House Rules

House Rules Redux

Accessibility Statement

101 Things About Me

Change is God

(Octavia Butler, Parable Series)

"In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle -- this everyone knows. Yet no one acts accordingly." Lao Tse

Email

Email Frances! frances AT athenadreaming DOT org

You can email her mother too (that's me):
andrea AT athenadreaming DOT org

The Best of Beanie Baby

• Top Secret
• At The Park
• It's long and tortuous, but worth it, I promise
• Thank You
• Mom & Pop
• Decision 2006, Part the First
• Cheap
• Radio Free Frances
• In Which I Remember Why Other People's Parenting Practices are None of my God-Damned Business
• One Two Three!
• Not Two
• Beanie Baby Wants YOU
• Eugenics and Family Planning Part II
• Helpful Hints to Parents of the Averagely Sized

Recent Entries

• Monday Mission: Needs
• Frances Friday: I want to be Frances when I grow up
• Table for Two
• Free speech isn't cheap
• Come and Go
• Frances Friday: Pain is Relative
• Bitch
• Because it's not the stuff you know you're doing that you need to worry about.
• Monday Mission: Journalism
• Frances Friday: Emotional Overexcitability

Categories

Select Category Beanie Baby Brags Being Small Black Books Books Crafty Lady Decision 2006 Decision 2007 Doctors, Geneticists and Other Charlatans Female Trouble Fiction Frances Friday Friday Poetry Blogging Friends and Others Me Monday Mission Mothers and Anti-Mothers Pins and Needles Radio Free Frances Single Momming The Green Family The Green Toddler The Merry-Go-Round The Winter Holiday of Your Choice! The World TheWholeMom.com Tuesday Tear-Jerkers Web Witch Wordsmithery

Monthly Archives

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Annika Info

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The WHOYCBE Not So Secret Spoilers

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Ho Ho Ho LauraJ (This Is Me) Art-Sweet (Artificially Sweetened) Suze (Work In Progress) Tanya (Bumblerazz) KLee (The Reluctant Prophet) Amy (The Texture of Things) Sarah (Citizen Beta) YT (Yankee, Transferred) Liz (Mystery Mommy) Kim (Cookie Crumb Kids) Andrea (nna mmoy) Marla (Hello Josephine) Carrie (Bad Mama) Kris (Freakazojd's Palace) Kateri (Wet Feet) Sue (Inner Dorothy) Eryn (Pandemonium) greymama (The Beauty of Gray) Jennifer (Fervor) CCW (Destined to be the Crazy Cat Woman) Susan (Granola Crunchy) Gawdessness (Building the Bigger Family) Andrea (A Peek Inside the Fishbowl)

Random Writer's Quote

What you have to do now is work. There's no right way to start. ~ Anna Held Audette

My Burgeoning Media Empire

(that's a joke)

Dwarfism Resources:

• Little People of Ontario
• Little People of America
• Parents of Little People 2
• Big Enough

Frances's Big List of Misdiagnoses and False Positives

Prenatally:

• Achondroplasia
• Hypochondroplasia
• T21 (Down Syndrome)
• Turner Syndrome

Postnatally:

• Crouzon Syndrome
• Pfeiffer Syndrome
• Pyknodysostosis
• 3M Syndrome

Blogs I'm Reading

• Diary of a Goldfish
• The Gimp Parade
• Nickie's Nook

Other Mom Sites:

• Literary Mama
• Toronto Mama!
• Centre for Research on Mothering
• Mother Outlaws
• Hip Mama
• Mamaphonic

Green Family Library

The title of this blog was taken from the short story "The Language of Nna Mmoy" by Ursula le Guin in her collection, Changing Planes. I won't tell you why or how, because I want you to read the story and figure it out for yourself.