carrot's blog

So the last couple of weekends, I've been dumpstering at large universities here in Portland, as the students move out of the dorms and head back to where-ever home is for them, and throw away amazing quantities of barely-used items. Some friends and I dumpstered at Lewis and Clark College and Reed, and, once again, I am appalled at the great wastefulness of American college students.  Read More »

The other night, in the middle of the night, I had an epiphany; this isn't exactly just my own thought(s,) as I've definitely read other midwives who say the same or similar things, but I realized that by doing so many C-sections on moms and babies for reasons such as "failure to progress", we are robbing parents the time they need to become parents and to work through emotional stuff they need t  Read More »

Lately I've been really questioning my decision to become a midwife. There are probably at least a thousand reasons I'm wondering wiether or not this should be my "career," because becoming a midwife is nothing like becoming say, a tax broker or a dog groomer or a chief.  Read More »

Today, Portland celebrated "Earth Day," yet another rediculous American holiday which was started in 1971 as a protest of nuclear power, oil culture, our increasing relayence on cars, and suburbia. These days, it has become nothing more then a festival of "green alternatives" things to buy, which despite being mass producted, are touted as "green."  Read More »

The last three weeks or so, I've been sharing my bed with a four-yr old and his dad; at first I thought I'd feel crowded sharing my bed with the quintessential lost boys, but it has been absolutely lovely! There are no two people as cuddly in the world, I'm convinced!  Read More »

So lately, with the shaky economy, this unending war, uncertain political times, etc, many of my friends have begun to purchase land, with the idea of "escaping" to the woods. Some of them seem scared, or a bit paranoid, but one of my friends just seems fed up.  Read More »

So I've been thinking a lot lately about living communally, anarchy and what that means, whether I would label myself "anarchist" or not, whether I'm religious or spiritual or not, etc.  Read More »

So yesterday evening me, two housemates and two other friends drove out to the Bagby hotsprings which are on Mnt Hood. The Bagby hotsprings are really unique in that the springs flow into a series of little "houses" some of which have communal tubs, and some of which are divided into stalls and have individual tubs.  Read More »