When I was in pre-school my teacher took my mother aside and said, “Mrs. Winbourne, we play pretty intensely here at school – finger paint, playground time, play dough – and I just want to let you know that you really don’t need to send your daughter to school in dresses every day.” To which […] Read more…
Archive of ‘Changing The World’ category
Wanna Know a Secret?
Raise your hand if you own a copy of The Secret? Are you one of 19 million people who have read it, listened to it, or watched the movie version of it in one of the 46 languages it is available in? For those of you not raising your hand, the premise of The Secret franchise is […] Read more…
I Am A Working Mother. Viva La Revolucion!
How many pity parties have you had in the last week? the last month? By my count I’m up to about two full on “poor me” moments and about a half-dozen or so micro-moments. Because it is hard! No matter how funny and rewarding trying to raise a family and a maintain a career can be […] Read more…
A Day of Debauchery
Yesterday the inmates ran the prison and it was insanely fantastic. July 4th falling on a Wednesday created the perfect storm for our family. Most of the 4th was spent knocking out housework typically reserved for the weekend which meant that there wasn’t much in the way of cleaning to be done come Saturday. On […] Read more…
Gay People Can Get Married And A Black Man is President, So What?
In the car on my way to drop my sons at camp I heard on NPR that a critical portion of DOMA had been struck down. I let out a squeal of joy and started tearing up. My sons in the back seat of course wanted to know what the heck all the fuss was about. So I […] Read more…
Doing Life Together
Let me preface this entire post by saying it’s pretty much the most uncomfortable thing I’ve probably ever written. And this coming from someone that wrote a book with an entire chapter about my sex life with my husband; so there’s that. But after what I will refer to as “The Incident” I felt I had to tackle this topic head […] Read more…
Proud Mama Moment
Maybe it’s because I was raised by hippies. Learning protest songs before nursery rhymes must have had some deep and lasting impression on my psyche. But no matter how much I rebelled against my parents (and believe me they still question if I could in fact come from their gene pool) by going to work in finance for “the man,” or […] Read more…
Strong Is The New Skinny
I hate lifting weights. Between my weak arms, the intimidating steroid pit at my gym, and you know the part where I actually have to lift the weights it just sends me over the edge. Luckily, my gym has a barbels class that I attend religiously (like lapsed-Catholic religiously) with my partner in crime – I mean my accountability […] Read more…
Defending Our Cubs
A bear got poked last Monday and it was pretty much the last straw. And folks should be on high alert because this bear is no garden variety grizzly – this bear eats grizzlies for breakfast. I’m talking about Mama Bears. We got poked and now we are angry. Okay, first we were weepy or numb. Maybe we threw ourselves a […] Read more…
One Working Mom For Marriage Equality
As a professional, when I got pregnant I realized for the first time that this playing field we call life isn’t equal after all. It was a nasty lesson to learn – especially when all I wanted to do was be psyched about being a new mom. Instead I found myself having to combat the perception that […] Read more…