Catherine – Page 5 – Her Bad Mother

Home Page, Like A Girl

And Why Feminism Matters For Boys, Too My seven year old son, Jasper, loves My Little Pony. A lot. He watches the show; he reads the books; he collects the mini-figures. He can tell you...

5 Mar

These Girls Want You To Vote For Hillary

Like A Girl, Moving Images, Uncategorized

Because, they say, it would be an inspiration to all girlkind. And because years and years and years of pretty much only men as world leaders and “seriously, again, 5 billion, like, old guys?”...

3 Mar

A Change Is As Good As A Rest

Blogging, Home Page

That's what they say, anyway. If it's true, then I should be doubly good on the re-energizing front, given that I've both taken a good long rest from blogging and changed up my website. I've...

10 Feb

Be Glad, And Young

you shall above all things be glad and young For if you're young, whatever life you wear It will become you;and if you are glad whatever's living will yourself become. -- e. e. cummings...

18 Jan

When Your Bathroom Tries To Kill You

I was going to start off the new year with a renewed commitment to writing - more frequent writing, more quality writing. I was going to write about that renewed commitment to writing and...

24 Dec

On Santa, and Other Truths

Emilia, age ten and some days, telling Mr. and Mrs. Claus all about that camera she wants and also are they SURE that her little brother isn't on their naughty list? *** Every year, I write...

1 Dec

Don’t Call Her A Tomboy

The whole conversation started because I don’t like the word “tomboy.” “Mommy, case ” my daughter Emilia said to me one day a few months ago, erectile “I think that I’m a tomboy.” “What makes...

21 Nov

The Unbearable Lightness of Friendship

Dear Beatrix, Do you know I'm your bestest bestest friend? I hope we can have another play date or even have a sleepover. I hope we have fun at school today. Should we have a sleepover...

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30 Sep

The Postmodernist At The End Of This Book