Do you remember the first time a boy noticed your breasts? I was probably about 10. Playing basketball with a boy from up the street. He turned to me and stared at my shirt. “Shouldn’t you put on a bra or something?” he said. I looked down at the budding nothings and chalked it up [...]
January 13, 2012
Shannon Drury of The Radical Housewife started a revolution. She wrote about the taboo of mental health – the skeleton in the feminist closet. For all the topics we tackle in our writing, for all the stones we turn, we leave our mental health struggles in the closet and under the rock. Why must we be [...]
July 13, 2011
How to be yourself? Truly and really and whole? Three million people have googled that very question. One way is to tell our children why we are suddenly irritated, tired, snappy and sitting in a corner with a bag of Oreos weeping. About nothing and everything. I had no choice. I had never ever been [...]
July 12, 2011
The other day, my husband said: “Uh, what’s this email that I’m getting about your menstural cycle? You’re ovulating right now, I take it?” After a particularly bad month–cramps, fiery temper, deciding that I was going to move to a hotel permanently–I signed Andy up for a online newsletter, The Daily Cramp , that informed [...]
July 11, 2011
I start each summer with a couple of groan-inducing “cultural outings” in mind, and this year I was bent on seeing a particular exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I was told it would be crowded and to get there early, so on the appointed day I was all business: Get up! [...]
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