My daughter and I are having one of those moments. I’m holding her close as we stare into each other’s eyes with that special mama-daughter love. Until N breaks eye contact and furrows her brow at my chin. My daughter reaches out her hand: Mama, fall down? Me: No. It’s not booboo, sweetie. It’s a [...]
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Abercrombie & Fitch has a push-up bikini in it’s kid’s line.* The sizing begins with girls as young as eight years old. Most adults have been rightly horrified. Because Abercrombie & Fitch is wrong for creating this bathing suit and marketing strategy. And who are these parents buying tiny padded bathing suits for their eight [...]
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A kid with whom I went to high school is reporting from Egypt for CNN. Click here if you can’t see the video of him. And now back to my mundane life on the Internet: 1) I bragged at Richmondmom.com about N being potty trained. And she has had at least two accidents a day [...]
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I’m over at Richmondmom.com giving Holiday Tips On How Not To End Up In Someone’s Blog because I’m nice like that. Also, there are only forty Blogger Body Calendars left! Thank you for all your support! I got mine in the mail last week and thought Ms. November was purty durn cute. See what it [...]
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When I was eleven years old, I asked my mom if I could start shaving my legs. I don’t know why. I just knew hair was bad. It was the same year as the unibrow incident. Hair is unwanted on women. No underarm hair. No leg hair. No arm hair. No stomach hair. And sometimes [...]
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I can’t write about my eating disorder. I thought I could. I have been in recovery since 2001. I eat pizza and cake and three meals a day plus snacks. I don’t hate how I look. I don’t wish I was thinner. I like my weight and have stayed within five pound for the past [...]
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My sister, Katie (usually known on this blog as Aunt K, the Toddler Whisperer), is visiting and one of our many many important discussions turns to bras. And how much ours suck. Me: We should get measured and go bra shopping tonight. Katie: I’ve never been measured before. But my favorite strapless bra is from [...]
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Last week my son is running around my backyard naked. COMPLETELY nude-y-pants. He suddenly jumps in to our plastic red wagon and says: I want to go on a WALK. He doesn’t even know that we, as human beings, don’t do a lot of naked walks. And I wonder: When do we become conscious of [...]
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