday real soon now.
What’s new with all y’all? Who’s still here, anyway?
