Having a baby is not for the faint of heart. We women put our physical safety on the line to be pregnant and deliver a baby — even American women, who have access to the most highly educated of medical professionals, the most advanced of medical technologies, and the most gleaming of sterile operating rooms. [...]
Last Monday marked the one-month anniversary of the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, which left twenty very young children and six adult employees of Sandy Hook Elementary School dead. Since that time, we have grieved with parents over the unimaginable loss of their children–both in the soft-focus glow of candles and in a harsher kind of light. [...]
Well, you can’t swing a toothpaste-squeezing Elf-on-the-Shelf (Seriously? Making extra messes in my house is now a holiday tradition? Sigh.) around anywhere nowadays without hitting a politician who has something vehement to say about the rapidly approaching edge of the fiscal cliff, a fearsome collection of tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect soon after the new [...]
Finally, the election is over. After such a contentious and lengthy battle over the direction our country will take for the next four years, we can all calm down, shake hands, and get on with life (is anyone else LOVING Nashville?). Let’s all heave a sigh of relief, right? Oh. Wait, what? We’re not heaving a [...]
Dear Romney/Ryan Campaign, Recently, while appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” vice presidential candidate and Congressman Paul Ryan declined, yet again, to explain the specifics of the Romney/Ryan tax plan. The claim is that Romney/Ryan tax reform will be “revenue neutral,” because the tax cuts they want to make would be balanced by closing presumably unfair [...]
My mother tells me that our family is distantly related, through her father’s side, to Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, brothers famous for collecting and publishing fairytales that Disney later made even more famous. One of their lesser-known stories has been on my mind lately, mainly because I think it’s an excellent metaphor for how social [...]
So, speaking (as I did in my previous post for MomsRising) of meaningless lip service politicians pay to how amazing women, mothers, and wives are, did you hear about the latest foot-in-the-mouth moment on the presidential campaign trail? (At least the particular foot in question was probably wearing a clean sock.) Although I certainly wouldn’t give it the [...]
I was inspired to write this, my first blog post for MomsRising, after witnessing much of the last couple weeks of American Democracy in Action on TV: the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. It actually was rather entertaining—the total lack of objectivity from any pundits, regardless of which “news” channel I watched; the lame jokes [...]
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