February 2011
7 posts
A Mother's Guilt
No doubt your own mother has disappointed you a time or two, and now Mary Tyler Mom has too. Perhaps I’ve overstated my significance to you. All three of you. I committed to publish on Fridays. Last Friday, on vacation in sunny Mexico, I had no intention of writing about working and mothering, being too busy simply mothering and letting someone else cook and utilizing my elbows to...
Confessions of a Latchkey Kid
I am the product of a working mother. Yes, it’s true. I was seven when my Mom started working and I wore a gold key on a red and yellow lanyard, tucked inside my parochial school uniform. I couldn’t actually unlock the door, so a neighbor kid would open it and let me in. My brother, two years older, went to a different school and got home an hour or so after I did. Today this...
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Oh, Gwyneth, My Gwyneth.
Last week I wrote about the cruelty of mothering and working, the judgment that goes on, the thanklessness of it all. This week? Sorry, but I’ve got to judge. I can’t stop myself. Huff Post did a piece on Gwyneth Paltrow a few days ago, I can’t even remember what it was about, but there was a link to her Goop, her weekly online “newsletter” about...
