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• motherhood, politics

  Sarah Palin at the RNC (I feel so horribly betrayed)

  09.03.08 | Permalink | 31 Comments

  At first I was skeptical about Sarah Palin. I even wrote a post called Can a stay-at-home mom be Pro-Palin? And then I watched her speech last week. Why didn’t anyone tell me that a woman can have it all? I feel like everything I’ve ever known about what a woman can be and should [...]

• motherhood, the world

  Did You Hear the One About the Sworn Virgins in Albania?

  06.25.08 | Permalink | 16 Comments

  Once upon a time in northern Albania, there was a custom of women becoming men. They dressed like men, moved about in society as men, and were content to relinquish traditional female experiences like pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and childrearing, and simple, normal human experiences like sex and the companionship of marriage, with its soaring joys, [...]

• motherhood

  Equal Parenting: Working Mom = Good, Stay-at-Home Mom = Bad

  06.17.08 | Permalink | 26 Comments

  After I had Sally, I sat on my donut while my womanly parts tried to shrink back to a non-raw-ground-beef-like consistency. Dick swept the kitchen floor, and I wept. Has any man shown this much love for his wife, that he would SWEEP THE FLOOR for her?

• tv shows

  A Good Day’s Steele

  02.23.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Before there was Moonlighting and Scarecrow and Mrs. King, there was Remington Steele. When the show was pitched, Pierce Brosnan’s character was supposed to be a figurehead in the show as well as in the detective agency, but fiction mimicked TV plotting, and Remington Steele became a major character and a major headache for Laura [...]