stretch marks June 30, 2006
Wow, even Pamela Anderson HAS STRETCH MARKS on her bum.
I’m lucky; I don’t seem to get them so much.
happy news!
My cousin Julie, WARD’S MAMA is expecting a baby in January.
I dreamed it’s a baby girl.
I am so happy for her!
in defense of the pregnant prom queen June 28, 2006
In reference to the discussion below about teen sexuality, here’s something I wrote about TEEN PREGNANCY for Metro Pulse.
And here’s a post I wrote on my old blog a few years ago about why “teen sex” isn’t necessarily SUCH A TERRIBLE THING
abstinence programs scare me
And HERE’S WHY.
A “father-daughter PURITY ball?” Ick. Ick. Ick.
I want my adolescent kids (one is, two are not yet) to know what they need to know about sex and their own values and staying safe. I want them to respoect their own bodies, their own emotional needs, and be kind to others. I want them to be safe, healthy and happy. I do not want sex to be a big, scary, secret something to them.
britney’s nekkid in bazaar
britney
Originally uploaded by kgranju.
I think our girl Britney looks absolutely gorgeous in ALL THESE PHOTOS
gardening at night
Last night the children and Jon and I walked down to the neighbor’s house to see the nightly show on our street: the dramatic opening of the flowers on a “nine o’clock bloomer” bush. These bushes are also called Moonflowers, Evening Primrose and Nicodemus plants. At around 9pm every night in the summer, the closed-up yellow flowers suddenly and quickly pop open. It’s something to see. YOu feel like you are watching time lapse photography on fast forward.
We neded up coming home with a baby moonflower bush, given to use by the nice woman who has the bush we were admiring. So it was after dark, but we went ahead and planted it in the frint flower garden. I hope it takes.
Elliot is very happy because the tomatoes he planted from seeds brought by the Easter Bunny are growing like crazy. He also planted some “Forget Me Nots” at the same time, and they’ve bloomed nicely, but he can’t remember the name of the flowers. He keeps referring to them as his “Wish Me Lucks,” which I find pretty adorable. I am going to start calling them that, too.
the worst bonnaroo coverage award goes to….. June 27, 2006
The primary reporter for my hometown newspaper, in middle Tennessee, is frequently, unintentionally hilarious.
Read HIS OP-ED ON BONNAROO for perhaps his best work EVAH.
I can’t decide if the best part is:
A.) Where he refers to the band “The Magic Numbers” as “Magic Fingers”
B.) He suggests he was offered sexual favors in exchange for his press credentials
C.) He refers to “vulgar” movements known as “dance moves”
"that’s so ghetto"
Lately, I’ve noticed teenagers using the word “ghetto” as an adjective all the time, as in, “That’s so ghetto.”
I can’t quite get a read on what they mean by “ghetto” these days, but apparently, to Hilary Duff, “ghetto” means AN AFFLUENT MARYLAND SUBURB.
hey catherine k.! June 26, 2006
I read your comment about e-mailing me with a blogging question and how I never responded and I am so, so sorry. I must have somehow lost your e-mail in the shuffle of life and I feel bad about it. Public apology. I get a lot of e-mail.
I also owe blog reader Karrie an e-mail in response to a very thoughtful one she wrote me last week about breastfeeding and guilt and haven’t gotten it written/sent yet…
Mea culpa, y’all.
men and fake boobs
Last year, on a famously terrible first date, I had a man ask me if my breasts were real. He just…asked me. Straight up.
Are so many women’s breasts fake now that if someone has,ahem, bigger than average breasts, as I happen to, then it’s assumed they are fake?
Anyway, her’s an interesting essay on “WHAT MEN REALLY THINK OF BREAST IMPLANTS”
who are you?
Time for my semi-regular query of blog readers/posters: who are you and how did you find my blog? What brings you back (or not)? What would you like to see more of and less of?
CLICK HERE to tell me ’bout yo’ bad self.
oh dear. i’ve missed many, many e-mails
I have another e-mail address - a yahoo one - that I never, ever, ever use. I checked it tonight and found dozens of interesting, important and in some cases, rather urgent e-mails from people that I never got.
If you have e-mailed me at my yahoo address in recent months and got no response, I am so, so sorry. I am now trying to find and respond to all the e-mails I have missed, but please re-send your e-mail to me at kagranju@gmail.com. This is the e-mail address I actually use and check regularly.
Thanks.
Katie
