From the monthly archives:

August 2010

On Just Doing It

August 23, 2010

Our youngest ate a lot of pickles that summer. The big, refrigerated kind that, when eaten by a toddler her age, take up the whole fist. She was eating one then, sitting in her portable booster seat, strapped to the folding chair inside the screen tent that we never did close the sides [...]

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Love Thursday: Reality is Nine-Tenths Perception

August 19, 2010

In their political beliefs, their religious convictions, their personalities, their lifestyles; my best friends are a beautifully varied group. From atheist socialists to devout — some might say radical — Christian conservatives; and everywhere in between. Which is exactly why I love them. Because they are varied and so are their [...]

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More NYC BlogHer 10 Photowalk Pictures

August 18, 2010

The Break Dancer wasn’t the only thing I captured during Amie’s first annual (you hear that, Amie? Annual! I’m counting on it!) BlogHer Nighttime Photowalk. And, as promised, the rest of my favorites are here for your voyeuristic pleasure.

We begin, appropriately enough, with Kat — whose blog I would love to link [...]

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Do Your Kids Know Why You’re a Pushover?

August 17, 2010

As parents go, I’m a hard ass. I have rules and those rules are enforced, black and white. If you don’t perform at an “A” level in school, work and personal behavior you won’t be living an “A” level lifestyle. I am not my daughters’ friend. I am their mother. [...]

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I Owe a Man Some Pictures

August 16, 2010

At BlogHer, on Friday night, after the sessions had closed up shop and most of the parties had followed suit Amie hosted a small, nighttime photo walk for bloggers who love photography. There will be more about that walk (and many more of the pictures I took during it) to come; in the [...]

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Someone Has to Die

August 15, 2010

If there were any one thing I could be famous for at this point in my life my knack for having identity crises like clockwork could very well be that thing. Has it been more than twelve to twenty-four months since I’ve upset my entire schedule; turned my structure, my very being upside down? [...]

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Embracing My Superiority

August 13, 2010

In one of the sessions I attended at BlogHer ‘10 last week an audience member took the mic and uttered some of the simplest, yet most profound words I would hear all weekend. I didn’t write that quote down word-for-word so I’ll have to paraphrase here, but it still bears repeating. The topic [...]

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Because Women Can’t Think For Themselves

August 10, 2010

I am not against organizations being partisan. Partisanship makes the world turn, even if sometimes in reverse. What I am opposed to is claiming to be non-partisan while clearly acting in a partisan manner. What I am opposed to are thinly-veiled attempts to trick women into supporting a cause that, under the [...]

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You Can Take the Girl Out of The Midwest

August 9, 2010

But if you put her in New York City chances are she won’t like it.
Having spent the past four days in The Big Apple for BlogHer ‘10 I can assure you the above is true. At least for me. I really wanted to like New York City. If, for no other [...]

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Because All The Kids Are Doing It

August 2, 2010

Otherwise known as this year’s obligatory pre-BlogHer post. The one in which I will offer advice that none of you will follow. Because that’s just how women roll. I’ve come to accept it so I won’t spend time trying to change your mind, I’ll just get right to the giving of the [...]

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