This was an original post for LA Moms Blog on March 27, 2009. SV Moms Group was acquired by Technorati so I post my archives here on Fridays. Something incredibly strange happened to me the other night. The phone rang at 9:30 P.M. - always a sign of something odd since I … [Read more...]
The White American Male: Endangered Species?
This was an original post for LA Moms Blog on January 27, 2009. SV Moms Group was acquired by Technorati so I post my archives here on Fridays. Growing up as a white American woman, I never felt the slights or benefits of racial or sexist discrimination, even if they were … [Read more...]
The Part-time Working Mom Report, Vol. 1
This is week 2 of the New Deal in the Prince household. It still feels temporary, like vacation, because there hasn't yet been a full week of school. I took two days off before 9/1 to just hang out with Kyle. We went to the observatory and the park and Supercuts. We loafed … [Read more...]
On the Nose
Brady is coming along quite nicely. He is different from the way Kyle was at this age in so many ways: he talks less, he walks more and more confidently, he climbs on things, he has crazy little tantrum-like outbursts. I try not to compare, but it's a knee-jerk response. His … [Read more...]
If You Die in the Matrix, You Die in Real Life
Over the weekend our adorable, charming two-and-a-half year old boy was a royal terror. In public he was fine, like that Warner Bros. frog. But at home, after destroying the house and ripping up any paper within his reach, he took to talking back to his parents like a … [Read more...]