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• Spot, parenting

  Compromise

  11.17.08 | Permalink | 13 Comments

  I leave it to you to guess which pieces she insisted on and which pieces Mom gently persuaded her into. I plan to assert myself when it actually snows, though. She WILL wear socks with those flipflops, if it’s the last thing I do. Jane p.s. Dick was thinking to himself this morning (early, as [...]

• books

  Do your parents know what your favorite book is?

  10.24.08 | Permalink | 26 Comments

  Sarah Palin is like a national Rorschach inkblot test, especially for women. What we see when we look at her tells an awful lot about us. I’m not talking her politics per se, I’m talking her great hair, snappy clothes, edgy glasses, and Tina Fey sparkle. Maybe we hate her because she’s beautiful. Maybe we [...]

• fashion, fight the frump

  Motherhood’s New Clothes

  05.30.08 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Is there anything worse than the perfume-pushers at department stores who douse the unwary? Probably not, but I also don’t like fashion or makeup or shopping. My ovaries have even failed me in my laundry endeavors. In fact, it is entirely possible that I am not a woman at all, except for those three children [...]

• breastfeeding, fashion, fight the frump

  Hide the Hunchback

  04.04.08 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  First, another confession, and then, an honest-to-appearance tip. I ran (in the minivan) to Walmart right after walking with Shalece today. While I didn’t shower or anything, I did change out of my exercise clothes. But if the same kind of people shop at your Walmart as do at mine (people like me), then you [...]

• exercise, fashion, health, tickle me tuesday

  Tickle-Me Tuesday: Random bits of absurdity

  02.19.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Thanks for reducing the pressure, Marie: ‘absurd’ seems more easily attainable than ‘humorous.’ And I love the new logo. So, what strikes me as absurd today is the warning on the exercise bike at our apartment complex. It says to stop immediately if you feel pain, dizziness, shortness of breath, faint or ANY DISCOMFORT. Well, [...]