Tasty lead tinsel and blood in the snow; Loviglio’s happy childhood holidays trump her children’s
Jennifer Loviglio
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Sexual harassment
The XX Files My first creep I grew up knowing this: it’s my body and no one has the right to say or do anything that makes me feel uncomfortable. My mother tried to build a protective wall around me by hammering in this message repeatedly. By the time I was 14 and started waitressing, […]
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Consumer confidence
A few weeks ago my son, now 13, asked me to take him to the mall. “We never go to the mall,” he said with the wail of the truly deprived. Now, he knows what I think of malls. He knows, further, that I do not even look at them when we drive by on […]
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Deep impact
Be not afraid: this fall, the “in” colors are rich and bold Though you might be skeptical that Stephen Colbert is colorblind, you’d better believe I’m colorphobic. The comedian’s O’Reilly-clone persona claims that when he looks at people he doesn’t see the color of their skin. My fear of color has nothing to do with […]
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Gee willikers
The XX Files I like the way CNN.com put it. The headline read: “Southern women breaking up with Bush.” After 9/11, Southern women, like much of the country at the time, had a childish crush on someone who seemed like a hero. We were scared. President Bush seemed strong. He’d help us rise from the […]
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Old mom and the sea
When I hit my early 40’s, I lost my nerve. Suddenly, breaking into Rochester’s blocked-off tunnels seemed dangerous, skitching seemed a sure way to crack open my skull, and interviewing unsavory characters for articles no longer appealed. Even sailing, which I’ve done on and off since I was a teenager but have never mastered, has […]
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Apocalypse when?
Pity the poor secular humanist. Guided not by a deity or helpful tome, but rather by her beleaguered inner compass, she must weigh every decision based merely on the vague values of secular humanism: compassion and responsibility for herself and her community. In an age of fundamentalism, secular humanism is the Rodney Dangerfield of American […]
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They will come
It was at a Little League game that I had a consciousness-raising
experience. One of the dads, a developer, told me his adult son was moving back
to Rochester to work with him. Instead
of being delighted, he was troubled. The economy here is bad and getting worse,
he said. Jobs and people are fleeing the state. Bringing his son here might be,
my friend said, “my biggest mistake ever.”
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Studies show
It nearly drove me over the edge, but a new study proves I was right. Attachment parenting is, in fact, good for babies. For the uninitiated, attachment parenting is an approach to infant care developed by a sadist who, playing on new-mothers’ fears, prescribed never putting the baby down, not even to take a dump. […]
