I’m warning you, folks: my dander is up. One week ago the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team set the Division I college basketball record for consecutive victories with their 89th win in a row. 89 straight wins! Much was made in the media about whether the UConn women’s win streak can really compare to [...]
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After all this heavy talk about blogging and balance, I thought it might be time to lighten things up chez Motherese. I mean, come on, it’s almost summer – thanks to temperatures in the 80s and daily thunderstorms, it certainly feels like summer – so it is my pleasure today to bring you the next [...]
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I’ve written before about my lack of personal style. As epitomized by my very “not me” purse, my wardrobe is a messy mixture of gifts, ill-fitting relics, and a few inadvertent gems. But what bothers me about my clothes isn’t that they are more Target than Lhuillier (that doesn’t bother me at all, in fact); [...]
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The news cycle leading up to the Academy Awards and its focus on the year’s top movie performances got me thinking about the roles we all play in our own lives. In many of my relationships, I play a leading role. I am my parents’ only daughter and my brothers’ only sister. I am Husband’s [...]
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A recent article in the New York Times captured my attention, not only for its subject matter, but also for the comments that it drew. In “How to Speak Nanny”, Hilary Stout explored the uneasy relationships that exist between many working mothers and the women they hire to care for their children. According to Stout: [...]
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On Friday, Big Little Wolf posted a passionate and provocative piece about the value – both monetary and metaphysical – of parenting. Both the post and a comment by my buddy Jane – about an article she had read attaching a dollar value to the job a mother does – buzzed around my brain for [...]
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When I was in second grade, I lobbied my teacher to be the first girl in my school’s history to be the narrator at First Communion. Being the narrator was the plum speaking part and, as I pointed out to Mrs. M., I couldn’t understand why a girl – clearly so fond of her own [...]
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It’s time for some more Wednesday wisdom with Judith Warner. During our first few installments, we explored balancing our premotherhood and postmotherhood selves; the burden of modern husbandhood and fatherhood; and the “Motherhood Religion.” Today we’ll take a look at the burden of female beauty – attaining it and maintaining it. Over the weekend, Husband [...]
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Want an example of a working mom successfully compromising to make her marriage work? Then check out Jodi Kantor’s long portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama in yesterday’s New York Times magazine section. What is so refreshing about this article – or really, what’s refreshing about Michelle Obama in general – is how open it [...]
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