Author: Rose Woodhouse

The university at which I teach and study is in a pretty high crime area. The campus and county police do their damnedest to get crime alerts out to the students, faculty, and staff. So I am woefully ungrateful for… Continue Reading →

So we’re hosting a fundraiser for the national support group for my son’s Ridiculously Rare Syndrome. We are doing an email/FB beg as well as holding a silent auction at a local art gallery. Question for those of you who… Continue Reading →

In the comments on my post on the hollowness of Seventeen magazine’s promise to avoid Photoshopping, beloved readers Tod and Will brought up some related points. Tod asks: How do we collectively, and also women specifically, square the desire to… Continue Reading →

Love, love, love this post by Kate Conway on Jezebel, which has the awesomest title ever of “People with Down Syndrome Can Be Jerks, Too.” Allow me to assert that this is not limited to Down syndrome, but indeed is… Continue Reading →

Seventeen magazine recently patted itself on the back for responding to a petition drive led by an enterprising teenage girl, Julia Bluhm. The magazine now will present only non-Photoshopped girls in its editorial spreads and covers. This was hailed as a… Continue Reading →

I have decided to match my tweets to my blog, and reduce the possibility of a student discovering something embarrassing. You can follow me! @rosewouldhouse

Have you ever been in a labor and delivery room? It’s the nicest room for patients in the hospital. (At least, for vaginal births – not so much C-sections). Every effort has been made to make it look un-medical. Colors… Continue Reading →