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Aug
31

Parenting in an Age of Train Wreck

TweetOver the past few days, there’s been this vortex of horrible. Dina Lohan was on the Today Show, defending her parenting and her daughter. Paris Hilton got arrested and took a mug shot that looks better than most people’s wedding pictures. And the New Jersey housewives reunited, four grown women who act like botoxed six-year… Continue reading »

Jul
23

City v. Suburbs: Part One

TweetMy friend, Lisa, wrote a blog post about why she didn’t go to Taste of Chicago this year. It’s on the new blogger community, The Chicago Moms, right here. Her primary reason — aside from the heat, mediocre food, crowds and pale, large people who feel compelled to spill, shirtless, over their jean shorts and… Continue reading »

Jul
20

Raising a Geek

TweetOver the weekend, I read a story in the New York Times about these Brooklyn kids who go to a summer camp based on a book. Camp Half-Blood, as it’s called, is based on the Percy Jackson series in which young Percy finds out that he is half Greek-god. (That Zeus. Such a wolf.) So… Continue reading »