OK, so my only claim to music fame is that I’m well versed because I had boyfriends who were in to different music. So, I’ve been to a lot of different concerts when dating.
I went to Madonna when I was pregnant cause, like, that’s who I love. My fetus danced the whole freaking time and still loves it to this day.
But, alas, I’m not that hip.
Still know people who are though.
Via Julie Pippert on Twitter I found out about Pandora – a music genome project which will create a custom radio station for you based on you …read more

You know what I find fascinating?
The religious conservatives, by which I mean the specific people in my life, who have always been the biggest influences on my own Internal Mommy Wars are in full, unequivocal support of Sarah Palin and have no doubts that can be both an effective mother and vice president.
Then why do you doubt that I can be both a great mom and fulfill my professional ambitions using the gifts and the calling God gave me? I wondered, as I lay sobbing during one yoga practice last week. If there is some distinction between …read more

The Battle Ground of Feminism is the Home.
Because I don’t necessarily want to have that battle in my home today, I’ll stick with citing examples from FEMININE MISTAKE, THE: ARE WE GIVING UP TOO MUCH?, by Leslie Bennetts.
“This opt-out thing is about false choices,” says sociologist Barbara Risman. “If you’ve been raised thinking you can do everything, and your husband works eighty hours a week, and you work eighty hours a week, and he’s not willing to budge an inch, and you never see your chilren, so you opt-out – that’s not really opting out; that’s being pushed …read more

I find very few flaws in the logic of Leslie Bennetts in her book FEMININE MISTAKE, THE: ARE WE GIVING UP TOO MUCH?
Her logic is such that I find myself saying, She’s right. Why did I make such a self-defeating choice to quit my fulltime professional newspaper job?

Until the chapter where she reminds me why, exactly, I did just that as she advises women that Yes, working fulltime with little babies is a hell on earth where everyone loses – but take the “long view,” it’s only for 15 YEARS!

15 YEARS! Is that all?

Seriously, I lasted less than one year …read more

I’ve not yet read the new feminist manifesto, The Feminine Mistake by Leslie Bennetts, citing the difficult to refute reasons why women shouldn’t commit to a life as a stay-at-home mom (or apparently any variation therein including part-time or work-from-home mom). My Australian Feminist Mommy counter-part Blue Milk did such an in-depth review of this book,  I would hate for you to miss it.Here are some excerpts from Blue Milk’s review of The Feminine Mistake“The Feminine Mistake has little to say about how our community and economy could be organised differently to focus less on a traditional male life-course, and much to say about how women can best ensure their security …read more