Bread and Roses

"Did you know that sometimes people are mean to other people just because those people have brown skin?" "I have light s...

There's a new kid in LB's class.  Sometimes Estelle seems happy, sometimes she seems sad.  Last week her mom carried her into sch...

Finally, I got a picture of my little girl in the big snow!  Blurry and shadowed, but I just wanted a New England picture for posterity. ...

All these books, including the ones you can't see in the layer behind the visible books, plus a few more shelves like these.  And the...

After the success of project Christmas paper chain, and upon realizing the excessive amount of art supplies building in our closet, and in p...

The Motherlode column published this column about families using online giving sites like GoFundMe to fund things like rent and medical bill...

November is Prematurity Awareness month, for what it's worth.  In my writing class, I did an exercise describing an object with sentimen...

LB has declared herself for Team Frozen and she also has decided that she only wears sundresses despite it being October in New Englan...

Some pw protected goodness over at the other blog: http://lbbreadandroses.wordpress.com/2014/10/04/how-were-living-now/

This is the official jam of my separation from B.  I love this song and you should definitely check it out, even if your man or lady isn...

What I don't want to be doing right now: ghostwriting a letter of recommendation from a famous public intellectual What I've liste...

It's almost summer, and the issue of what toddler/preschooler girls should wear in the summer has been popping up all over my social med...

This is the only back-in-the-day photo I can find (weirdly cropped to protect the innocent).  The year was likely 1997, I remember buying ...

"This week we are celebrating Father's Day!! We will be discussing all types of fathers (ex: fathers, stepfathers, uncles, grand...

The recent news coverage of unaccompanied minors, mainly from Central America, traveling across the US border alone and then being detained ...

For the past little while, academics have been getting snarky about trigger warnings.  Exhibit A is Laurie Essig's piece in The Chronic...

Rhode Island has an inferiority complex, apparently we came in last in a poll of state residents who rate their state THE BEST place to live...

We've got problems. This morning brings news that yet another friend (a parent and a teacher) is fleeing city schools, in this case th...

It's always hard to know what modifier to use for this motley crew.  Fundamentalism makes me think Biblical inerrancy, 20th century, and...

This book is a most excellent one for your home library and mine.  Poet Gwendolyn Brooks published the book of children's poetr...