Month: April 2013

How The WSJ Took A Giant Dump On Women

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{Image via The Wall Street Journal.} {I know, right?} It’s weird, I recently wrote a piece about cursing and motherhood and yet, here I am sitting down to write THIS piece and all I can think of are expletives and whatever the opposite of a euphemism is. Oh, Wall Street Journal, SHAME ON YOU. This morning the Wall Street Journal… Read more →

This Is Why Our Collective Body Image Is In The Shitter.

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Kelsey is a dancer for the OKC Thunder Girls with an enviable physique. But this week, she’s not getting press for her moves between quarters. Rather, she’s the subject of ridicule by the CBS Houston (who alleges that they’re simply reporting the ‘word on the streets of OKC’) for being too chunky to cheer. Or is she. Claire Crawford, the… Read more →

Casual Coachella-Day (Or, How I Spent My Spring Vacation.) (What?)

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We don’t take many vacations around these parts. With both of us being self-employed, it’s hard for us to find the time to take off of work to take those much needed life-breaks. So most of the time, we just don’t. I travel for work, and we’ll do quick trips to visit our sisters on the weekends, but that’s it.… Read more →

Look For The Helpers

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{we rearranged again} When I was nine years old, I remember being in the car with my Dad one evening, around twilight. We were turning off of our cul-de-sac, probably heading out to pick up Italian Food, and in a few months, the first Iraq war would break out. We’d been learning about US history in school and my idea… Read more →

“Moms Who Drink And Swear”: Can We Talk About This Modern Mom As Frat Boy Image?

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This month, Nicole Knepper released her hilarious book “Moms Who Drink And Swear” based on her blog of the same name. It’s insanely funny, which isn’t surprising if you’ve read Nicole before. But it also got me self-reflecting a bit. As I looked at her book sitting a top a pile on my nightstand of other recent releases in its… Read more →

“What Kind Of Hippie Am I? I’m A Business Hippie.”

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Several years and a whole other life ago I was working on the Windows “I’m A PC” campaign when I stumbled across these photos of Bill Gates posing for Tiger Beat Magazine circa 1983 or so. They’ve basically stuck in my mind as “the greatest thing ever” ever since… {Floppy Disks Are Sexy.} Like, seriously who directed this photo shoot,… Read more →

Casual Fridays: Blogging Life Is Hard And I’m Freaking Exhausted.

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{Molly Ringwald photographed by Andy Warhol, Circo 1985… …and I’m pretty sure that’s The Bangles lead singer Suzanna Hoffs on the left.} This week has done me in good. I’m wearing a dark blue sweatshirt and my favorite lounge pants that Scott gave me for Christmas the year we got married, but I can’t take a picture for you right… Read more →