Monday Montage: erotic art and all-concrete bathrooms
This week I went 50s-house crazy to find a lovely blue bathroom and a crazy rodeo decorative tile. However, the real finds were from the Offbeat Home Flickr pool: how’s about a boobie painting and a clock so big it might take over its tiny flat?
Welcome to Offbeat Home: make yourself comfortable
YAY, it’s finally happening! We are throwing wide the front door and launching Offbeat Home. Come in! Welcome! Have a snack! Here’s what you need to know about the new site…
My experience with late-onset postpartum depression
What I learned from postpartum depression: don’t suffer in silence, don’t think that your feelings are synonymous with failure, and recognize that post-partum depression can occur anytime in the first year after delivery.
“They have babies there, too”: tips for traveling internationally with an infant
Thinking of taking your infant around the world (or at least overseas)? Get hip with these guidelines and you’ll be golden!
Reading fantasy fiction and raising independent kids
Besides their heavy-handed religious allegory, eurocentrism, phallocentrism and imperialism, the Narnia books suffer from a problem common in children’s literature. We’ll call it the Aslan Dilemma.
Clean your whole house in 20 minutes a day (even if you’re a sloppy work-from-home type like me)
Like many people, I had chores as a kid and was expected to help keep the house tidy. Even so, somehow I didn’t learn how to keep house. If the same is true for you, you’ll probably find it’s very helpful to spend time actually crafting an approach to cleaning.
Lactating lesbians – inducing lactation as a nongestational mother
Melissa and Liesbeth are wives who are BOTH breastfeeding their daughter, Grace. Can you handle that much awesomeness?
Monday Montage: save the pink bathrooms!
This week’s photos feature an cat who’s a critic, a house with movable walls, and just WAIT till you see the LED coffee table.