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Mom and Pop Culture

Retired Columns

From “Life in the Sandwich” to “Special Needs Mama” to “Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance”—they’re all here for you to explore.

Done

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…

Mom and Pop Culture | January 2006 | By Lizbeth Finn-Arnold


Adopting Elvis

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…

Mom and Pop Culture | November 2005 | By Lizbeth Finn-Arnold


Unbalanced, Part II

“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…

Mom and Pop Culture | September 2005 | By Lizbeth Finn-Arnold


Unbalanced, Part 1

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…

Mom and Pop Culture | July 2005 | By Lizbeth Finn-Arnold


why we blog

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…

Mom and Pop Culture | May 2005 | By Lizbeth Finn-Arnold


Operating in the Negative

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…

Mom and Pop Culture | March 2005 | By Lizbeth Finn-Arnold


No Mother is an Island

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,…

Mom and Pop Culture | January 2005 | By Lizbeth Finn-Arnold


Confessions of a Desperate Housewife

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…

Mom and Pop Culture | December 2004 | By Lizbeth Finn-Arnold


Cover Moms

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…

Mom and Pop Culture | October 2004 | By Lizbeth Finn-Arnold


Longing to Glow

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…

Mom and Pop Culture | August 2004 | By Lizbeth Finn-Arnold


Staying Cool

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…

Mom and Pop Culture | June 2004 | By Lizbeth Finn-Arnold


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