This is Camila when she was first born, note her dark skin and hair
This is Camila now, with blond hair and light (though tanned) skin.
Who knew that babies bleach out?
Author: marga (Page 120 of 158)
Tango has an amazing quality of making you nostalgic for things you never experienced themselves. Many tangos were written from the 1930’s to 50’s, its golden age, and thus reflect on a society that we never experienced. Indeed, many tangos are about people looking back in their youth, to an even older Argentina that now lives only in books, old movies and tango lyrics.
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When I was a kid and we were travelling, we’d often ask my father how much longer it would be, and his inevitable (and enfurating) answer would be “half an hour.” Now, as a mom myself, I can probably understand how tired he was asking of hearing us ask that question – and how he wanted to avoid us whining if the real answer was more than half an hour (though we always suspected it probably was), though as a child it frustrated me to no end.
Apparently, the American authorities have come up with a similar answer to questions about the war on Iraq (and other wars for that matter). From Virginia Sen. John Warner (R) saying in Nov. 2005 that the next six months is the critical period to restore full sovereignty, to US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad saying in May 2006, that the next 3 to 6 months will be critical in iterms of this government’s image and impact on the Iraqi people, it seems that everyone has six months in their minds. Of course, like my dad’s half-an-hour, the six months come and go, only to have expectations last another six months – but hey, at least it’s an answer.
See:
Endgame in Iraq? A six-month equation | csmonitor.com
Salon’s Broadsheet blog reports on an AP story about how the cover of a parenting magazine, Babytalk featuring a nursing baby (see left) has been creating a lot of controversy. A lot of mothers seem to find the idea of breastfeeding gross, and the picture of a naked breast (even one where the aerola has been airbrushed away) even grosser.
I can only imagine how they deal with seeing naked breasts in public. Fortunately I’ve never actually experienced the problems first hand. This is probably because I live in California, one of the most breastfeeding-friendly states in the nation. The law here is that you can breastfeed in any public space. And I have. The library, museums, restaurants, parks, planes, pretty much anywhere I could sit down and quelch my baby’s hunger. I breastfed until my baby was 16 months old, and by the end of it she insisted on eating while standing or looking around which meant my breast was even more exposed (and contorted) than even I was comfortable with. But I never had a problem. I never noticed any dirty looks – not that I would, I tend to be oblivious to the environment around me – or heard any assinine coments. Thanks God, ’cause it wouldn’t have been pretty if I had š
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