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Tuesdays are Your Turn – Free Graphics for Blogs
Today’s reader response comes from my inbox. People ask me this question a lot, and I’m happy to share the picture love: Hi, I’m thinking about starting a health blog on a different condition and I’m new to blogging. If you don’t mind me asking, where do you find some of your great drawings and [...] -
An Old School Organization Tip
Today I’m going to tell you about something that changed my life. I get email sometimes from new-to-asthma parents, asking how I manage the actual logistics of life with an often breathless child, the nuts and bolts of juggling appointments and prescriptions along with all the other responsibilities of having two kids. If you knew [...] -
The Asthma Mom Social Network
Overview and Update First, the good news. I set up a brand-new fan page for Asthma Mom so if you like this blog, why not LIKE it, officially, on Facebook? Asthma MomPromote Your Page Too Some of you used to belong to the Asthma Mom FB Group, but it didn’t work out because I didn’t [...] -
I’m Not a Messenger, But I Do Carry the Bag
I’ve gotten a crazy amount of email asking me which messenger bag I carry ever since I mentioned it in the post about carrying meds last week. Consider this a public service announcement, direct from me to you: Messenger bags are the greatest accessory ever invented in the history of raising a kid with asthma. [...] -
Meet Allie Larkin and Her Debut Novel, Stay
The term “chick lit” means about as much to me as the term “mommy blogger” does. Neither one of them really do justice to the thousands of talented women who pour their words and ideas and insight onto the page and screen or to the enormous variety of subjects they write about. I just, however, [...] -
Natural Perfume
A few years ago, I did a little research into some of purer, less synthetic perfumes out there, the ones that use essential oils rather than lab-created fragrances. And by “research,” I mean I went shopping and sampling. I discovered three issues that made finding the good stuff easier: 1. Solid or oil formulations often [...] -
Treme Sort-Of Review: Noblest Deeds
I’m a fan, not a critic. Here’s my sort-of review: Episode 5: Shame, Shame, Shame Whose shame? Let’s find out. Ooh, Things are Getting Bleaker Not that a post-Katrina setting didn’t already provide a mess of a city for the characters play around in, of course. But up until now, Treme’s themes have tended more [...] -
Treme Sort-Of Review: Cry a River, You Feel the Need
I’m a fan, not a critic. Here’s my sort-of review: Episode 4: At the Foot of Canal Street It’s Christmastime in New Orleans, and we’re starting to see which characters are slowly resettling into what we assume to be their old, pre-Katrina patterns and which are creating new ones. (Photo: HarshLight) Antoine: New Orleans > [...] -
Dawn of a Redesign
If I ever start a post with, “So, we decided to change the site a little bit” again, I want you to head to the comments post-haste, hit your Caps Lock key and write, DON’T DO IT, AMY. REMEMBER THE LAST TIME. After two weeks of prep, we woke up Sunday, started the coffee brewing, [...] -
Treme Review – To Miss New Orleans
I’m afraid I must indulge my David Simon obsession for awhile here, and while you can obviously just ignore these posts if you don’t harbor a similar obsession and aren’t planning to watch his new series, Treme, I sure hope you don’t. Wouldn’t it be more fun to watch, too, and then we can all [...]
