This was a requested blog topic:  America's (tainted) view of the Mother's Body.  I have a couple of websites I want you to go check out before you read the rest of this. A complete visual guide of mothers and their body-battles BabyCenter polls 7,000 who "tell it like it is"...the truth about the postpartum body Check out this comment from a body image expert about what women think about themselves postpartum: Joan Chrisler, a body image expert who teaches at Connecticut College, isn't surprised. "Lots of studies have shown that women think men want them to be thinner than men really want them to be," she says. "Researchers will show women sketches of female figures and ask, which do you think men believe is the ideal? Men always pick significantly bigger sizes than women think they want." So if your mate says you look great, believe it. Check out this comment from the BabyCenter article about what OTHER people think about women p...

I am musing today about my evolvement. At 10, I thought I could befriend everyone. I knew nothing about petty nonsense except that certain girls in my fifth-grade class would sometimes tease me. My mom thickened my skin by telling me they were jealous. In fact, anything that happened in which I was teased was always resolved by "they're just jealous." Thanks Mom. No, seriously. At 11, I went to music camp (Blue Lake) and made friends with a girl named Tiffany Yang. She was a better pianist than me, quiet, and kind of weird. We became friends. I wonder if I can find her on Facebook now? At 12, shaving legs was a GIGANTIC deal. I wasn't allowed to. I felt like the Yeti. At 13, I returned to music camp. I fell in love for the second-ish time. The first time I had no clue what was going on. This time, I never got to say good-bye to my new flame. I was depressed over that for a little while. At 14, I went to CMU's music camp and met an awesome girl who was be...