If you were in the grips of cabin fever this past winter, you might have wished your crib was more of a castle. There are several local alternatives to moving to Europe and actually buying one. The two artists and one store listed below offer a few different ways to make you fall in love […]
Jennifer Loviglio
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Letting go is a Cool Move
A trip to a museum with children is a microcosm of parenting. You want your kids to have fun while they learn, of course. But you don’t want them running all over the place knocking stuff down while they’re at it. So how to maintain control while still giving them freedom? I can’t help […]
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The XX Files
What does it mean that America is now officially the fattest nation on the planet? For one thing, it means you’re not alone. Do you hate what you see when you step on the scale? Are you careful to never even go near one? Rest assured you’re in the majority — 60 percent of Americans […]
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The XX Files
I’m worried about my husband. His eyes are glazed. His movements shaky. After 11 years as a good partner and provider, he’s fallen into one of the many traps that lie in wait for hardworking men and women. Maybe it’s the pressure of his job. Maybe it’s some kind of premature middle-age meltdown. Maybe it’s […]
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The XX files
Pregnant with my second child. Week 21. Routine ultrasound. The technician squirts goo onto my swelling belly and presses the ultrasound wand against me. I’m mesmerized by the ghostlike baby on the monitor. Gray pearls strung in a gentle curve form the spine. A blob of black is the bladder. “There’s the…” the technician […]
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The mammary monologues
As a topic, breasts are a handful. But seriously, breasts receive more attention than any other body part. They’ve been sexualized, politicized, exploited, and covered up — everything but ignored. I’m tired of seeing breasts presented in pop culture as sex objects all the time. For those of us who live with them […]
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The XX files
I sauntered into the plastic-surgery palace on East Avenue cocky and self-assured. I was attending the Botox lecture not as a woman desperate to turn back the hands of time, but as a strong believer in inner beauty. I was on a fact-finding mission — why would anyone submit to cosmetic procedures? What kind of […]
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It’s a wonderful lie
Jorge Silva Years ago, when our son was a harmless bundle of blue blankets and diapers, my husband and I decided to go along with the Santa con, mostly out of laziness. We had discussed how annoying the holidays were, how Santa had become the fictitious embodiment of a consumer culture gone mad, how we […]
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The body politic
I paid $50 to think about my vagina for two hours a couple of weeks ago. This is more time than most women spend in their lives thinking about it, according to The Vagina Monologues, so I guess it was money well spent. The evening was like a hilarious graduate seminar run by three […]
