Someone is very proud! It may be hard to tell, what with the adult teeth already well in, but Ellie lost her first tooth today! It’s been a battle. We discovered her adult teeth coming in about 3 weeks ago and she refused to mess with the baby ones. They were barely loose! I think they finally...

Connor hanging out today with our midwife, Rachel Well I can't say we're any more caught up on sleep or that we even have the hang of having two kids any better, but a month has already come and gone since Connor arrived-! Hard to believe I've already nursed him over two hundred times and changed ov...

Tomorrow will mark the beginning of this blog’s fourth year — a milestone I never saw myself reaching lo those many months ago when I decided to give the ol’ blogging thing a try. A second try, actually since my poorly received, 2 posts total first attempt at blogging didn’t...

The Other Mother has hit another milestone. It's been 5 years, folks. I started the blog a week before Pearl was born, and she'll be 5 next week. Here's a link to the first posts from way back in 2004. Other good blog news: The Other Mother made the “Top 100 Healthy Mom Blogs� this year, as did ...

Every now and then your children will reach milestones.  As a parent, you smile in wonder and are proud of your child’s accomplishments.  We are at another milestone with our kids. Alligator girl is still a smartie.  We went through a rough time at the beginning of the school year because...

I've been keenly aware that I haven't posted much of substance here in quite some time. The tides of my life have been dominated by the kinds of spiritual work and experiences that I don't usually express on unfiltered entries, and there's been an erotic element which I also tend to veil here. But p...

Those porn studios grow up so fast, don't they? It seems like only yesterday that Sweetheart Video was launching their line of all girl smut—and now they're all grown up and signing contract stars! Elexis Monroe has just been signed as Sweetheart's first ever contract girl, and will represent ...

You know sometimes you go somewhere and get really great service and good food? The Keg is like that. We save up money to go out to The Keg every once in a while; it’s pretty much a guaranteed good time all round. Expensive… but good. Milestones, however, is pretty much the exact opposit...

I feel sad keeping track of such things, but it's undeniable that with the passing of Arthur C. Clarke last year, Fred Pohl stands as one of the last surviving grandmasters of science-fiction. Maybe he was never a household name like Clarke (or Isaac Asimov or Robert Heinlein, two writers he kne...

Announcing: Connor Reagan Maass, born Friday, February 6th at 9:57am, weighing 7 lbs, 2 oz, 20 inches long. Born at home with our midwife, Rachel Knudson, attending. We went to sleep on Thursday night just like any other evening but around 1:30am I woke up to contractions, which I was able to doze o...