Claire Conger

Free Donuts—Take All You Want! We’re throwing away the scales, and food is free! We trust you to eat responsibly.  Read more... (731 words, estimated 2:55 mins reading time)

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I’m a heathen, according to my grandmother. She took me to her church, once, and said I couldn’t take communion. I wasn’t baptized. They didn’t have communion at my church, those little crackers and a sip of, uh, was it grape juice? She was Episcopalian, I think, and for a Protestant about as close as you can get to Catholic.  Read more... (401 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

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Posture guru Kathleen Porter posits that placing babies on their backs brings a significant risk of autism. They lie helpless and don’t develop the core strength required to hold up their heads. Then we encase them in little bucket strollers and car seats, their tail bones tucked, and they don’t get enough time to feel the sensations resulting from pushing against the floor and so do not learn to use their bodies in a natural way. Slumped posture results and inhibits the circulatory system such that the brain is not properly nourished.  Read more... (396 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

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Today’s idea is courtesy of Carina Chocano.  Read more... (233 words, estimated 56 secs reading time)

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You Play the Girl by Carina Chocano: You Play the Girl because that’s your only option. I read the title backwards. I read it as a young girl bossing another in a game of house. I had to finish the book before I realized “playing the girl” is all about limited options for how one might maneuver through the minefield of Madonna-whore contradictions that shade our culture.  Read more... (373 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

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