Best of luck in setting “g”goals. Sometimes I think it’s the small successes that mean the most to me in the long run. Those “G”goals are nice, but the little “g”s make the world go round.

Good luck.

I like the idea of small-g goals. I also like the idea of letting go of the victim stance, of the jealousy, of the unhappiness with what I do have. Blogger Ninja Poodles just wrote a “perfect post” that addresses some of the things you and all of us go through. Maybe reading it will make you feel a bit better.

It does not solve any problems, but it does offer clues to happiness. I’ve printed it out and I read it every hour or so.

http://ninjapoodles.blogspot.com/2008/04/dear-child-dont-be-hater.html

and Notes to Self expanded on it, or rather, applied it to herself:
http://www.notestoself.us/2008/04/prt-porter.html

Hang in there.

It seems to me there’s a crying need for birth advocates who are also strong writers - to fight for midwives as well as birthing women, and for humane birthing centers, and against terrible institutions and practices.

But I am confident you’ll find your own path, and that it will turn out to have been exactly the right one all along.

I’m the creator of the list, and the editor of the print magazine it’s from. We posted it as a free read on the magazine’s web site, as a publicity thing. I don’t mind your having the list up, but I’d appreciate it if you’d link to the magazine instead of to a place that’s just reprinting it:

http://www.secular-homeschooling.com/001/bitter_homeschooler.html

Also, could you mention I’m the author?

Thanks,
Deborah Markus
Editor, Secular Homeschooling Magazine