My Sister-In-Law, Maegan (along with a group of fine fashion bloggers) recently lent her image to the fall catalogue of a popular handbag company. But what appeared in the catalogue wasn’t quite what she expected…I got all worked up and wrote about it over on Babble — I’m going to cut to the chase: After an email exchange in which… Read more →
Category: The Not-So-Trivial
Level One: Complete
So I was too sweaty and anxious trying to get this tiny little queen of procrastinating dressed and in the car to get an actual picture of her heading off to school (she needed to shut every door in the house and arrange her favorite toys on the couch to wait for her to return before we could go) but… Read more →
Being Depressed While Pregnant Sucks; Getting Your Own Babble Voices Column Doesn’t
Long weekends are weird, right? It feels like Monday, but it’s Tuesday, which is disorienting, but closer to Friday, so I think we’re all probably good with that. Anyway. When I was pregnant with Delilah I suffered from Antepartum Depression. That was fun, and then when she was born I got hit with Postpartum Anxiety, sort of like a one-two… Read more →
A Life Well Lived
I’ve only officially been a Shanahan for about five years, but I was eighteen when Grandpa Dick and the beautiful Masumi first welcomed me in to their home, and their family. Scott’s Grandfather led an incredible life, and has left behind the kind of indelible legacy that will live on in our family for generations to come. He passed away… Read more →
I Hate Hope
It was a mantra of mine for a while. After Delilah was born, I was depressed for a really long time. Much, much longer than I really realized or was willing to admit. Mental illness is a funky chicken like that — it’s so organic in the way it twists your mind you think your thoughts are perfectly normal. That’s… Read more →
Legacy
We’ll tell all we know of suspect, but I’ll try not to use his name much. History should remember those who died, not their killer. @AC360 — Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) July 21, 2012 By now, we’ve all had a moment to absorb what happened in the wee hours of yesterday in Aurora, Colorado. I know I have. I’ve read obsessively,… Read more →
Boy Scouts, You Are Wrong.
{via} On Tuesday, the LA Times Reported: HOUSTON — The Boy Scouts of America on Tuesday reaffirmed the organization’s policy of excluding gays, despite recent protest campaigns by members, including some of the group’s board. The announcement came after a confidential two-year review by an 11-member special committee formed by Scout leaders in 2010, a spokesman said. I’m a little… Read more →
Real Ultimate Power
I just flew in from Milwaukee and boy are my arms tired. The past few days have been some of the most exhilarating and freeing of my life and I can’t believe I didn’t think that motorcycling would be for me. Starting Sunday night when I learned how to pick up an 800 lb touring bike (not like, over my… Read more →
How Do You Know If You’re Raising An Asshole?
{My sweet baby on her first day of pre-school-camp.} Spirited. Spunky. Scrappy. Salty. Her little personality has emerged GUNS BLAZING and if anybody had any questions about whether or not Miss Delilah George’s disposition would be as sweet as her face…IT’S NOT. Don’t get me wrong, the girl is a snuggle bug, she’s sanguine as she wants to be ~… Read more →
C’mon Feminists, Please Don’t Make Me Renounce Feminism AGAIN.
{My girl, on top of the world.} I was nineteen the first time I decided that feminism was a load of crap. I was a co-president of NYU’s Women in Film association, had nearly completed my minor in Women’s Studies, was one of only nine women in my class at Tisch’s prestigious Kanbar Institute for Film and TV, and I… Read more →