Cormac, age 2 and a half. Even republican parents tell their children that their table manners need to be nice enough to eat with the Queen.
Archive for October, 2011
Dining with the Queen
Posted in cormac, motherhood, motherhood bliss, toddlers on October 17, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I can talk
Posted in co-sleeping, cormac, feminism, feminist motherhood, me, motherhood, motherhood bliss, toddlers, work and family (im)balance on October 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This week I flew out overnight to speak at a conference. I was invited to talk about work-life balance, but more as the writer of this blog than on the basis of my off-line work. It is the second time this year that I have had a conference spot from blogging. Felt good. (Flattering). Also [...]
Bridge over troubled water
Posted in bill, book review, downsized living, feminism, feminist motherhood, home, me, politics, pop culture, surnames, work and family (im)balance on October 16, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Image credit I love this idea, were Bill and I rich we would definitely build a house with a bridge. Practically speaking it is kind of fantastic but I also really like the symbolism of ‘together but seperate’. I guess our own ‘bridge’ has been not getting married, not sharing bank accounts, not changing my [...]
The intensity inside single parent families
Posted in classism, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, politics, single parenthood on October 13, 2011 | 15 Comments »
I don’t relate to all of this article, “Single Moms are Crazy” – my mother didn’t choose to be a single mother with three children and she wasn’t particularly bohemian. But I do relate to the intensity Katie Roiphe is describing in this piece about her single parent family. And I relate also to that [...]
Eat the garden
Posted in downsized living, home, motherhood, motherhood bliss on October 10, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I’M not interested in being hip or a hippie. Nor does my happiness particularly hinge on artisanal cheese. (Odd, perhaps, given that I grew up a stone fruit’s throw away from Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif.) As a 42-year-old Brooklyn mother of three, what I care about is lunch, and feeding my family on a [...]
Breastfeeding or bottle-feeding, this sucks
Posted in breastfeeding, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux on October 8, 2011 | 52 Comments »
There is an interesting debate happening at the moment between a couple of the big name feminist mothers and it’s about breastfeeding, or rather the manner in which the breastfeeding ‘message’ is promoted to women. Is the breastfeeding ‘message’ heavy-handed? Yes. Is there a hurtful judgemental attitude towards mothers who bottle-feed? Yes. But it’s more [...]
When did you first identify as feminist?
Posted in feminism, me on October 4, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Recently I wrote for Mamafesto about how and when I came to identify as feminist. Then just this week I came across photos of me from that time. I was twelve or thirteen years old. Didn’t know any other feminists. Would have loved the Internet, but it was the ’80s. I wonder what year it [...]
Who knew parenting was like this?
Posted in lauca, motherhood, motherhood sux, school kids on October 3, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Lauca woke up this morning and announced that her five-day existential crisis is over. Thank goodness, it was ripping my heart in two. Poor little thing has been in a state. But this morning she told me, Mummy, my worrying has gone. All of it. Today I am not even worried about my family dying. [...]
You might be curious to see some parts of the house we bought. Or not. Don’t judge anything too harshly though, we’re only half-way unpacked because we’re still cleaning the previous (fucking) house and also we have a lot of shit here to unpack. I’m not doing any proper decorating in the place yet because [...]
Play
Posted in cormac, motherhood, motherhood bliss, toddlers, your guide to perfect play dates on October 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
At a friend’s house watching my little boy and hers playing; mostly amicably.
Categories
Twitter: what can I say? Inane and pointless like everyone else’s.
- Boys with English accents in my neighbourhood need to pipe down at this time of night. #noisyconversations 2 hours ago
-
Recent Comments
i wrote this and stuff
read my book
The Internet’s Favourite blue milk Rants
Meta
Archives
