Anyone else suffering? Last night was the first night without the show I love, tire of, return to, much like a friendship. I’m an ambivalent fan and then I’m a huge fan, in the course of one episode. I’ll wonder, can I stand Hannah’s hypochondria, Shoshanna’s style sense, Marni’s identity crisis? Is Adam a [...]
November 6, 2012
Here at Femamom we take the political very personally and the personal, very politically. In order to keep the conversation flowing, ideas blooming and the daunting mandate of democracy chugging along, please, please, vote. Thank you. (Image: Allhiphop.com)
October 6, 2012
Tiny coverage in the NY Times Magazine about “The Anarchist” David Mamet’s new play about a prisoner and her parole adviser, starring Debra Winger and Patti LuPone. Winger says that she was kicked out of the Actor’s Studio by Shelley Winters who said, “You’re not doing what I asked you.” Anyway, Winger also talks about [...]
September 30, 2012
I’m a psychology geek and a theory junkie. I love contemplating new therapeutic paradigms. Some people read Popular Science or Time, I read psychology magazines and studies. I’m partial to longevity studies comparing the overweight mouse to the slim. Slim mice live longer, overweight mice die early, but have voracious sexual appetites. They easily find other chubby mice [...]
August 8, 2012
Do the people who knew us when, know us better than the people who know us now? Maybe. On Saturday family friends visited. Old friends, from way, way, way back when I was growing up in Vermont. They came inside our house with two gifts: A book and toilet bowl cleaner. They know me like [...]
July 12, 2012
I pulled my back out on my date with the A-Hole from Bridesmaids. You know, the Jon Hamm character? A perfect storm of vanity and self-consciousness converged on a bench, when I tried to make my bare legs (100 percent humidity had me in shorts) look their best. I alternated between crossing them (bad for [...]
June 14, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012: NPR has Sandusky’s trial analysis on every a.m. talk show. According to an expert on men in prison, there is a huge number of men clogging the penal system who have histories of sexual abuse. All those men, untreated for sexual abuse. All those men with huge violent wounds. And while I [...]
May 16, 2012
Consider this a warning to all ya attachment parents, I was the woman on the cover of Time, in her skinny jeans, pert breast popping out of her tank top, future linebacker nursing on that pert breast… okay, I was never nearly as cute, but I nursed one kid until she was two and hiding [...]
March 6, 2012
In Chardon, Ohio, T.J. Lane killed three classmates and injured two others on Febrary 27, 2012. I am always, and I’m sure I’m not alone, left wondering what provoked a child to take the steps to aquire a weapon and go berserk. A child doesn’t wake up one day, and out of the blue decide [...]
March 1, 2012
Hayley and Miri, besides Femamom-ponderings, work on other projects. Here’s an excerpt from a collection of non-fiction essays, The Year We Ate Half a Cow, by Miss Novogrodsky: I spent the summer before fifth grade with my father. When I waited for him in Georgia, I figured he’d come back. He had to. What would [...]
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