by Aliza Worthington

in reverse chronological order…

• Happy ANYTHING, Okay? – My take on seasonal greetings. 🙂
• Go Daddy Inspires This Go Mommy to Go BYE-BYE. – Go Away, Go Daddy.
• Suspension Notice – Still waiting to hear if Scientific American actually employs someone named Brian Eldridge, so that I can send my response directly to him. Haven’t heard back, yet. Hmmm.
• If Not Now, When? – Gut reactions to something that makes no sense.
• Who’s THAT guy? – A little history lesson. What can I say? I’m a geek…
• Four More Years – Please? – In which I out myself as an Obama supporter…
• It Goes to 11. – Enough about you. Let’s talk about me. THEN we can talk about you.
• Happy New Year? – Something unexpected dawned on me that first month away at college.
• Westchester Spring Fun Run
• Bizarre Love Triangle, Baseball Edition – Can a baseball girl love two teams?
• Munich 11 Postscript – A postscript to “Doing the Right Thing” and “Bearing the Torch.”
• I Heart Chevrolet – Loving Chevy’s truck ad – I can at least pretend they heard me when I was ranting about boys and pink…
• Doing the Right Thing (Part 1 of 2) – Pastor Ken Kovacs and I are partnering to do a two-part blog about remembering those slain in the 1972 Munich Olympics. Here’s my contribution.
• Is There No Way to Win? – A discussion of two very high-profile, highly personal decisions. (Not mine.)
• Dear Ray Rice, (A message on July 4th) – A response to Ray Rice’s July 4th message.
• Women Can’t Have it All. Neither Can Men. – What I hope is a common sense response to what really should not be a gender issue. A human issue? Yes.
• A Silly Aversion, A Serious Question – What’s really behind the censure of Michigan Rep. Lisa Brown?
• Vaginas to the Left, Vaginas to the Right – What’s a little “insert anatomically correct word for female genitalia here” between friends?
• Still Measuring Success… – A fond look back at school year 2011-2012…
• Time to Go – Adding my voice, but felt like waiting until the dust settled. Enough, already. Buh-bye, Time.
• Stranger Danger, Part Un – Here is Part Un of Stranger Danger – a piece I link to in Part Deux, and wrote 18 months ago. Teach you kiddos awareness, please!
• Stranger Danger, Part Deux – Creepy Facebook come-ons. In some ways they feel worse than creepy come-ons in person.
• Mommy Wars, Cadillacs and Etch-a-Sketches – Wherein I throw a little tantrum. I need a time-out.
• The Accidental Seder (Phlegm Isn’t a Plague?) – It wasn’t on purpose, but we may have had a seder a coupla years ago…
• Fake it ‘Til You Make it – A little advice to politicians of all stripes. We’d like you a lot more if…
• An Open Letter to Pro-Lifers – Please consider seriously and discuss. I mean, really, really discuss.
• I Can See Clearly Now – Back in the saddle, thanks to writing… 🙂
• Rose-colored Glass, Cracked (Part 3) – Wherein I channel Ralphie, Buddy the Elf, and the Alaskan Bullworm from Spongebob. It was quite a week.
• Rose-colored Glass, Part 2 – Getting to know the students and teachers in my week-long intensive glassblowing class at the Pittsburgh Glass Center
• Rose-colored Glass – I’ve written a lot about gender issues and politics lately. The next logical topic is, of course, glassblowing, right?
• Why Am I Not Cheering? – I’m sad about the whole thing.
• Et Tu, Komen?
• Ya Got to Have Friends – People…people who need people…(Last for a while of the Miss Representation-inspired blogs, while I focus getting a screening in this here state.)
• Pink Legos – Part II – I was ready to have my mind changed – and then I wasn’t.
• Buy Pink Legos. Please. – Buy pink. But not why you might think. And not for whom you might think.
• I’ve Got the Pink Blues. (The Great Pink v. Blue Debate) – As my niece so eloquently put it, maybe we should cut pink some slack.
• Small Comfort for Mothers, Fetuses, and Jews – Dissecting the analogy that compares abortion to the Holocaust.
• HR 358 – Protecting life? Letting Women Die? Neither? – Tackling one of the thorniest women’s issues of all. Right to Life and Right to Choose – is it possible to find common ground?
• Women in da HOUSE! Not… – Women are severely underrepresented in powerful positions in government. Is this okay?
• Beauty and the Beast – Challenging perceptions of beauty.
• Multiple Choice – A bit of a preview, if you will, for an upcoming series of posts.
• Bully for You. – Recounting an indelible childhood memory.
• Second-graders and Truck Drivers – What I witnessed on a school bus Tuesday.
• Follow, Follow, Follow… – Guess who has her own blog site???
• Jew-ish – I’m not a bad Jew, really – I’m just Jew – ish.
• Suspicious Minds (apologies to Elvis) – A friend’s offhand remark brings me to this life-changing Columbo moment. A back-to-school gift to anyone whose kids can handle a butter knife and a ziplog baggie.
• Ballerinas on the Moon – Did you have a Mr. Andros in your life? I hope upon hope that you did. Share your stories and thoughts in the comments.
• Driving to Distraction – There’s a reason why we leave the room when we get a phone call. It’s harder to leave the room when it’s a moving car.
• Equals – Despite this weekend’s holiday, I find myself pondering a notion of equality that has very little to do with American independence. Sorry…please read it anyway! 🙂
• Blog: A Parent’s Measure of Success – As the school year ends, one parent asks what have you accomplished?
• Marriage… – A fresh look at marriage. And I am only mostly kidding!
• In Their Corner – The “talk.” No, not that “talk.”
• The Worthington Post – I am dabbling in the world of blogging…please allow me to introduce myself. 🙂
• Moms Talk: How Do You Handle Allowance? – Should you make your children do chores or tasks in return for spending money?
• Moms Talk: What are you Doing for Spring Break? – Share your thoughts and ideas of how you’re surviving the week.
• Moms Talk: Texting, Driving and Teens – First ever “Only Fools Text and Drive Day” campaign is Friday.
• Moms Talk: How Do You Handle Media with Your Children? – What media rules do you implement in your household?
• Moms Talk: What Would Happen if Parents Stopped Volunteering in Schools? – With budget cuts, schools are relying more on PTAs and volunteers. Is this a good or bad thing?
• Catonsville 11-12 Boys Baseball Place Second in Tournament!
• Kids Go the Distance for Westchester’s Playground!