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And... Everyone’s Okay With This?

(Warning - I’m about to get political, but it only lasts a paragraph, so if you don’t agree with my angry liberal spewing, it doesn’t go on for too long. Don’t worry.) The older I get, unlike most people, the more liberally angry I seem to be becoming. (Health insurance is a big focus of this – I hate that I had a procedure that may be billed to my insurance company at $35,000, but my insurance only pays $10,000 of it and I am not asked for any more money. Meanwhile, because of whatever circumstances that may be out of people’s control, and we’re not gonna argue about what those are right now, some people don’t have health insurance and they’re asked to pay the full amount. Um, if they can’t afford health insurance, how are they going to afford procedures that are ridiculously expensive and clearly not even worth a third of what people are being charged? People in America degrade social healthcare, when most first world countries have it, and it really does work pretty well. Mo...

The Family that Pees Together

Or the One about family restrooms. While I was still pregnant, we stopped into a “family restroom” in one of the many local malls to see exactly what it entailed. It was gorgeous – you had to walk around a wall, but on the other side were two leather gliders where you could nurse your baby. Off to either side of that were two bathrooms. What a relief to know such a wonderland existed! We were pretty impressed and figured this is what most places would be like. Not true. When you have a baby, you start to find all kinds of inclusive and non-inclusive parenting places. Not every place of business even has one of those pull down changing table wall units for you to use. When we took Lily to the oral surgeon, Jon had to use one of our portable changing mats to change her on the floor. And that was relatively new, clean building. How much can those wall units possibly cost? For a place that does pediatrics, you would think investing in one of those would be thoughtful. I think my favo...