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The joy and the heartache of Mother’s Day
*Trigger Warning* It’s Mother’s Day and everyone’s posting pictures on social media feeds of themselves as children with their much-adored moms. It’s a sweet gesture and I hope those moms feel the love and maybe have a giggle at long-ago hairstyles and the behind-the-scenes madness it probably took to get that shot. (As a mother […]
2013: This year is on fire!
January 3, 2013
Happy New Year to all the Tired Feminists out there! I have been looking forward to 2013 for reasons both quantifiable and arbitrary. It’s convenient to pin hopes and set goals with a clean slate and I sometimes savor a blank page. Sometime in the latter half of 2012 I wrestled my way through some […]
We need a little Christmas
December 21, 2012
In the movie Grosse Pointe Blank, there’s a conversation about the Buddhist concept of shakubuku, a philosophical argument designed to get you to challenge everything you have ever “known” to be true. A swift spiritual kick to the head that alters your reality forever. I think I’m a bit like John Cusack’s character here, “That […]
TMF: Holiday Rant
December 17, 2012
Welcome to the final stretch of the holiday season. If you’ve procrastinated your holiday shopping, check out the Feminist Parent’s Gift Guide here. But for those of us who’ve already braved the big-box stores (or who only have big-box stores as an option because everything else closed down in the recession), you’ve no doubt realized […]
A Feminist Parent’s Gift Guide
December 14, 2012
Perhaps it is the natural out-growth of keeping an eagle-eye out for Tired Marketing Fails or it is just the nature of being a feminist parent, but I find shopping for my toddler to be the hardest of my entire holiday gift list. We do our best to give our kids an environment that is […]
The round-up: What’s swirling around the web this week?
December 12, 2012
Elf you: Are people really taking the whole Elf on the Shelf thing this seriously? I thought that whole thing was a marketing scam. Apparently, I’m not alone. And PS: I am way too tired for this shit. When less is more: I’ve been following Grist’s #shiftthegift discussion about doubling-down on less materialism for the […]
Is Black Friday evil?
November 21, 2012
What do you think? Is Black Friday a cultural institution or a sign of the end of days?
The gift of the grandparents
November 19, 2012
Don’t look now but we are actually in the holiday season. Love it. Curse it. Get white-knuckled trying to keep yourself from hiding under a rock… It’s here, my lovelies. Actually, I think the holidays are sort of like a corporate-ninjas — soundlessly moving the dial back a little more each year. If my calculations […]
Yes, Virginia, you do make Christmas special
December 23, 2011
This was originally posted on Christmas Eve 2010 but my sentiment is the same. Please enjoy this classic post: Christmas has never been my favorite time of year. In fact, my favorite holiday is Halloween. Perhaps it’s because I grew up near the poverty line and we struggled so much to just have food on […]
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