You don’t have to have ovaries to be a mom blogger. It’s a choice.
When I started blogging back in 2005 I was a theological blogger – once or twice a political blogger. I ranted in lists and bullet points and stats and stock images.
That lasted about two weeks, if memory serves me right. And then,… 
Archive for October 2011
Mom Blogger By Choice
Ipen Do It
“Please monkey bars,” he’s said every day for almost four months.
He climbs the ladder in his Spiderman boots, stands on the platform – “Ipent do it.”
“You can do it, Sambhaji. You’re very strong. You’re Spiderman!”
He grabs the first yellow ring and considers swinging out alone. “Please help, Daddy.”
And I do. Every day I walk… 
Yucky
There’s a great temptation to romanticize poverty, to cast the poor as saints, especially the little ones.
Look at them, we say, playing so nicely, saying “please” and “thank you”, holding our hands, sitting in our lap, sweet smiling things – always smiling. So good, so cute…not like those kids back home.
But if you were… 



