But aside from that, she's still completely normal
Have you seen the new show Windfall? I haven’t seen it yet, but the concept got me thinking. If I won the lottery my biggest dream of being debt free would become a reality. After that is anyone’s guess. A home of my own! A car that’s not borrowed! My kids would have a college education without going into debt! It’s nice to dream.
This is a hard question.
I guess my first favorite place – that’s not necessarilly one place is in water. I love to swim. So I love to be immersed be it in a lake, ocean, or pool.
But an actual place that exists? That would be here at home. Iknow where everything is. I know where everything is supposed to be. I can do whatever I want without being judged. This is where I’m most comfortable in my skin.
NEW YORK (July 27) – “I was SHOCKED to see a giant breast on the cover of your magazine,” one person wrote. “I immediately turned the magazine face down,” wrote another. “Gross,” said a third.
Full article here
This article makes me want to scream. Really? A breast? We’re not talking Janet Jackson – we’re not even seeing nipple! It’s a baby nursing. In fact, if you didn’t know what it was, you’d think it was the side view of a round elbow or something. What I’m trying to say is, it’s not indecent in the least!
Not only that, it’s on the cover of a free magazine geared toward mothers of babies. Gee. I wonder how many of them are nursing?
With the government doing this big push about how great nursing is (comparing formula a bucking bronco no less – but I can’t find the link) – and then mother’s are actually sending in mail to the editor complaining about this photo?
One mother who didn’t like the cover explains she was concerned about her 13-year-old son seeing it.
“I shredded it,” said Gayle Ash, of Belton, Texas, in a telephone interview. “A breast is a breast – it’s a sexual thing. He didn’t need to see that.”
Oh please. I don’t think seeing a baby nursing is going to spawn a great pubescent rush of hormones. I mean dude. A breast first and foremost is the means for which our human spawn to receive nurishment. It’s our society and culture that has sexualized the breast. To be shamed, or called indecent, or anything else when showing the breast in it’s original intent is asinine and ignorant. I shouldn’t have to grapple with blankets etc to try and breastfeed my child in public because I might offend someone *gasp*.
And neither should this magazine – which caters to mothers of babies trying to find the best way to nurture them – censor themselves from showing a breast as nature intended it.
Play the I AM game! Google your name followed by “is”, and post the first several results to your blog.
Michele is a professional speaker
Michele is the leading fiscal and social conservative in the Minnesota State Senate
Michele is an essential part of my team and I recommend her to my clients regularly
Michele is determined to offer couples a powerful antidote to this
Michele is also a publisher, illustrator, photographer, travel adviser and webmaster
I tried doing it by my handle – Sparksfley – but it was too odd to really bring anything up.
During Blogathon they’re going to have different games and such – keeps it interesting for those of us writing.
The first?
Are you listening to music? Post what’s playing right now (me: Snow Patrol, Chocolate). If you aren’t listening to music, just say you aren’t, with a few words about why (can’t wake up the family? hate the stuff?).
At the moment I’m not. It’s 7:00 (will be 7:30 when this thing gets posted, but it takes me a while to write). I finally made Poe get up due to the ANTS! problem. Dammit he’s the man, there’s an unspoken agreement that he deals with the bugs. Anyway – it seems to bug him when I play music through the speakers. Like it interferes with his listening to his game on the tv. So – later on I’ll probably listen to my iPod because that let’s me focus on what I’m doing.
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