Coffee, Chaos and Cuss Words

While visiting a favorite Facebook page of mine- Confessions of a Childfree Woman (by the amazing Marcia Drut-Davis) I noticed a post today where she remarked that an article she posted was removed by Facebook. According to Facebook, she didn't follow the rules for 'Community Standards'.  I call- BULLSHIT! There is so much 'inappropriate' content (porn, excessive nudity, violence, hate speech, etc) which could never possibly play by their rules that it's amazing that THIS article managed to push more than a few buttons. And why is that? Because it treated pregnancy as nothing more than the medical and biological event that it is and removed all the sacred and religious fervor that usually accompanies the subject.  Let us remove the craptastic rose colored glasses here. I refused to bow my head and only treat the subject of reproduction with reverence. Pregnancy as a rule should not be treated with reverence-as if every child is the alleged return of the Christia...

Yeah....I'd been struggling with the name of this blog for a bit. Finally hit me that this blog, should keep a theme with my other blog. So....My Crazy Childfree Midlife is now......Childfree Moxie!  Gods...that just feels so much better...and I'm all over social media.....woohoo....!!! So, this will be primarily for my Childfree musings...no other subjects will be posted here except as to how they relate to my status as a person who is Childfree by Choice. If you want to get to know the rest of what I think and feel in life, then follow me on some of my other sites.... Follow me on Twitter: @Adelina313 My other blog: Mid-Stride Moxie- http://midstridemoxie.blogspot.com/ and on Tumblr, too! http://midstridemoxie.tumblr.com/ In the meantime...I'm gonna go grab some dessert and hunker down for an episode of Dr Who..... More CF goodness coming soon!  

Why can't we have Adult-only spaces? Why does everything have to be 'family friendly'? What happened to the days when children had to grow up, learn the rules of proper behavior at home and THEN were brought out into the world? Seems to me that the problem is (as usual) not the kids, but the parents. Parents, desperately afraid they are going to miss out on a LIFE since they've had children, suddenly are up-in-arms whenever someone suggests any kind of adults-only space. There seems to be a ridiculous backlash whenever a restaurant, movie theater, or other business try to set aside a place for adults to be with other adults SANS kids. Those parents feel entitled to run roughshod over everyone else's rights and protest that it isn't fair that  their little darlings can't be part of the club. The real issue is why THEY can't be part of the club. These parents are free to frequent any of these establishments, just NOT with their kids in tow. Have we really ...

One morning about 20 years ago in February, I drove into the parking lot at my job and parked, ready to start my shift at the Behavioral Health Center. It was around 6:30am on a Sunday and the facility was located on a college campus.....NO ONE was around this bitterly cold morning. I got out of my car and started to walk toward the building when I abruptly came to a halt. I was smelling roses all around me... It was impossible! There was no one around me, it was the dead of winter, no flowers were growing, and there had been no one near by me at all!  Yet, there it was-strong, beautiful and real-the scent of roses. When I spoke to my spiritual teacher and mentioned that experience....she just smiled at me. ' How wonderful. That....was the Goddess. She was trying to get your attention.' She explained that many other people have been touched by the Goddess and have smelled roses in Her wake, too. It was one of the Goddess' calling cards, so to speak. I paused, took a deep b...