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By Vanessa Query — April 1, 2013 Filed Under: Culture, Wellness

My Interview for the Knowing Birth Series

Megan Alton over at Waking Up Happy has been conducting interviews as part of her Knowing Birth series. I am honored to have my interview featured. Where did you choose to have your birth and why?… …It was only when I was pregnant that I learned about Ina May Gaskin. I found out that the […]

By Vanessa Query — December 16, 2012 Filed Under: Recipes, Sweets, Vegetarian

Traditional Family Chocolate Bread Pudding Recipe

Chocolate Bread Pudding | They Call Me Oystergirl

I grew up eating the most amazing chocolate bread pudding the world has ever known, which came from my great-grandmother. I’m not sure if it came from her originally; that’s as far back as I can trace it. My mother remembers that her mother often made it for my grandfather (who would have grown up […]

By Vanessa Query — November 10, 2012 Filed Under: Culture, Wellness

A Critique of a Critique of Extended Breastfeeding

I’m not sure why I opened What to Expect the Toddler Years (Eisenberg/Murkoff/Hathaway, 1994/1996). Morbid curiosity I guess. The books in this series are notorious for maintaining the status quo, but they do so in a typically non-invasive way, especially if you go into it wary-eyed. Early in my pregnancy, I learned to take everything […]

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