When families have falling outs it can sometimes be as gentle as children arguing with a parent, or parents arguing over who left the toilet seat up. It also can be as volatile as major disagreements over money. All studies show that arguing in front of children in a non-respectful manner causes great stress to… Read More When the bough breaks
…and when I say fencing, I mean putting up the kind of thing that goes around gardens or on property lines. Not the Olympic sport. For a few years we have been talking about putting up a fence around our backyard. Mostly the reasoning is to keep the dogs from playing “OH LOOK A SQUIRREL”… Read More Fencing Lessons
If you talk to someone who is polyamorous and ask them if they are in the closet or not you will get a different answer every time. Polyamory is still not completely mainstream or accepted by many of the older generation, since they equate it with unethical practices of cheating, or the (unfair and incorrect)… Read More Poly Adventures: Meeting the Family
Todays post is a guest post by Anne, Ottos wife! Read and enjoy! Hey all, this is Ann! I haven’t posted anything yet to the blog, but after reading through Otto’s entry about children of the mind, I felt like I had to respond. Before I became a part of the cule, I never thought… Read More A Long Road to Children of the Mind: By Anne
Its been over a month since I updated, and I had sworn I wouldn’t do that! …I guess I was wrong. Life sometimes gets busy. Life sometimes gets crazy. It leaves us feeling like we need to just survive each day, and make it by the skin of our teeth to the next. I have… Read More Organizing is HARD!
“Patience is a virtue” goes the adage. And while sure! I completely understand and agree with it (and even preach it to my kiddos) I find that its hard to do in practice. As evidenced by some of my previous postings, one can see that I clearly enjoy chickens. What isn’t there to love about… Read More Patience is HARD
In a previous post, Nikki introduced me and mentioned that my wife and I are childless. That’s been on my mind a good bit of late. When it comes to discussions about infertility, it’s common for men to be left out of the discussion. Our society places much of the expectation to have, and care… Read More Children of the Mind
I know. Its another of those annoying buzzwords! Polycule. A cutesy word that has been appropriated by some of us in the Poly community to refer to our extended families. Some folks don’t like using it. I personally find it amusing. So we use it. My personal ‘cule is made up of one main circle,… Read More Meet the ‘Cule
Its humid… but it’s nice. Life isnt perfect, but its good. I am trying to embrace that thought process. That what I used to be was one thing, and now I am becoming something new. I used to work tirelessly all day long, be it office or outside. I was an ox. Lifting heavy things,… Read More Slow Down
Contemplation- I could have died. It all happened in an instant. A blink of an eye. An inhalation of breath. A beat of a heart. A snap of the fingers. Electric wire startling a horse into a panic so that he tried to throw himself into an epic leap to go back into the field… Read More A Contemplation from the April Accident. Or- The Ending that Began things.
Full Spouse 