All systems are go for the next Sin City Siren Book Club, meeting Saturday, Aug. 13 at 1 pm! After a little location dilemna, we are good to go at locally owned Sunrise Coffee, 3130 E. Sunset Road, Suite A. The management is welcoming us with arms wide open! Hurray! Hopefully, Sunrise Coffee will be […]
July 31, 2011
Looking at the calendar, we have a week until the next Sin City Siren Book Club where we’ll discuss Tina Fey’s book Bossypants. However, I’m on the mend following some out-patient surgery I had on Friday. (Getting better slowly but surely.) So I’m postponing book club by a week. Let’s get together Saturday, Aug. 13 […]
July 28, 2011
Hope you are all going to have a wonderful weekend! I am going to be away from my computer for a few days, attending to a personal matter. But never fear, I’ll be back at it in no time! In the mean time, why not curl up with a funny book, like the next pick […]
July 22, 2011
Just in case you didn’t know, I have another blog called The Sin City Siren. Here’s what you may have missed in recent posts: The Sin City Siren Book Club is back! Check out the details on our next selection (Hint: You can’t see Russia from her house.) and when we’ll be meeting. On dismantling […]
February 11, 2011
This is the last post in the Exploring Feminist Motherhood series and was inspired by reading Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself by Amy Richards. This was the second selection of the Sin City Siren Book Club. Here’s a question for the stay-at-home parents out there: If you made as much money (or […]
February 10, 2011
Even though I’ve already written about childbirth in this Exploring Feminist Motherhood series, there is one aspect I haven’t talked about yet — being the survivor of sexual violence. This is an aspect of my childbirth experience that even I don’t think I’ve fully processed, some 8 months later. But it is something that came […]
February 8, 2011
Like all the posts in the Exploring Feminist Motherhood series (Part 1; Part 2: The Childbirth Minefield, Part 3: Tick Tock), this was inspired by reading Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself by Amy Richards. This was the second selection of the Sin City Siren Book Club. I am a feminist. I am […]
February 6, 2011
Like all the posts in the Exploring Feminist Motherhood series (Part 1; Part 2: The Childbirth Minefield), this was inspired by reading Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself by Amy Richards. This was the second selection of the Sin City Siren Book Club. I really hate the phrase “biological clock.” It brings to […]
February 4, 2011
Like all the posts in the Exploring Feminist Motherhood series (Part 1, Part 3: Tick Tock), this was inspired by reading Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself by Amy Richards. This was the second selection of the Sin City Siren Book Club. On the subject of childbirth, I’ll admit I felt relieved when […]
February 2, 2011
The Sin City Siren Book Club met on Saturday to discuss Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself by Amy Richards. Although we had a light but enthusiastic turnout (it was hard to compete with the state budget hearing), it was really great to discuss the book and the tangents it led to — […]
August 11, 2011
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