It’s hard to be a liquored-up fornicator, but someone has to do it. In an era when conservative policymakers promote abstinence and substance abuse programs that are ineffectual at best and dangerous at worst, someone has to stand up for the truth. Of course, suggesting we need to return to a more honest, tolerant approach […]
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Like a missionary in a land of heathens, my friend is trying to save the souls of my children. To save them, specifically, from me. She thinks I’m not letting them do enough “normal” kid stuff. When the family saw a silent film at the Dryden Theatre despite the kids’ pleas to see SpongeBob SquarePants, […]
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Sign language has always been a means to an end for me. The first time I learned it I was 10, and I used it to advance my goal of total domination of my little brother. One March morning I woke up with laryngitis. At the time I had no idea it would last a […]
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I’m way above the fray up here in this SUV. I’m head and shoulders above you and your car and I like the view. You can’t mess with me up here. You can’t get at my children. What, kids? You felt a bump? That was probably some little car down there, or maybe a pedestrian. […]
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Since scientists discovered extra sleep results in weight loss, I’ve been going to bed earlier and staying there longer, pillow over my head, trying to get a bit more shut-eye. What this really means is that instead of sleeping I’m spending hours in bed wide awake, thinking. I think about how odd it is that […]
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I grew up in a list family. My mother wrote her numbered lists carefully on a journalist’s pad, a True smoldering in the ashtray. My father scribbled his lists everywhere — on napkins, torn legal paper, oversized graph pads. No task was too large or too small. He’d write: “Wake up. Meditate. Eat breakfast. Read […]
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Security Moms? They’ve got to be kidding. What mother isn’t a Security Mom? Long before Bush and Kerry started targeting this “demographic,” trying to prove who is better suited to protect our children, we mothers were already out here on security detail for our families. Pundits claim Security Moms — a group, they say, of […]
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You fit together like a hand in a glove. Corny, but you and your husband have been together so long the expression seems appropriate. Sweet. He curves around you, your limbs entwine. Hand in glove. You start to make your moves. C’mon baby, it’s time to exchange bodily fluids. He pulls away. “Not tonight,” he […]
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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 […]
