The stars have become perfectly aligned this weekend for some down time from the blogosphere.  But I wanted to leave you with some good reading material, so here are some links to some interesting Mothers of Intention: My friend Christina from A...

Yes, we need a better plan for Afghanistan. But when I learned that more troops were headed there I thought, ‘Barack Obama may have just lost 2012.‘ I listened dutifully to the President’s speech last night, which you can see here. And there is some...

Well, when I tossed my hat in the ring, I didn’t think I’d really stand a chance go on a wonky, progressive’s political cruise!  It’s fun to enter contests, especially if they’re related to the substance of what you’re doing, but I usually don’t hold...

I noticed over the weekend that all of a sudden I was getting quite a few new comments on a post I wrote back in the early summer, called If Only the New Disney Princess Could be More Like Mulan, about my thoughts on Mulan as a Disney princess and the...