Whatever life dishes out, and whatever we can make of it. . .
Posted in Lifestyle, Other Stuff, Parenting on Aug 27th, 2010
We’d been at it for several hours, side by side, each of us on our laptops. Spread on the small ottoman pressing against my knees were stacks of old tax forms. On the chair beside me, two more folders with notes and figures.
We actually began the process days ago, but I couldn’t continue, and my [...]
Posted in Business, Lifestyle, Other Stuff, Parenting on Aug 24th, 2010
The tale of 104-year old heiress, Huguette Clark, caught my fancy last week. Not only is this woman’s story rich with history, but it raises an extraordinary number of issues that are relevant to each of us as we deal with critical decisions in life: who to trust, minimizing family squabbling when we are gone, [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Other Stuff, Parenting on Aug 23rd, 2010
It’s a morality tale, and all about shame. About warfare and its aftermath, honor and its value, private shame according to cultural standards of the times, and personal experiences of shame.
In Mad Men’s Season 4 Episode 5, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, we feel the weight of the 1960s heavily; World Wart II is not [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Lifestyle, Other Stuff, Parenting on Jun 30th, 2010
Shower shockers
Who doesn’t do some of their best thinking in the shower? And who doesn’t recall the terrifying shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller, Psycho?
Janet Leigh is unwinding after a harried day of larceny, an eerie encounter with a creepy character, and is lulled as she finally cleans up, letting her guard down. A [...]
Posted in Culture, Lifestyle, Politics, Relationships, Sex, Sexual Politics on Jun 23rd, 2010
Al and Tipper Gore
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, by now you’ve heard the term gray divorce, likely in conjunction with the news that Al and Tipper Gore are splitting up after 40 years.
Of course, the original announcement was followed by a claim that Al Gore’s marital defection was in fact the result of [...]
Posted in Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Parenting, Sex, Sexual Politics on May 15th, 2010
1994: First Waking all over the Planet X Two
The alarm cracks my belly open like a giant jeweled watermelon fallen from the Great Wall, released blankly of angelic arms, sheepish grins. Ah, these are cotton eyes – wide and white – spooling mine.
Spiteful. Wondrous.
I marvel at the clamor and collaboration, the destruction heeding no [...]
Posted in Lifestyle, Love, Morning Musing, Parenting on Apr 30th, 2010
When marriage ends
In my morning reading, I came across an article in Forbes Woman that struck a chord. It concerns Stacy Morrison, former Editor-in-Chief of Redbook, speaking about her divorce and its aftermath in her new book, Falling Apart in One Piece: One Optimist’s Journey Through the Hell of Divorce.
This isn’t the stuff of celebrity [...]
Posted in Culture, Lifestyle, Love, Morning Musing, Parenting on Mar 25th, 2010
Those who provide the comforting advice that “one day, your kids will know what you gave up for them” are well-intentioned, and even kind. What parent doesn’t want to believe that appreciation will come for all our efforts, at some point in the future?
But I question the premise, the concept of eventual “justice” when [...]
Posted in Health, Lifestyle, Politics, Surviving Recession on Mar 18th, 2010
Whatever it was, I always did what I was told. I was the quintessential good girl: I followed the rules from the time I can remember. I studied, I smiled, I won awards. I did not rebel. I lived with secrets, and I did not speak of them.
I followed the rules and never cheated, though [...]
Posted in Business, Culture, Parenting, Sexual Politics, Surviving Recession on Feb 5th, 2010
It’s Friday. Where’s my paycheck?
I am a divorced, full-time parent, who also seeks work and has been doing so for more than a year, since the most recent layoffs – two, nearly simultaneously. I was working a corporate full-time contractor job (marketing writing) and a freelance journalism job. I managed both around parenting my boys. [...]
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