MADS: Mothers Against Daylight Savings
Growing up, I loved Daylight Savings Time. I dreaded Spring Forward, but like every self respecting kid, loved the late daylight. As a parent, daylight savings time stinks. Families run on routine....
View ArticleThe Weight of Regret
Why does the possibility of regret hang so heavily over us? A commenter over at the Cowardly Feminist asked that question last week. The blogger, Vesta Vayne, had written a post about her current angst...
View ArticleThe Book That Was Seldom Read After Its First Printing: The Feminine Mystique
Comment bumped to post for easy linking to the point: after about 1970, it seems few feminists read their foundational tome, The Feminine Mystique. It’s relevant to something else I’m writing today....
View ArticleRazing the Village
For months now, I’ve had a third, maybe fourth, draft post about the clichés in women’s debates. But I keep raiding it for other posts and comments and have yet to finish the article itself. It...
View ArticleFamily Travel and The French Keyboard
This summer’s travels for the Lofti have gone smoothly, save of course my 4th of July, World’s Most Organized Woman fail. The twins turned 5 last spring, a magic age for families who travel. I’m...
View ArticleGrowing Up
I’m in the final stretch of early motherhood. In a little under a week, my youngest daughters start Kindergarten and all of my children will be in primary school. If only because of time, this is a...
View ArticleThe Heartless Right
My first piece in a new webmag, The Federalist, posted this morning. It is about how heartless conservatives are. It proved quite timely in this household. “What’s a bastard?” nine year old Calvin...
View ArticleThe Road Not Taken
Most of my articles start out as a conversation with a friend. My latest Razing the Village piece started forming after a dinner conversation with Diane about a year ago, but I only mentioned the point...
View ArticleThe Facile Fix: More and/or Better Nurseries
Elise Hilton over at the Acton Institute picked up my “Razing the Village” piece and wrote about one of my unstated premises of childcare, that government isn’t the solution. She reminded me of a...
View ArticleSome Mom Days Are Hard to Beat
Two weeks ago I flew to Toronto for a debate on The End of Men. Be it resolved: Men are obsolete. The week prior, I had articles and books from Caitlin Moran, Maureen Dowd, and Hanna Rosin on my desk,...
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