Marlene Dotterer's Blog, page 38
March 6, 2014
“Is Breast Really Best?” The Debate Doesn’t End Here… | Evolutionary Parenting | Where History Meets Science In Parenting
This is one of the best rejoinders on the recent spate of “formula is better than breastfeeding” articles based on a study inSocial Science & Medicine.
Here’s a quote from the wrap-up. This is my biggest fear, too:
“My biggest fear with articles like that is that it completely detracts from the push to make breastfeeding easier for those who want to do it (i.e., those fighting for greater support and leave and all the other things necessary for many women to have a healthy, happy breastfeeding...
March 5, 2014
Jeanne Jackson’s Mendonoma Sightings Throughout the Year Book Launch, at Gualala Arts Center, April, 2014
My lovely friend, Jeanne Jackson, has a wonderful book coming out in April. If you’ve never been to Sonoma/Mendocino, or if you go as often as you can, you’re in for a treat with this book. For years, Jeanne has been writing a weekly column in her local paper, featuring photographs from anyone in the area who want to send her a picture of something they’ve seen in nature. They have a fun phone tree that goes into action when whales are spotted off the coast, so everyone can run for a vantage...
March 3, 2014
Just Sayin’
Robert De Niro at the Oscars:
“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination and consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.”
Tri-Valley Writers Panel Discussion
Live in the East Bay? Join us!
MARCH 27: Tri-Valley Writers Panel Discussion
Tri-Valley Writers and the San Ramon Library present “Writing in the Genres” on Thursday, March 27 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Join three of your fellow writers at the San Ramon Library, 100 Montgomery Street, for a fun-filled evening of learning how to write in different genres. Bring a pen and paper to take part in the audience participation section, then share a bit of your writing from a given prompt.
After a lifetime love...
March 2, 2014
The Time Travel Journals Shipbuilder: Reader’s Choice
Voting is open for Big Al’s Books & Pals Reader’s Choice Awards. Shipbuilder is nominated in Speculative Fiction!
You can help by voting for Shipbuilder over here. Voting is open through Midnight Eastern Time, March 12.
Spread the word, and THANKS!
February 28, 2014
Another Step
In our continuous search for good health, Himself and I have made another adjustment to our diet. I have only myself to blame.
My interest in Real Food gives me reason to learn about food policy, agriculture, paganism, and all kinds of things. It also compels me to watch lots of documentaries if it looks like it has anything to do with food. You know – Supersize Me, Food, Inc., things like that.
So it was no surprise to see something called Forks Over Knives in our movie queue. I didn’t bother...
February 27, 2014
“This well-executed, ambitious time travel yarn is also ...
“This well-executed, ambitious time travel yarn is also an engaging alternate history to the Titanic disaster.”-Publishers Weekly
“This was just fun. It’s just precisely the sort of gateway drug that got me hooked on scifi as a kid.”-Geoffrey Thorne
February 25, 2014
Excitement for The Time Travel Journals: Shipbuilder
I’ve been doing cartwheels all day: the popular review site,Big Al’s Books and Pals, has nominated The Time Travel Journals: Shipbuilder for their 2014 Reader’s Choice Award in Speculative Fiction!
Happy author here, you betcha.
B&P gave Shipbuilder a 5-star review back in October. They are continuing the love with this great nomination, but YOU have to help.
It’s a Reader’s Choice award and that meansyouget to vote for it. Voting opensMarch 2nd at 10:00 Eastern Time and ends at Midnight Easter...
February 23, 2014
A Cooking Post: aka, Those Dratted Emergency Supplies
We live in earthquake country. Unlike tornado or hurricane country, we can go decades… entire lifetimes, even…, with nary a disaster to trip us up. I’ve lived here since 1990 and have not felt more than a few minor shakes. But if I’d moved out here one year earlier, I would have felt the impact of Loma Prieta and lived through the aftermath of fires and loss of electricity, gas or water.
As bad as Loma Prieta was though, most of the longer-term effects were limited to San Francisco and the pen...
