July 2011

How To Talk About Succeeding In Blogging (Without Really Crying)

July 29, 2011

Here’s something that you might not know about me: I’m a professional blogger. A professional mom-blogger. Which is to say, I earn a living – a good one – from the business that I’ve established around this blog that deals primarily in discussions related to motherhood and parenting and – I should warn you, this will be the first of many words that some consider unladylike – the brand that is associated with this blog. Keep reading…

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A Certificate Of Presence: On Why I’m Obsessed With Taking Photographs, And Happier For It

July 29, 2011

There’s a post at Babble this week by a mom who regrets having been too obsessed with photographing every moment of her family’s life. She forced herself to put the camera down, and, she says, is happier for it. “While I still desperately want my boys to be able to look through photo albums of [...]

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Looking At The Skies

July 27, 2011

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. – Gustave Flaubert (Or an aching neck, but whatever. His point is still well-taken.)

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Instagrammatica

July 26, 2011

I take a lot of photos of my kids. A lot of photos of my kids. More than I know what to do with. More than I can fit on my blog or in a Twitter stream or on my Facebook page or even in a good old fashioned hold-in-your-hands photo album. My life is, [...]

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Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby

July 25, 2011

I think that it’s important that you all know that when I shot this video, the plumber was just up the stairs finishing the installation of our new bathtub. That I was not remotely inhibited by this tells you something about my shame threshold. (Spoiler: my shame threshold is very high.) Depending on your shame [...]

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What’s In YOUR Bag?

July 23, 2011

For a long time, I used a diaper bag for everything. It was a pretty cool diaper bag, one that cost way too much money – like, designer-handbag-too-much-money – and I figured, if I spent half a mortgage payment on one bag, I’d damn well better use it. So I did. I used it for [...]

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Where The Wild Things Are

July 22, 2011

So we’re headed out to the backwoods again, because we love peace and quiet and mosquitoes and space for our feral offspring to run around just that much. Any last minute advice on how to kill bears, catch fish with one’s hands, get the conch away from the tyrannical preschooler, etc, etc, would be much [...]

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A Mompreneur By Any Other Name

July 21, 2011

I’m generally not a fan of mashed up hybrid neologisms; you know, those words that are created out of two unrelated words, like ‘freegan’ and ‘Brangelina.’ But in some cases, they can be useful – fun, even – inasmuch as they allow us to describe something for which there hasn’t previously been a proper name. [...]

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Extreme Makeover: Blog Edition

July 21, 2011

So, remember how I got new glasses, and then freaked out a little bit, because, hell, they totally changed the look of my face? I’m over that now. I love my glasses. So much, I love them. I can barely remember what I looked like with my other glasses. These glasses are me. The transition [...]

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Music To Change The World By

July 20, 2011

This is some sample copy to appear with the video.

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