Back to the farmer's market -

To find a couple of new things have been added.

I now have raclette cheese to melt on my challah tonight - thankyouverymuch - and I'm having fresh-cooked sole over rice pilaf with garlic-roasted potatoes and grilled zucchini for lunch.

Now all I need is a decent night's sleep and I should be back in business. Living on a Luna bar and two Krispy Kremes yesterday before getting home for dinner probably wasn't a good idea, neh?

Back to the farmer's market -

To find a couple of new things have been added.

I now have raclette cheese to melt on my challah tonight - thankyouverymuch - and I'm having fresh-cooked sole over rice pilaf with garlic-roasted potatoes and grilled zucchini for lunch.

Now all I need is a decent night's sleep and I should be back in business. Living on a Luna bar and two Krispy Kremes yesterday before getting home for dinner probably wasn't a good idea, neh?

Back to the farmer's market -

To find a couple of new things have been added.

I now have raclette cheese to melt on my challah tonight - thankyouverymuch - and I'm having fresh-cooked sole over rice pilaf with garlic-roasted potatoes and grilled zucchini for lunch.

Now all I need is a decent night's sleep and I should be back in business. Living on a Luna bar and two Krispy Kremes yesterday before getting home for dinner probably wasn't a good idea, neh?

Submitted for further examination.

The whole "women having children" issue.

Since I hadn't see it anywhere on the FL this morning -

This woman:



Is in jail, no bail. Why?

This woman:



Is the hospital after an emergency c-section was completed, and remains in critical condition.

Pennsylvania State Police said Peggy Jo Conner attacked her neighbor, Valerie Oskin, in Oskin's trailer early Wednesday. Conner then drove Oskin, who was eight months pregnant, about 15 miles to a remote area and tried to cut through a C-section scar on her abdomen with a razor blade. Oskin has a 7-year-old son.

I see a lot of discussion about the woman who's had her 16th baby - and everyone looks hale, healthy and well-groomed in the few photographs you can see.

Wealth comes in a lot of forms - I keep repeating that money is not the only currency people deal in.

The two stories are tied together in that it's women having babies - or NOT having babies - that's at issue.

And until we address the innate issue of valuing a female life based on that fact, we won't make much headway on many of the other issues.

I'm sure there's a huge rant in here someplace. But I need to keep it simple because, well, no time.

Who's at fault?

The person doing the deed. First person who blames a man in either of these cases, looses influence points. Big time.

(The 16 kids look like the product of improved living conditions, BTW. They look like the product of a lot of conditions being met, including the social network to support such an undertaking. You can bet the two adults are NOT doing this alone.)

And it's shallow and very callous, but is it my imagination or is the criminal significantly uglier than the victim? Is having a baby that much an leveler in that regard? It really does something for the argument that women having children because of some deficiency in their self-esteem will not succeed, doesn't it?

Sad. Unbelieveably...there just are no words.

Submitted for further examination.

The whole "women having children" issue.

Since I hadn't see it anywhere on the FL this morning -

This woman:



Is in jail, no bail. Why?

This woman:



Is the hospital after an emergency c-section was completed, and remains in critical condition.

Pennsylvania State Police said Peggy Jo Conner attacked her neighbor, Valerie Oskin, in Oskin's trailer early Wednesday. Conner then drove Oskin, who was eight months pregnant, about 15 miles to a remote area and tried to cut through a C-section scar on her abdomen with a razor blade. Oskin has a 7-year-old son.

I see a lot of discussion about the woman who's had her 16th baby - and everyone looks hale, healthy and well-groomed in the few photographs you can see.

Wealth comes in a lot of forms - I keep repeating that money is not the only currency people deal in.

The two stories are tied together in that it's women having babies - or NOT having babies - that's at issue.

And until we address the innate issue of valuing a female life based on that fact, we won't make much headway on many of the other issues.

I'm sure there's a huge rant in here someplace. But I need to keep it simple because, well, no time.

Who's at fault?

The person doing the deed. First person who blames a man in either of these cases, looses influence points. Big time.

(The 16 kids look like the product of improved living conditions, BTW. They look like the product of a lot of conditions being met, including the social network to support such an undertaking. You can bet the two adults are NOT doing this alone.)

And it's shallow and very callous, but is it my imagination or is the criminal significantly uglier than the victim? Is having a baby that much an leveler in that regard? It really does something for the argument that women having children because of some deficiency in their self-esteem will not succeed, doesn't it?

Sad. Unbelieveably...there just are no words.

Submitted for further examination.

The whole "women having children" issue.

Since I hadn't see it anywhere on the FL this morning -

This woman:



Is in jail, no bail. Why?

This woman:



Is the hospital after an emergency c-section was completed, and remains in critical condition.

Pennsylvania State Police said Peggy Jo Conner attacked her neighbor, Valerie Oskin, in Oskin's trailer early Wednesday. Conner then drove Oskin, who was eight months pregnant, about 15 miles to a remote area and tried to cut through a C-section scar on her abdomen with a razor blade. Oskin has a 7-year-old son.

I see a lot of discussion about the woman who's had her 16th baby - and everyone looks hale, healthy and well-groomed in the few photographs you can see.

Wealth comes in a lot of forms - I keep repeating that money is not the only currency people deal in.

The two stories are tied together in that it's women having babies - or NOT having babies - that's at issue.

And until we address the innate issue of valuing a female life based on that fact, we won't make much headway on many of the other issues.

I'm sure there's a huge rant in here someplace. But I need to keep it simple because, well, no time.

Who's at fault?

The person doing the deed. First person who blames a man in either of these cases, looses influence points. Big time.

(The 16 kids look like the product of improved living conditions, BTW. They look like the product of a lot of conditions being met, including the social network to support such an undertaking. You can bet the two adults are NOT doing this alone.)

And it's shallow and very callous, but is it my imagination or is the criminal significantly uglier than the victim? Is having a baby that much an leveler in that regard? It really does something for the argument that women having children because of some deficiency in their self-esteem will not succeed, doesn't it?

Sad. Unbelieveably...there just are no words.