Mom and Pop Culture

I’m done having babies. At least, I think I am. My kids are now nine and six years old respectively, in fourth and first grades, and I am home all…

My husband, Mike, looks at me and says bluntly, “You know this is a mistake.” The cashier hands Mike his credit-card receipt, and my husband signs his name on the…

“You’re out of balance,” the chiropractor tells me after reviewing my x-rays and going over my symptoms. “But I think I can help you.” I look at the motivational poster…

It is just after 5 p.m. on Friday, and I am at my usual post — the spectator’s balcony at my children’s gymnastics classes. Up top, the moms and dads…

rosie blogs just like me she writes in odd verse without punctuation or editing for typos or grammar spewing random thoughts like a hyped-up toddler with multiple personalities or attention…

On paper, government paper, I barely exist. My Social Security statements show the gaping hole in my employment history. I have not brought in a regular salary for almost a…

EXT. SECLUDED ISLAND BEACH — DAY A serene and beautiful island paradise — a long stretch of white, sandy beaches, an aqua sky, rolling waves. A WOMAN, in her mid-thirties,…

Everybody is talking about ABC’s wildly popular, darkly comedic soap opera, “Desperate Housewives”. And while I originally tuned in expecting to despise Hollywood’s skewed depiction of marriage and motherhood in…

Gwyneth Paltrow. Kate Hudson. Reese Witherspoon. Courtney Cox-Arquette. These beautiful, young, successful movie stars have come to represent the Hollywood Elite. Yet, despite high-powered careers in one of the most…

Early in my first pregnancy, I was feeling rather blue. At Week 14, I wrote in my pregnancy journal: I’m supposed to be feeling better — much better. I guess…

Once upon a time, I used to be cool. I wasn’t cool in high school. Back then I studied too hard and was considered a geek. I wasn’t cool in…