Mom-101 — I don't know what I'm doing either

Victoria’s Secret underwear goes after younger teens. And we get to respond.

3.25.2013

First came Ambercrombie with their padded bras in size 8T, and now, here comes Victoria’s Secret, with an eye on creating sexy underthangs for the young teen market. We’ll get to that. But first, let me digress as I tend to do: When I was in 10th grade, I plastered buttons across my gray Le [...]

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So maybe you’ve heard about this mommy war thing? If not, please allow the media to drag you into it.

3.19.2013

Several weeks ago, on my first appearance on Raising America, I was asked about a topic I hadn’t prepped for: whether moms in fact are guilty of judging each other in the “mommy wars” and whether blogs are in large part responsible for this. On the screen, a big title reading MOMMY WARS (which to [...]

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On reinvention and awesome grandmas. And a big request from me to you.

3.15.2013

One of the things that keeps me going through crises, drama, or life in general is thinking about my mother and her ability to reinvent. Regular readers will know she is nothing short of awesome–and now, thankfully, healthy too. She’s the grandma with a pink streak in her hair, the triceps of a 30 year [...]

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And then it was over.

3.10.2013

It always bugged the crap out of me how imprecise our language is for the relationships that commonly exist today. There was never a good term for “guy you commit to and have kids with while never getting married.” So really, I shouldn’t be surprised that there’s no good term for that same relationship once [...]

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This is a mother’s love. This is a daughter’s love.

3.08.2013

I spent the day in the hospital with my mother yesterday. I haven’t been able to write about it because the fear of the possibilities was too great to process, too much emotional weight to bear. I am not nearly prepared for the distinct possibility that my mother is, in fact, mortal. Actually I’m fairly [...]

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Delete.

3.06.2013

Next to the silver laptop, the modem, the iPhone charger, the printer/fax/scanner combo, there sits an old fashioned Rolodex file on my mother’s small wooden desk.

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