Barely Knit Together

Posted by Barely Knit Together on May 31, 2009 in The Soap Box

I have an odd assortment of friends and acquaintances, and it is ever more apparent to me as I read the variety of posts from friends on Twitter and Facebook.
I have attachment parenting friends, cloth diapering friends, Christian friends, liberal friends, libertarian friends, far right wing friends and far out friends. Some are republican, some [...]

It's a Small World After All

Posted by Barely Knit Together on Nov 9, 2008 in Motherhood

As a woman becomes a mother, her world takes on different dimensions. Discussions over coffee take on the scale of bedtime routines or breastfeeding problems instead of economics or world affairs. Even those of us who once prided ourselves on being well-informed can slip into something that looks an awful lot like…vacuity.
We don’t stop caring [...]