In these days of cell phones that will take photos and videos, are your parenting moves in public being recorded.  If someone objects to something you say to your child, or a method of discipline, will they record it, put it on You Tube, or even send it to the police.
This happened to a Mom in Alabama, who is in jail for dragging her child on a leash.  Granted what and how she was doing it is very questionable, if the video hasn’t been “doctored.”  But if she only had her child on a leash would she have been reported …read more

I’m going to be talking about the movie, “Precious” in this post. I want to warn you ahead of time, because I don’t want to spoil anyone. I don’t know major plot points. I only know about what is shown in the trailer. If you don’t want any movie clues at all, then please stop reading now. Come on back tomorrow and I will be talking about something absolutely un-spoilery.
I am a fan of Mariah Carey. It seems to me that people either love Maiah Carey or they hate her. I think she’s talented, beautiful, an individual.
I read that she’s …read more

Has anyone seen Two Girls One Finger?

I can’t help but reflect that I used to be so cool and sophisticated when I was a teen/young adult.

Two Girls One Finger is apparently so disgusting that the new thing is to get people, mostly girls, to watch it on video so they can tape their response.

I saw one girl actually vomit.

From what the reactions say I think they eat vomit and craps in each others’ mouths. I’m thinking it’s some kind of really F’d up porn or super extreme truth or dare. I could be wrong, but that’s the impression I got.

I’m …read more

This is an apt description of the body image issues women face. I worry about my daughter, but I also know the devastating effect this type of media onslaught has on the grown women I know. We reduce women to things. Are you a pretty thing or an ugly thing?
Guess what? We’re not things. We’re people. We think, we feel, we nurture the young and care for the sick. We are women and to allow the entire marketing industry to turn us into things has to stop somehow. Why do you think men think it’s okay to use us up? …read more

Let’s talk about where we are in this country when it comes to talent and culture, shall we?
Movies created on cell phones and produced on You Tube? Music created from software packages? Sports figures who take steroids so they can break a legendary player’s home run record? Architecture that is less than 30 years old being blown up and replaced?
The answer? In my mind, the new talent in our society will come from computer programmers because everything else has gone to hell in a hand-basket.
I don’t watch American Idol…never have. But when I heard everyone yammering …read more

I know, way to kill the whole New Year’s Eve party buzz, right?
New York Times style writer Bog Morris has perfectly captured exactly how I feel about the world right now.
If it isn’t 2007 in your neck of the world at the moment, do check out Morris’ hilarious list of what OTHER people might start thinking about in the new year.

I would add…celebrities think about shopping for some Hanes…and tv chefs get some manners and stop chewing with your mouth full on camera…it’s not appetizing looking, it’s gross.
p.s. Mr. Morris’ thoughts about blogging are just …read more