Remember all the times I wrote here about how wet it was this summer? Well, this is what happened with that. Catastrophic floods is actually what happened, and it has not been nearly so cute as this image of the dinosaurs at the Museum going under water suggests. (That image is courtesy of my friend [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Grocery shopping in floods
Posted in this moment on January 13, 2011 | 24 Comments »
Regrets, you will have a few
Posted in feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, work and family (im)balance on January 10, 2011 | 16 Comments »
I’ll tell you what’s so terribly wrong with this picture? Not enough part-time or otherwise flexible job options for people. It shouldn’t have had to be a choice between working incredibly inflexible full-time hours (and then some) or pulling out altogether and losing precious attachment to the workforce for Katy Read once she became a [...]
Clutter or creativity?
Posted in me, motherhood on January 10, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I am trapped between these two seemingly incompatible ideas for running a house: I recognise the value of creative messy play. But I also love throwing things out – especially other people’s things.
The times I rolled around in truffles and you sprayed Dom Perignon on me
Posted in babies, co-sleeping, fatherhood, miscarriage, motherhood, motherhood sux, pregnancy and birth, sex of the icky parental kind on January 9, 2011 | 24 Comments »
Among the parties we attended for the New Year was one that happened to be populated with couples hoping to conceive this year. (I hope they all do because they were truly lovely people). They were almost all lesbian couples and the topic du jour seemed to be sperm. Whose sperm, how it scored in [...]
So edgy it hurts
Posted in bratz hatred/pornification/sexualising children, feminism, motherhood, motherhood sux, pop culture on January 9, 2011 | 7 Comments »
I would have thought sexualising little girls in fashion was getting kinda old (pun intended), but seems French Vogue thought it was worth another go. Nine year olds and allusions to blow jobs. Fabulous. Just remember, high-end fashion magazine, what are fun shocks for some are not so empowering for others.
Women, food, advertising
Posted in body image, feminism on January 6, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Check out this collection of pictures over at the hairpin.
The Internet does self-reflection
Posted in nothing on January 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Gawd, so so true. Also, yes, so so true. And, ah yes the blogging meltdown, also true.
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