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Archive for the ‘environment’ Category

June 17th, 2008

b5media Theme Day - School’s Out! What are You Doing to Continue Your Sex/Fertility Education?

All of the commenters on this post agreed that yes, definitely, more information on fertility issues and infertility should be shared as part of one’s education. Perhaps in sex ed; perhaps in psychology. I even put in a vote for it as a topic to be covered in “Christian Marriage” or “Social Justice” for those […]

By Gabrielle -- 5 comments

June 16th, 2008

A Yoga Epiphany

It happened.
Tonight around 7 p.m.
I went to a yoga class that absolutely kicked *ss (and kicked my *ass to boot). It was fabulous. It was wonderful. It was hard!!! Holy crap is your body supposed to do that? Frankly, I was amazed at what my own body was doing. I had no idea.
Unlike the morning […]

By Gabrielle -- 1 comment

June 15th, 2008

Comebacks for Those Phrases You Hate to Hear

You remember the Sticks and Stones series, right? That’s when me and my pal Angelique from Breaking the Mirror put together some of the comments we hate to hear and asked you to comment on them, which many of you did. Thanks!
For those of you who were left speechless, or at least at a loss […]

By Gabrielle -- 1 comment

June 6th, 2008

Freebie Friday - And the First Fertility Blend Winner is….

Good lordessa, is it Friday already?
You know what that means. It’s time to announce a winner. I mean, you’re all winners in my book, but this particular Friday one of you is getting a packet of goodness mailed to you. Specifically, a 3-month supply of Fertility Blend dietary supplements.
Drum roll please…
MARY, you are our lucky […]

By Gabrielle -- 2 comments

June 6th, 2008

Summer Reading - Some Fertile Words

I confess. I have a stack of summer reading to do and I have been avoiding all of the titles that are fertility-related. Because I just haven’t been ready to focus on my own fertility until we got some things out of the way first.
But now I am ready to crack them open again. Start […]

By Gabrielle -- 4 comments

May 4th, 2008

A New Mom in the Neighborhood

I am sitting on my apartment’s back porch (essentially a perch a little larger than a fire escape) typing this as quietly as I can. I think I may be witnessing the miracle of life just a few feet away from me.
Last month a mourning dove took residence in our neighbor’s neglected flower box and […]

By Gabrielle -- 1 comment

April 22nd, 2008

An Earth Day Announcement - Daily Tomorrow is Back!

Happy Earth Day!
This feels like an appropriate moment to share some news with you. (Don’t get too excited, it’s not of the baby-making variety.)
This week I took over blogging duties at one of my favorite blogs in the b5 Health and Wellness channel, one dedicated to Connecting science, health and the environment. You may have […]

By Gabrielle -- 0 comments

April 18th, 2008

Fertility Testing Kits or a Fancy Glass of Wine? Hmmm….

There is no dearth of options when it comes to home fertility tests. Tests for you, for your partner. Little kits to help you determine the time and date when your odds of making babies are the most fertile. How strong are his sperm? How viscous your pathway? How many eggs do you have left? […]

By Gabrielle -- 2 comments

April 16th, 2008

Appreciating the Present

Last week as M and I were enjoying an evening at a friends’ house (something we don’t do often enough), I caught a glimpse of a set of 10 little statements, mantras almost, clipped from a new agey magazine and hanging in her kitchen. My first impulse was to tease, but then I started reading […]

By Gabrielle -- 2 comments

April 8th, 2008

Smokin’, Drinkin’, Sniffin’ Glue

A recent study done by Jennifer Bailey and Karl Hill from the University of Washington’s Social Development Research Group found that,
Despite public health campaigns, a surprising number of women continue to use substances such as tobacco, marijuana and alcohol during pregnancy and their usage rebounds to pre-pregnancy levels within two years of having a […]

By Gabrielle -- 4 comments