A slave mother’s love in 56 words

You can read more about this beautiful thing here.

All I am, or ever hope to be…

I don’t think everyone needs to have children, but I did. One is a belly baby. The other came with the house. And I have learned so much from the both of them. I don’t remember where this was taken. I do remember we’d spent the day riding the surf on this big raft, and …

The dreadful illness of povertenza

A rich white boy from Texas escapes serious punishment after killing four people and injuring another while drunk by pleading “affluenza.” Then surely  a poor black boy can plead povertenza as an excuse for appalling behavior. Love that last link, by Jessica Ann Mitchell. Here’s more on rich white boy Ethan Couch and his enabling mother because, as Mitchell writes: Basically, …

Which country has eliminated maternal-infant HIV transmission?

Cuba. You can read more here at Physicians For a National Health Program. The country’s success has been validated by WHO. And thanks, Leftover, for the link.

The lies we tell

The twins came to Camp Granny’s this weekend, and Saturday morning, out in the yard I saw a mother deer and the smallest fawn I’ve ever seen, covered in spots and no bigger than a house cat. The deer turned because I gasped, so I whispered up the stairs for the children to come down …