Susan Raffo

about a year after luca was born and after a couple of ear infections treated by antibiotics, i suddenly remembered that i didn't like d...

tonight, i miss my family. and what's funny is that most of them are gathered around me. my very lovely mother-in-law, iara, arrived tod...

Sure, the world is going to hell in handbasket and still, what I am obsessed with? The progression of my skin from oozing running rivulets o...

For the past five years, I keep being "found" by people from my past. Friends from high school, someone I knew vaguely when I work...

Sure, in childhood and adolescence, I had poison ivy every summer. Big old breakouts that my mother fought with calamine lotion until I was ...

Ok, ages ago, I posted a blog about a night when my daughter, Luca, woke up spouting vomit at 3 in the morning. One of the commentarians - h...

Last night, me, my partner Raquel and daughter Luca were doing what we often do on a summer evening: sitting on the front steps and watching...

It doesn't matter how annoyed I get by the constant corporate barrage of product placement or how tired I am of the endless train of chu...

I'm lucky that I partnered with a Brazilian. It's not just the fact that visiting family means visiting Rio. It's also all about...

When we had a daughter, my partner had this small hope that our daughter would grow up butch. You see, my partner, Raquel, is butch. Our hou...

I'm in love and it's time I came clean with it. I am absolutely and totally in love with my daughter's body. I mean, really in l...

Yeah, it's official. I am going to start training to be a bodyworker in the fall, beginning with a massage therapy course mixed in with ...

Oh how it feeds my Leo soul to have so many people ask me why I haven't blogged in awhile. It makes me feel...sniff sniff... wanted. I...

Ok, so the majority of my blog readers are people I am lucky enough to now see or at least talk to every day. But still they ask me, where i...

After six months, we are leaving this afternoon for Minneapolis. I'm going to have to change the heading on this blog - if I even keep w...

One of the things that Raquel loves best about living in her home, in Rio, is that when we're driving in the car and switch on the radio...

Luca, my four year old, was prancing across the floor the other day, her hips making like a metronome, when she stopped, literally flounced ...

Driving from our house to the grandmother's house, we stopped by a gas station to get cash and pao de queijo. Brief aside - pao de queij...

Yeah, it's real for so many women but this morning I sat by the pool with my daughter, another child her age, that child's newborn b...

We head back to Minneapolis in about three weeks. I can't believe how quickly - and how slowly - these six months have gone by. My part...