if women ruled the world…(for my bookgroup. I love you all anyway)
Madeline Albright has said, “People who think that ‘if women ruled the world, things would be different’ must not remember high school.”
I’d like to concur and second that notion with, “People who think that ‘if women ruled the world, things would be different’ have never seen my book group in action.”
I ask myself, how can [...]
madmarriage 1.0
Why ‘madmarriage’?
Have you ever searched for a domain name? I tried everything to do with motherhood: madmomma, madhousewife, yourmamma, notyourmamma, most of these are porn sites. I don’t want to disappoint. Then I began to think, should I really advertise this as a motherhood rant?
Truth is, I’m not that great at this mothering thing. In [...]
careers I’ve tried on like pointy toed pumps, uncomfortable!!!
Assistant Editor at glossy magazine
Newspaper reporter for a very bad daily
Account executive at young ad agency on South Beach that has since imploded due to an overdose of its own cool
Landscape designer to incredibly uncool clientele. The service industry is a drag.
things I miss after 9 years’ of marriage and 2 kids
Cleavage (Yes, I breast fed but only to avoid the disdain of the other mothers at playgroup. It’s done nothing for my figure. Don’t knock cosmetic surgery. I’m considering it, if only to reposition these things. They have settled so to speak.)
A working colon (This is a story for another day but a good one)
Sex [...]
love this snark e-mailed to me by a friend
Child-Safety Experts Call to Defuse Childhood Imagination
By DAVID STRINGER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, DC—The Department of Health and Human Services issued a series of guidelines Monday designed to help parents curtail their children’s boundless imaginations, which child-safety advocates say have the potential to rival motor vehicle accidents and congenital diseases as a leading [...]
why child magazine and health journalist denise foley should be ashamed of themselves…
Why Child Magazine and health journalist Denise Foley should be ashamed of themselves…
I’ve always been suspicious of parenting mags. But highlighting the life and times of the beautiful people must sell copies. And there is no shortage of this agenda in this month’s issue of Child. We read about the products that Diddy, Ms. Locklear, [...]
the weight of two (fiction)
Heather left the apartment well before dawn. The sun had yet to rise over the dumpster, the parked cars, the leaves and litter blowing in restless tumbles. She carried a small suitcase bulging with the woolens and scarves and outer wear she’d packed for the trip North.
Her old Honda started with a shudder. She [...]
habeas corpus (fiction, chapter one)
Memories of my father, his temper, his long absences, the defeated hang-dog way he drifted around the house filling ashtrays and playing Steppen Wolf albums so the windows rattled, made it hard to conjure any tears at his gravesite.
I kicked around the mound of fresh laid sod, thinking Hillside Cemetery too pretty a place for [...]
