The anthology My Baby Rides the Short Bus can be ordered now at Amazon. For more information, see my earlier post.
Posts Tagged as ‘Mothers’
September 18, 2009
Dept. of Parenting Inc.
A Daddy on the Ball
Steve Monforto, a Phillies fan who’d been trying his entire life to catch a baseball in the stands, finally managed to snag one during Tuesday night’s game against the Washington Nationals. Delirious with joy, he handed the treasure to his 3-year-old daughter Cecilia, who promptly threw it towards the field. Did [...]
June 14, 2009
Bad Mothers Come Out
Hello Hooray I’m ready!
That’s a line from an old song by Meg Christian, one of the standard bearers of “wimmins music” in the early 70’s, in celebration of lesbians coming out everywhere. I invoke it now to hail the coming out of the bad mother, which–keeping fingers crossed–might at long last be happening .
I base [...]
June 13, 2009
Another Infant Dies of Forgetfulness
While I was away from my computer last week, another California father forgot his infant was in the back seat of the car and boarded the train for work, leaving the baby to die of suffocation. I tore the story out of the newspaper planning to blog about it.
When I looked at my stats this [...]
May 31, 2009
Jon and Kate Plus 8
If I’d asked a random sampling of people as recently as a month ago if they’d ever watched Jon & Kate Plus 8, they’d stare at me blankly – but that was BT, Before Tabloids. BT, Jon & Kate Plus 8 was a half-hour weekly reality show on TLC that followed the lives of the [...]
May 19, 2009
Jewish Mothers
Check it out: A photo of my sister Linda holding a picture of our great-grandmother from many years ago. It’s part of a Jewish Women’s Archives project.
May 10, 2009
Thoughts on Mothers Day
I’ve been a mother all my adult life. I’ve been a feminist almost as long. I’ve always felt conflicted about Mothers Day. This doesn’t seem to be true of most feminists anymore, if it ever was; it’s my nature to find conflict under every chair and bed – still, I don’t see how [...]
June 28, 2008
On Mothers as Characters
The Mother as Writer…AND as Character
Every time I create a character in my fiction who’s a mother, I run into the same problem: even when the children have nothing to do with the story, editors and agents insist I give them more story time. Thus, I have to create more characters and wrestle with a [...]
April 21, 2008
Portrait of My Mother
Below is Chapter 5 of my memoir, which can be found on my other blog, Writing Out Loud. I think it stands alone as a portrait of my mother.
A Smart, Funny, Joyful Lady.
That’s the inscription on my mother’s tombstone. Most traditional-minded people would probably find it odd: no Loving Mother or Devoted Wife or even [...]
