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 [...]
September 17, 2012
Our house is open to our friends. That of course, includes my children’s friends. Up until about today, my daughter’s life has been devoid of much of the girl drama we’ve discussed here at Femamom. I’ve liked to imagine that is because we have been welcoming to our children’s friends. Of course, that’s a ridiculous corollary and [...]
April 25, 2012
I can’t believe I’m disagreeing with Miri, because I don’t think we’ve ever disagreed, but HBO’s Girls, to me, is funny. As in LOL fucking laugh out loud uncomfortable disgustingly funny. Granted, I’m more with the gyno at the end who said “You couldn’t pay me enough to be 24 again.”–Lena Dunham shows the nasty [...]
April 24, 2012
Girls on HBO? Did you watch the show? I did and I was uncomfortable, a sign of good art! I was watching what I thought was a comedy, ha, ha, and then I started watching privileged, college educated young adults, whose parents pay their bills and whose endless unpaid internships keep them busy’ish; young [...]
March 28, 2012
Yesterday Hayley wrote about the mother with the eating disorder who got a book deal to write about her daughter’s chubbiness…Last week Andrea wrote about her mother’s pig fridge magnet and how said pig’s location, top of fridge, out of site, or smack dab in the middle of the fridge, affected her mother’s mood. A dieting mother was not a chipper [...]
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 [...]
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