>You can’t watch television, listen to the radio, surf the Internet, or read a magazine for any length of time without encountering something inspired by love. Our culture is obsessed with it. More specifically, our culture is obsessed with new love. Popular singers rhapsodize about infatuation. Magazine ads depict bedheaded women with glazed, lustful eyes. […]
February 14, 2011
I once read a brilliant blog post (which I can’t find now, arrrrgh) written by a man who was thinking back on a conversation he’d had with his stepdad when he was 17. Their topic of discussion is unimportant- What mattered was that at 17, he’d thought his stepdad was full of it, and didn’t […]
February 9, 2011
>This column originally appeared in the Nashville Scene. Requiem for a Video Store In retrospect, I should have known when Movie Gallery closed that it was the beginning of the end. For better or worse, the Movie Gallery on Highway 70 was one of Bellevue’s main social hubs. On weekend nights, you’d find it filled […]
February 4, 2011
>Over the weekend, I noticed an unusual amount of traffic on my site. I couldn’t tell exactly what was prompting it, but I did notice a whole bunch of searches for “Fashionable Single Girls.” Weird. A tiny bit detective work led me to an ‘etiquette’ message board, where someone had pasted a post called “An […]
January 31, 2011
>”Mommy, sometimes Mary is really nice and sometimes she’s a bully,” Punky said thoughtfully last night as I was getting the kids ready for bed. “How is she a bully?” I asked. “Well, I tried to play with her and some of the other girls on the playground,” Punky said, “but she said I couldn’t […]
January 28, 2011
>We took the littles to see Shrek: The Musical last night (which, incidentally, was FABULOUS and I highly, highly recommend it). Hubs had dropped the kids and me off at the door before the show, but when it was over, I thought it would be easier for us all to walk with him back to […]
January 26, 2011
A few days ago, I wrote a post on The Stir about some of the more ridiculous breastfeeding t-shirts I’ve seen on the market. From a woman’s t-shirt bearing the phrase “Nipple Lickin’ Good” to a ball cap for dads that says “I play with my baby’s food,” I questioned whether some of the pro-breastfeeding […]
January 24, 2011
