The other night, a friend of mine told me about some teenage girls on Facebook who are touting beer cans in their profile photos. These are underaged kids. Fourteen-year-olds. These girls are friends with her daughter. “Why are their parents letting them put pictures of themselves with beer on the internet?” I said. “I think [...]
December 7, 2011
Over the weekend, when I wasn’t parenting teenagers, I conducted an unofficial poll: What do grown women NOT tell each other? After all, we seem to talk about anything. But talking and truly sharing, are different activities. Things We Don’t Share: 1. True weight. This is a tricky topic. We talk about how to lose weight [...]
December 2, 2011
The Setting: Dining room table. My teenage daughter and her friends convene to discuss cell phones. Three teenage girls. Pony tail, careful hair, messy hair. Braces. Acne. Giggles. Glasses of milk, pile of cookies. Manicured nails. Bitten nails. Happy home lives, unhappy home lives. Each girl has on her person, regardless of manicure or bitten [...]
November 30, 2011
I had a great holiday weekend. Thanksgiving at my brother’s. Lots of kids. Even some kids I hadn’t seen in years. Jake had a sleepover. More cousins on Sunday with the family this time infiltrating my house. But holy heavens, I’m exhausted. My toddler refuses to take a nap and by 4:30 she’s hell on [...]
November 16, 2011
You know I love Tatum O’Neil. You know I worship Bob Forrest from Celebrity Rehab. Now my friends I’m going to confess my love for The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills so that we can talk about this Taylor abuse situation that was unravelled on Monday night’s episode. For those of you not in the [...]
October 21, 2011
My girlfriends and I are going on our annual girls trip. This year for our 40th birthdays: indulgence. We’ve been dreaming of going to Santa Fe just the four of us for years to a spa in the Santa Fe mountains just outside of town. The girls weekend is always pretty low key, food, hot tubs, [...]
October 14, 2011
(Image Source / Corbis) My best friend Liz and I had one fight when we were seniors in high school. I caught her crinkling her nose about something I said. And so I teased her. She didn’t like that. I believe I taunted her a bit. She didn’t like that either. Outside, we screamed at [...]
October 12, 2011
Women are good at compartmentalizing, juggling, balancing and yeah, bringing home the bacon. Well, some women. I have orange sticky notes all over my desk outlining each day otherwise I’d stop somewhere after walking my dog, Orli. Actually, after walking Orli and drinking crazy strong tea with Gail. See, it seems to me that after Gail [...]
October 3, 2011
In the past week, I realized that there are two subjects that are taboo among women. 1. Admitting that you have a hard time making friends. 2. Admitting that you’ve been dumped by a friend. Last week, my story “Why Do Moms Have a Hard Time Making Friends?” ran on the Huffington Post. We were [...]
September 14, 2011
everyone has a story…if we just listen Guest Post by Gail Doktor One of my dear friends took me out for a day of pampering just a few weeks after my youngest daughter died. At the time, I was still shell-shocked and trying to cope with loss. The biggest decision of my day was what color [...]
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December 12, 2011
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