In my town most churches have banned Halloween and have “Fall Fests” instead. The kids aren’t allowed to wear costumes in school anymore.
No one trick or treats in my neighborhood. There’s one neighborhood, the rich one, that gets all the trick or treaters bussed in. Trunk or Treat is the new thing, going to a safe church […]
Not to focus only on the negative with NOW Says It’s Enough Already, equally deserving of your time and attention is the list of positive advertising.
Companies like Crystal Light, Cover Girl, Until, Mudd, Kaiser Permanente (blight on society though they are), Girl Scouts, Eileen Fisher, Kohl’s/New Balance, Liz Claiborne, Dove, Reebok and Phoenix Wealth Management all […]
Take a leisurely click right over to NOW’s Love Your Body expose on current advertising that’s more than a little offensive to women.
Here’s the thing: If all of our messages are about the casual consumption of half the population, and that’s the same half of the population who is doing the mothering, nurturing and teaching of future […]
Adage says Supermom is dead. They are advising advertisers to stop putting Supermom in ads because the rest of us - so so parents keeping slightly cluttered house - hate her.
Former Letterman writer Jill Besnoy is at the front of the anti-perfection brigade. She created the website Honest Baby, where she sells baby products designed to put perfection […]
I have a perfectly normal, healthy, 19-month-old baby boy named Zack. Last month I couldn’t help but ask my pediatrician if she was absolutely 100% certain that autism is not caused by the vaccinations she was about to give him.
It’s a reasonable question considering parents of autistic kids describe their own children as perfectly normal until […]
Confession: I have a black-head compulsion under florescent lighting.
There are many beauty and fashion crimes I commit - giving up on my bikini area, blatant visible panty line, bra strap leakage, and roots for days to name a few - but, I’m not repentant about most of them.
But, this one - the black-head and zit popping […]
If you’re sane you’re in a near-panic over the flipping Christmas ornaments dotting the shelves of your local haunts.
Halloween has a few more days to arrive, but the Christmas push to buy more stuff is already making the national blood pressure rise.
Maybe my Boycott Christmas in June idea didn’t seem reasonable. But, now that it’s November, I’m […]
Did you all see the Oprah with the polygamist families? Some of you might already know that I grew up Mormon.
Polygamists are not Mormons.
Mormons used to allow polygamy, but they stopped it in the 1800s when Utah became a state. (Actually, the U.S. was pissed off that they let all those wives vote and women didn’t actually […]
According to MomsRising, Today, the U.S. is one of only four countries that doesn’t have paid leave for new mothers. The others are Papua New Guinea, Swaziland and Liberia. We also lag behind in paid sick days and flexible work options so we can participate in our children’s schools and be at home before and […]
Okay, so we’re ready, or almost ready, to buy a house.
I’ve been hearing all about those amortized home loans. And I want to know how that effects my position. The media hype is that millions of people are on the verge of foreclosure. In Texas, they say there will be fewer than the rest of […]
The other day I went to the mailbox to find a ticket.
As you can see from the photo to the right, a vehicle registered in your name has been photographed running a red light.
The photo is of my license plate.
What kind of evidence is that? I thought. There is no light, no proof the light […]
If you think more mothers should be in the home then you should vote for Hillary. Yes, I mean you Conservative Republicans.
Women work. That’s a fact. But, at this point mothers are all making Sophie’s Choice (A “Sophie’s Choice” is a tragic choice between two unbearable options based on the 1979 novel by William Styron).
Choosing between […]
Okay, I’m totally kidding. I’m still trying to convince him that I am Mama, as opposed to Ainsley.
Generally, people who still poop in their pants aren’t avid readers. But, that does not stop me from handing him a board book to keep him on the potty for a few more minutes of trying. Learning to […]
Total Mushy Dorkball Warning.
As I sat at the table of 14 wonderful people at a dinner party last week I was in awe.
Awe of me. If I can risk boldness, self-love, pride, conceit -whatever you might think of a woman who is starting to expand her own realm of influence and concept of power.
I waited […]
Do you ever hear yourself speak right after you’ve said something and then you realize how you probably sound?
When I talk about my kids I’m sure I sound like a . . . what? Okay, I’m one of those women with bright children. It’s a point of pride for me that my daughter has been […]
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