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September 2009

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• motherhood

  Sometimes it takes a man

  09.20.09 | Permalink | 13 Comments

  On my post about joining the Bad Mother camp, our good friend Josh left a comment that ends: It’s funny. “Bad Fathers,” I think, are men who suffer from strained (or non-existent) relationships with their children. “Bad Mothers,” it seems, are women who suffer from strained relationships with other women. At first I thought this [...]

• photography, sisters

  Camera: check, Models: check, Skill: only a matter of time, maybe

  09.17.09 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  I got a new camera for the unique purpose of taking cute photos of my kids (and because Best Buy had no-interest financing and Mr. Bennet still felt bad about the belated Valentine’s Day camera I returned last February.) In August Tara and I road-tripped to San Francisco by way of Vegas (not a very [...]

• motherhood

  With apologies to Bad Mothers everywhere

  09.16.09 | Permalink | 41 Comments

  Several months ago I wrote an impassioned argument against the Bad Mother Manifesto. I felt that proudly proclaiming oneself a “Bad Mother” as a way of standing up against (admittedly insane though often-projected) societal expectations was unproductive and defensive. I even went so far as to say that the kind of women who couldn’t shrug [...]

• health

  Hey, I’ve got a bum shoulder, too!

  09.14.09 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  When Spot was several weeks old, we went to the beach for our Sunday evening walk, as we did most months of the year in Florida. As I held her squirmy little body to my chest and wrestled with the baby bjorn fastenings, my shoulder dislocated. Because I am a mother, I called Mr. Bennet [...]

• the world

  Who I want them to be

  09.11.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Last week we were invited to dinner at my grandma’s, with my aunt and her son, my cousin, the one who had the internship at the UN this summer. Apparently we can relate to David and his lovely wife Andrea because we’ve enjoyed living out of the country and we like to talk about doing [...]

• kids

  Great Moments in Mothering: Reserving the mean voice for things that really deserve it

  09.10.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  For Example: Finding two (2!) whole bananas in the trashcan. Normally I would just pick them out, but they were peeled, and sitting directly on top of a clump of kitty litter, which Spot apparently carried over from the litter box oh-so-helpfully, in the slotted shovel (get it? It’s slotted so you only scoop the [...]

• foot in mouth disease

  To the list of things not to ask a pregnant (or recently pregnant) woman, add:

  09.10.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  “Oh, are you having those painful afterbirth contractions?” (especially if she, say, had an emergency, unwanted HYSTERECTOMY three days ago.) (I’m a moron.)

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