Motherguilt
Blog URL http://www.motherguilt.com
Tags Boy, Girl, Family, Friends, Marriage, Kids, Writing, Media, Working
This Is Not Your Mother's Motherhood
Latest Blog Posts
- Ghosts on Jul 30, 2009
I don’t believe in ghosts because I don’t want to. I hope the dead have better things to do than linger here like permanent spectators, never to be actors again. How impotent to be a ghost — to see the hand reaching out for the sc...
- Radio Silence on Jul 26, 2009
I can’t write about what’s really happening to me right now. Great big elephantine gobs of change are stomping through my life. If gobs can stomp. I think they can on Willie Wonka. I digress. I can’t talk about what’s happenin...
- Romance Time on Jul 22, 2009
My bosses have been gone for two blissful days. By bosses I am not referring to the people who pay me. I am referring to the people who run me: Boy and Girl. They have been at Nana’s and Papa’s house since Monday, eating pancakes and lasa...
- In the Interest of Full Disclosure on Jul 21, 2009
There was a story in the Wall Street Journal today about mommy bloggers who are paid to recommend items on their blogs. Sometimes they’re paid with free stuff, sometimes with real moolah. A lot of these mommies aren’t telling their rea...
- Fortune Tellers on Jul 17, 2009
I’ve been to a fortune teller three times in my life. The first time was on a whim. A girlfriend and I were at some sort of fair in San Antonio and she suggested that we get our cards read. The fortune teller was a little Hispanic woman in a clos...
- Passing on Baltic on Jul 14, 2009
I’m not much of a Monopoly player. I get too attached to the high-dollar properties and usually end up losing all my money before the game is over. Bob, on the other hand, is excellent at it. He usually snags the roachy purple properties near GO...
- My New Tattoo on Jul 11, 2009
Hey homey, I ain’t got no real tattoo on me. Lemme give you the 4-1-1 on dat: 1, Ain’t no gangsta 2. Ain’t no sailor 3. Ain’t no part of the tattooed generation 4. Already gots a buncha funky looking marks on my skin and get...
