angelawd

Here at my parents’ house in the country, I’m surrounded my photos of me, my sisters, my steps, and our children. I grew up in a family of females, unless you count my dad who wasn’t really around, even when he was around. I have raised two daughters in an all-female home, until Joe [...]

I have been having a fascinating discussion with the very intellligent and open-minded Heather from Comparative Childhood, and our conversation recently turned to the question of how to explain to our daughters the sexism that’s apparent in the bible - and much Christian dogma.
I don’t have all the answers but I have come to [...]

Warning: this is a serious one. 
Last I read a blog post and subsequent comments that have clung to my mind ever since then. The post is at the hip, wise and funny This Fish and describes the author’s first sexual experiences and the value of sex without love.
My heart aches with all the stories I read from her commenters [...]

Over the past month I’ve been doing some work for a plastic surgeon, as I described in this post from my pearlwriting blog. Most of this work involved me exploring websites and blogs devoted to plastic surgery, and wow, I’ve learned some crazy things.
One weird lesson is that there are a peculiar number of sites devoted [...]