I’m not sure who needs to see this today, but maybe it’s you? THIS IS AN ACTUAL BABY SHOWER GAME. Feel free to play it all day, alone, or with family, with friends. I could …
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What the World Needs Now
Is love sweet love and also MORE BEAUTIFUL BLACK INDIE FILMS like this one, Miss Juneteenth, which I watched last night (ON AMAZON PRIME PLZ DO THE SAME.) It’s takes place in what the writer …
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Prepped
We are proud graduates of Loom’s Prepped: The Series birthing class, and while I learned many things that will stay with me forever, and have seen things I cannot unsee — the thing that will …
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‘Politics’
I spent a great deal of my 20’s saying to myself ‘I’m not a political person’ and ‘I care about people, not politics,’ but I was not to be trusted as I wore 5 dollar …
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The Best of Days
HOW WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY, BEKAH? THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW. If you would just CALM DOWN, I WILL TELL YOU. I had the best day that I’ve had in years. A beach walk, a backyard …
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Gray or Grey or Grei
We have proceeded to the ‘pick out color for walls’ portion of third trimester. Soon I will be falling off of a small ladder in a pair of overalls that don’t fit into a tray …
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Guilt | Action
I’ve been thinking a lot about how much time and emotional energy white people should be giving to guilt right now, and how much to action. Is the guilt a part of the action? Is …
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The Crib
Last week we hit the THIRD TRIMESTER which means that in a VERY SHORT AND YET WHAT STILL FEELS LIKE A LARGE AMOUNT OF TIME, the baby will live OUTSIDE my body, and we will …
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BINGO!
I have to do something other than scroll, grow human, grow fat. And LORD how I love a list of tasks to check off. Here’s an effective tool for ways to educate and act. Last …
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A Face of a Man
We had our first Zoom birthing class, and I had to capture this Face of a Man watching a fake baby get shoved through a fake pelvis after watching a plastic cervix dilate and ‘efface’ …