Do you sing to your kids before they go to sleep at night? If so, what? I'm looking for new tunes ( Read more... )

for China ( Read more... )

My kids have apparently been stricken deaf today. That was a cranky complaint, not an actual statement ( Read more... )

In other news, there's a disturbing article in the NY Times today about the battles between parents and sitters over children's diets. I'm always interested in new dispatches from the modern motherhood discourse, and this one does not disappoint. First, there's the portrayal of working mothers as tweaked out about sugar, organic food, etc, while ( Read more... )

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Okay, so I didn't even realize the VMAs were on this week, but then I started seeing pictures and shit all over the Interweb, so then I caught on.

And I was checking Pop Sugar, my favorite place for little capsules of gossip, and they have a bunch of YouTube videos up of performances. Mr. Timberlake did a combo of "My Love" and "SexyBack," and ( Read more... )

I've been working on an article for Mothers Movement Online about the history of poor women's activism and looking through a lot of related websites, and it's been really inspiring and hopeful for me. I tend to get overwhelmed sometimes by the stream of terrible stories in the mainstream media, and I sometimes forget to check out of that mess and ( Read more... )

My project in the next few weeks is to round up a bunch of my clothes and drop them off at I Sold It, a place that sells stuff for you on eBay. I need to get rid of some of my worst fashion mistakes and also some things in colors I refuse to wear anymore (black/gray). I'm too lazy and unorganized these days to sell them on eBay myself, so am ( Read more... )

Go here and choose five quotes to express yourself ( Read more... )