PB Rippey

October 2009 by PB Rippey.


Weekend Edition
(when a week’s worth of domestic business is conducted in 48 hours and no one knows what anyone is doing because it’s just not possible and besides the toddler has broken into and is ransacking the bottom kitchen cupboard and who can remember what dangerous implem… Continue

So--did you catch that piece by Hanna Rosin? It's in the April 2009 issue. I find it unfortunate; contrived; one-sided with very questionable research tactics. And just plain sad. Apparently Hanna Rosin felt like a parasite for intimating she was so OVER breastfeeding. Who made her feel this way (besides herself)? Other mommies, she claims, breastfeeding-nazi-mommies at her local park.

As the baby books tell you these days, including La Leche League's The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding and… Continue

In case you get the urge to make this Trinidadian candy, I'm here for you, Man. Just---have a really, uber-strong and enormous spoon handy for stirring and make sure your sweet tooth is in gear. You might want to lift weights, upper body only. And don't use an electric stove. In fact, you might think about never making Toolum and run screaming from the challenge. Unless you have a spinning machine, then you're fine.

Ingredients:
A frikkin' s***load of brown sugar, 1/2 c molasses, 5-8 cups cocon… Continue

From Los Angeles to Singapore, Santa Barbara to Great Britain, from mommy blog to mommy blog I heard/read the same complaint: "Worst cold/flu I've ever had! Lingering fatigue! RELAPSE! RELAPSE! RELAPSE!"

My son and I were hit the week before Christmas, suffered runny noses, but felt chipper enough on Christmas, then were hit with that virus right after and well into the new year. It is the worst cold/flu I've ever had, complete with relapses and certainly the worst illness poor T has experience… Continue

Recently we kinda sorta went Hollywood very, very briefly. I got to ask a teething question of one of the younger Drs. Sears on the CBS hit show "The Doctors".

I don't know if it's a hit show. It has lasted long enough for our episode to air. And that hunky ex-"The Bachelor" doctor hosts and SAYS MY NAME. Total hoot. Taylor had a great time trying to figure out the sound boom waving over his head during the taping. And everyone was extra nice to him because the sound boom guy and the cam… Continue