I like to think I’m a hands-on parent. Somewhere between absent and hovering. In an attempt to “participate” in my children’s “upbringing,” I will sometimes look over their shoulder to see what they’re listening to/watching on their various devices. Shockingly, the 16-year-old and the 14-year-old find this annoying. The 9-year-old, however, STILL LOVES ME, and […]
Brave New World of Parenting
I am so proud of my kids. Most people are proud of their kids, but this week, I feel especially proud. My husband and I did something very scary this weekend. We left the kids home by themselves overnight. It was my daughter’s idea. Now, those of you who have declared us delusional and insane, please […]
Is There No Way to Win?
I would love to get Anne-Marie Slaughter and Marissa Mayer in a room together. They could commiserate about how their personal life choices are the subject of such public scrutiny and criticism. They could play a drinking game wherein every time someone cheers for them to succeed they take a shot. Every time someone insists […]
Women CAN’T have it all. Neither Can Men.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, the first female director of policy at the State Department, wrote a very powerful piece in The Atlantic about the pain and conflict experienced by women who were raised being promised the falsehood that “You can have it all! Career! Family! Balance! Health! And if you don’t, we’ll be sooooo disappointed in you!” In “Why […]
Time to Go.
To the Editor of Time Magazine, Rather than play into the outrage you so transparently tried to provoke, I shrug my shoulders. Rather than blog about the unfairness and insensitivity of your cover, I leave that to others who have done so with far more aplomb than I could. Rather than read the firestorm of […]
Reblog – “In Their Corner”
I wrote this last May after hearing about an absolutely horrific, avoidable car accident in which several teenagers (one of them was an acquaintance’s niece) lost their lives. Some of them, slowly. I’m reblogging it because Spring Break is upon us, and after that, Senior Weeks, Prom season, then graduation parties. Catonsville Patch re-ran it […]