With Miri’s post last week about her patchouli-wearing plumber’s advice (i.e., “Don’t share your snake with your neighbors”), my mind immediately started thinking about body parts. Maybe it’s because I’m due to read 50 Shades of Grey so we can hold this book club I’ve been touting. So I better get on some Monday morning [...]
April 11, 2012
Heather@ThatUncomfortable Itch, wrote a piece about her fifteen year old daughter wanting a tattoo for her birthday. She also wrote about the tenaciousness of a fifteen year old and the wily campaigns they can run when there is something they WANT: As fabulous as Cass is, she scares the hell out of me every [...]
April 3, 2012
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 [...]
February 27, 2012
Though women generally cut off friendships so that it’s not so obvious, a new finding has emerged in the world of Facebook. Defriending is trending. According to a new Pew study, via CNet, women–at least 63 percent–are deleting friends. Pew found that 67 percent of women set their profiles so that only their “friends’’ can [...]
February 22, 2012
Guest Post by Jessica Sherman I want to share my recent liberation. I did not shed 20 pounds of flab, wean my young child, start a new career or leave my husband. I gave up our car. Okay, I admit I live in a borough of NYC where a car is not a must have [...]
February 8, 2012
This is the story about my friend being brought to her knees. Amy was invincible and then she wasn’t. She went to bed on a Monday night four years ago and woke the next day, at 7:30 a.m., with a migraine. She’d never had one before and she hasn’t been without one since. One long [...]
February 1, 2012
Things I’ve learned while battling to keep the resolve in resolution: 1. Trail running involves lightly spraining your ankle over and over during a three mile run (real trail runners go for twenty and thirty miles). I run with a group and I don’t want to slow them down. So, I feel as though [...]
January 23, 2012
Don’t you hate it when your therapist doesn’t agree with you? Yesterday in therapy, my shrink asked me about my marriage. “I haven’t heard you talking about him in a while,” she said. “We got into a tiff the other night,” I told her. “I had been sick with cold, then my back went out, [...]
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 [...]
December 19, 2011
My house has a dishwasher full of dishes and the winter coats are in a heap rather than hung up on the listing coat rack from The Dollar Store. There is a film of dust on the coffee table, and blanketing the bookcases and the floors all need a good vacuuming. I’ve spent forty plus years [...]
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April 30, 2012
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