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Let Us Never Speak of This Again: A Kind of Gross After Effect of Childbirth Nobody Really Talks About
When you have a kid, everybody warns you about certain physical changes that may occur. Droopy boobs. Stretch marks. Peeing when you cough or sneeze or laugh too hard. (Actually, they should make this part of high school sex ed. Show them photos of actual post-partum bellies and feet and veins, the way they show…
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We Will Make Sure You Don’t Know How Beautiful You Are
Everyone’s seen the new Dove ad, right? In it, women describe themselves to a police sketch artist, who draws them without seeing them. Then, other people who have actually met the women describe her to the artist. The sketches are notably different. In the ones where women have described themselves, they end up looking like…
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The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns: Literary Tastes Pick
I got some exciting news! I happened to glance at my phone and see that my trusty friend Sarah McCoy (author of THE BAKER’S DAUGHTER and all-around awesome lady) Tweeted that THE CARE AND HANDLING OF ROSES WITH THORNS won the American Library Association’s Best Women’s Fiction award for 2013! Every year, the Reference and User’s Association (RUSA)…
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Fifty/Fifty Challenge 2012
I participated in the Fifty/Fifty Challenge for 2012. You’re supposed to watch 50 movies and read 50 books. I used Pinterest to keep track of it. I mostly forgot about it, though, until the end of the year, when I tried to remember all the books and movies I’d seen. Whoops! I looked at my piles…
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A Medical Quibble
I really hate it when I go to the doctor’s office and fill out a million forms, and while I’m leaving and I have to make a follow-up, the admin says, “What’s your name/birthdate/phone number?” Why are those systems not linked? Didn’t I just fill out that crap out? The insurance told us to go…
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Newsy News
Happy New Year! I’ve been safely underground in my writing cave (actually a lot like a cave, not intentionally) and so have been remiss in blogging. But here’s some stuff to report. My dad found a Gil Webber for Christmas, so yay! (I am NOT asking what he paid. Seriously). The Care and Handling of…
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Women on Target
I have to admit, I am a little bit afraid of guns. I want them far away from me. But I also thought it would be theoretically fun to shoot at clay targets and the like. When I saw a flier for a class called Women on Target, which pairs women with mentors for a…
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Butterfly Snack Packs
Because I’m overly ambitious, I made these snacks for our Girl Scout troop meeting the other day. Gotta have fuel for our feminist agenda! Or, to talk about friendship and stuff. I found these on Pinterest from a post on Juggling with Kids (a site I just got lost on ala Pinterest– so many great…
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Bay Area Trip
I realized I never wrote about our northern California trip in September! Cadillac went with me to an event and we also audited a bunch of offices. I don’t mean we– he did– I sat in the car. We managed to sneak in a side trip to San Francisco. Actually, we went there twice– Cadillac…
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House Lust
My name is Margaret Dilloway, and I have a problem. I want to buy a house. Not just any old cookie-cutter house. A grand house, like this one for sale in Minnesota: Yes, it’s in Minnesota. It snows there, I hear. But look at the newel posts! The original doorknobs! THE TURRET!…
MARGARET DILLOWAY 