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Supa’s Activist Corner: MomsRising

OK.
Last bit of motherly righteousness: momsrising.org. Sign a petition and let’s get this party started.
(Phew. Now I’m all mommed out. Time for reality television, or something.)

Mother’s lib (or, Everyone Works)

Just one more tidbit before I go: That whole “Mommy Wars” thing? Where the “working moms” hate the “stay-at-home” moms and vice versa? I knew that was a social construct, a media stand-by for slow news days and attention-grabbing headlines. But the point was brought home recently that something around 70% of mothers do some […]

Seriously, this book is changing my life

More thoughts on Perfect Madness presented in stream-of-consciousness form, because there are so many thoughts whirling around and because my own mother liked the last entry I wrote on it.
Judith Warner is doing an excellent job not just of pinning down the anxiety of motherhood today, the all-encompassing terror of being responsible for a new […]

More theme changing!

I change them as often as I change my socks, it’s been said.

Was talking with Neil and realized that, cool as the previous theme was, it was difficult for some people to use. So here we are at drunkey love. Note how you can toggle the insanely ass-long lists of archives and other things with […]

Chronic underachiever

OK. I know it’s a library book. But I’ve already dog-eared seven crucial pages in Perfect Madness and I’m only on chapter two.
I have so much to say about it already but it’s very late and I’m very tired because, well, you know. My toddler woke me up at 6:45 a.m. and like a good […]

Join a Supa Book Club!

Hi, Supa Friends:
I was talking to my pal Rachael, a former Baltimore blogger, this evening, and she had a very good idea: a little book club!
Whattya say? JG? HVM? TBGR? D? MV? JXKA? Anybody whose initials I haven’t guessed or made up?
Totally cas’, possibly (probably?) at my house, once a month, weekend or weeknight, food […]

Be satisfied. Be a simple kind of girl.

OK. I really do want to move out of here. But there are times when I love this little white-trash neighborhood so much.
I mean, aside from the gunshots and the sirens and the “Buddy, spare a dime?” and the 40-year-old spandex-wearing domestic-disturbance-causing person knocking on our door, bloodied, asking to use the phone.
I mean, ASIDE […]

Over my dead body

I sense change a-comin’, and yo, I am resistant.

JELLY SHOES.
My LORD, you guys. Debbie makes a good point about the bubble skirts and the gauchos (my take: hate and hate), but you guys? JELLY SHOES. And LEGGINGS. Hello, 1986, nice to see you again!
PSYCH! *fakes you out, runs hand through hair*
Soon even my trusty dark […]

On Balance

I’ve been reading Mommy Wars: Stay-at-home Moms and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families. It’s fascinating. And I am always starved for stories of other women who work outside the home, how they do it, how they feel about it.
A small passage at the end of the essay by Jane […]

Y’all missed out

… If you didn’t make it to the Towson Library’s book sale this weekend. We got a stack of books 15 inches high for two-fitty. Two dolla! Fitty cent! Dozen books!
Word to your moms: Portions of these quality remainders are headed for The Book Thing, or so we overhear. And at ten minutes to close […]

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