I get very stumped when I have to describe myself in a few sentences. Recently, I had to do this here, on my blog, on Twitter, and as a request from the Meeting House of which I am a member. It’s easy to fill out a form of my age, sex, date of birth, even [...]
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In college, I took a philosophy course that also served as a women’s studies course. One day, we watched a video (yes, a VHS tape) of an interview with Gloria Steinem and her new husband. The interviewer asked why Steinem changed her mind about getting married, why it had become acceptable to her. She answered [...]
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Today, as part of the “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” series created by The Never True Tales, I’m hosting guest blogger Jamie from the new blog, Searching for Sidewalks. I found Jamie through the Motherlode’s comment section during the uproar about mommy bloggers being “negligent,” “pathetic,” “sad,” “capitalistic.” We all know those commenters were wrong, and at [...]
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Sometimes, I think I was supposed to be Jewish. Despite my interest in that faith and culture, however, I am not. My family has followed Christian practices without being overly enthusiastic about many Christian tenets and restrictions. (I am a neo-Quaker, as I divulged in a recent post for my Spill It! series.) Mostly, my [...]
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For compulsive avid readers of fiction, few books accomplish the goal of changing the way one looks at the world. Few stories invent characters and plots you tell your friends about, details you remember so clearly, they weave their way into your consciousness as you go about your daily activities. As an English teacher with a [...]
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There are studies that show the oldest child in the family has the higher IQ. I’m starting to see why, and it worries me. As my husband always reminds me, my son was not an easy baby. He ushered cry-screams that would chill your bones. When he was two weeks old, he screamed for six [...]
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Today, as part of the “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” series, Christine, from Coffees and Commutes, and I have swapped places. Christine is a working mother from Canada whose honest writing continually pulls at my heartstrings. Today, she’s writing about how her childhood experience affects her as a mother. Enjoy! Then click over to her blog for more! [...]
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It’s the first beautiful day of the year. The sun shines brightly into my house. The kids are smiling. The mailman arrives at the door in shorts. The stems of one hundred tulip bulbs I planted last fall while gloriously pregnant are beginning to rise proudly from the ground, like magic. The weedwacker fanatics are [...]
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Many of you are like me, so you have probably read, or planned to read an article tagged under “Most Popular” on the New York Times website, called “Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Building My Brand.” It’s about mothers who blog. I first heard about the article through Motherlode, a blog I visit regularly. I always [...]
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If you’ve seen the 1941 movie Citizen Kane (a movie considered by some to be the best of all time), you may remember the scene where Charles, newspaper pioneer, and his first wife, Emily, sit across their long breakfast table reading newspapers. The table is vast, as is their estate, and they are on opposite [...]
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