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  • Hairy

    Number of comments: 19
    updated with photo ---- In 8th grade I told the hair cutter I wanted "wisps." Wisps were the rage in the early 80's, at least in Livingston, New Jersey where I discovered them sported by all the beautifully straight-haired blonde girls during a visit to a camp friend. They were bangs, sort of,' [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 3:43pm EST
    by Mom101

  • Happy FTC Disclosure Day!

    Number of comments: 44
    Today is officially Blog Disclosure Day - the day the much yapped-about, freaked-out-about, and completely misunderstood FTC endorsement guidelines go into effect. In fact if you want to be a stickler, it's actually Advertiser Endorsement Disclosure Day but eh. It's more fun to beat up on bloggers who aren't even' [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 7:00am EST
    by Mom101

  • Cyber Monday is here, and so is the coolest holiday gift guide yet (says me)

    Number of comments: 15
    It's become a cliche to say that blogs are about one's passions - or at least the successful ones generally are. And I was using that line one day, when someone asked me about Cool Mom Picks: So, are you passionate about shopping then? I said no. I like shoppping. Hell to [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 8:18pm EST
    by Mom101

  • One big happy F-A-M-I-L-Y

    Number of comments: 24
    When I was four, I remember sitting down at my preschool table to paint a mom, a dad, and two kids on a blue and white piece of gingham fabric. At the bottom, I spelled out the word FAMILY. I still recall the teachers rushing over, shocked shocked at the word [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:17am EST
    by Mom101

  • Infiltrating the Literati

    Number of comments: 50
    Just when I was feeling kind of low and powerless and generally blah (that's the technical term), the universe tossed me a bone in the form of a distraction. A big honkin' distraction, in fact: A reading of one of the essays I contributed to See Mom Run at an' [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 1:33pm EST
    by Mom101

  • Shaking fist angrily at the universe

    I had never heard of the site Caring Bridge until this week. Then I received an email about someone who had set up a page there. Then I received a second email from someone entirely different who had set up a page there. That's not exactly a good week. Caring Bridge offers journal' [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:31am EST
    by Mom101

  • Bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy fun fun fun fun fun

    Number of comments: 21
    When you're lying there in the hospital cradling that new baby in your arms, no one tells you that you'll never be able to wear pencil skirts without Spanx again. They don't tell you've just had your very last shower with the bathroom door closed. And they certainly don't tell' [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:04am EST
    by Mom101

  • Blogging Moms Wooed by Food Firms - My rambly two cents on the LA Times Article

    Number of comments: 72
    Today the Los Angeles Times ran a front page story called Blogging Moms Wooed by Food Firms. I'm quoted in it, as are a number of other bloggers who may or may not be happy about it. Although man I love Elisa Camahort-Page's pornography analogy. That alone makes it worth the' [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 8:56am EST
    by Mom101

  • Bloggers - We're Givers

    Number of comments: 17
    The holidays are here, more or less, whether I'm ready or not. It's a little challenging for us this year with tighter budgets than ever. Or to be brutally honest, it feels nothing short of awful not to be able to give my kids the things they're asking for, especially [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:10am EST
    by Mom101

  • Lessons from the bag of Ineffective Parenting Tricks

    Number of comments: 38
    Just when I think I kind of have this parenting thing down, some new situation comes along that proves to me that, nope. Not really.  Trying to give my daughter eyedrops last week to battle the cold that had spread to her eyes, was a comedy of parenting errors. You'd' [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:12am EST
    by Mom101

  • What's up with the FTC and blogs these days? Don't ask me, ask the FTC

    Number of comments: 4
    Things I have seen or heard about the FTC regulation of blogs in the last six months (which, by the way, goes into effect on December 1) Targeting bloggers is discriminatory Targeting bloggers violates my free speech The FTC is not actually targeting bloggers at all It's a law It's a guideline It's all Obama's' [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:09am EST
    by Mom101

  • The Yankees Parade: The view from a New Yorker

    Number of comments: 6
    Let's just say you can't beat the view, the snacks are free, and the temperature is downright balmy.' [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:08pm EST
    by Mom101

  • Happy happy joy joy

    Number of comments: 38
    I was really honored that yesterday, Gretchen Rubin, amazing author and happiness evangelist included me in her series of Happiness Project interviews. (You can also find it on Slate, which...wow. Kinda nice.) It seems like happiness is making a comeback. Or maybe because I'm interested in it, the happiness stuff is just' [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:17am EST
    by Mom101

  • Eulogy for a poop joke

    Number of comments: 30
    Thalia came home last week informing us that Poop is now a bad word. Or so say her preschool teachers. RIP the poop joke. Its passing is sad and untimely, but not altogether unexpected. What can I say, we had a good run while we can, what with Thalia's President Poopyhead [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:22am EST
    by Mom101

  • Coming to terms with the princess thing

    Number of comments: 33
    Okay so I admit it. We're snotty. We didn't want our kids to be your ordinary, run of the mill Disney fairy princesses, with the sparkles and the scratchy tulle and the strap-on wings that flew here directly from Dongguan Province (like magic!) and landed in the local Target. Nate decided [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:00am EST
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  • Mawiage. Mawiage is what bwings us togethew today.

    Number of comments: 45
    Yesterday Thalia raced through the door after school, far happier than she was when she came home last week. (And by the way, your advice and consolation in comments meant the world. Thank you. I'm happy to say she's recovered quite nicely and has a shiny new friendship bracelet to' [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:15am EDT
    by Mom101

  • The Slutty Halloween Costume Test

    Number of comments: 40
    Let's be honest, it takes a whole lot of creativity to avoid the societal (or Ricky's) pressure to be a slutty nurse, slutty fairy, slutty cop, slutty flapper, or slutty Freddy Krueger on Halloween. You only think I'm joking. Because when I think sexy, I think serial killer. Rowr. My non-blogging friend Jennifer [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 10:42am EDT
    by Mom101

  • The heartbreakers of pre-k

    Number of comments: 41
    Last night Thalia came home from school, not her usual happy self. "What happened in school today?" I asked. "Well, today we made friendship bracelets. But no one made me one." Evidently the kids all created bracelets for anyone they wanted - a kid in the class, a sibling, a parent. But while [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 10:01am EDT
    by Mom101

  • Because trust me, you don't want to see me naked, Chicago

    Number of comments: 37
    Yesterday I checked into the Hard Rock Hotel Chicago for the Marketing 2 Moms conference, went up to my beautiful room, plopped down my stuff and headed into the bathroom. The bathroom with the ginormous picture window facing all of downtown. I tweeted:  And in a stroke of social media mastery, [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 9:01am EDT
    by Mom101

  • On balloon boy, blogging, and who's least likely to scar their children for life

    Number of comments: 44
    This morning I did a live interview for the NPR show, The Takeaway, about La Famille Balloon Boy (My favorite family. No, really. ) and reality TV show families in general. Let me tell you, there is something both awesome and totally terrifying about sitting 2 feet from a pro like [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 9:52am EDT
    by Mom101

  • Dear Balloon Boy Family, You F*cking Suck

    Number of comments: 49
    I watched yesterday, riveted.I watched that balloon floating away and imagined the worst.I cried.I was furious with those who made cynical jokes on Twitter, who doubted, who speculated fraud.I gave you the benefit of the doubt. I put myself on the line for you.I shushed my children while I followed [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 7:19pm EDT
    by Mom101

  • Espana, baby

    Number of comments: 32
    I am jet-lagged, happy, delighted, inspired, humbled, exhausted, and home from Barcelona.Or Barf-e-low-va, as Sage is calling it.Port de BarfelovaThank you to all of you who sent amazing advice, good wishes, and excursion ideas. As for those of you reminding me how to order a cerveza in Spanish--as it turns [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 12:34pm EDT
    by Mom101

  • Some things I will miss about New York and one I won't

    Number of comments: 31
    Barcelona is so close I can taste the chocolate dipped churros. And other things. That I may be forced to eat.(And suddenly I'm panicking that I'm going to be in the kinds of restaurants where I'll have have to smile while eating the rabbit intestines dipped in sea urchin. Worse' [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 7:50am EDT
    by Mom101

  • National Outstanding Blogger Awareness Day (NOBAD)

    Number of comments: 84
    I feel like there is more niceness needed around these here parts right now.Between the #nestlefamily twitter debate and internet trolls and and Glenn Beck and various other bits of insanity, I want to continue to be the annoying glass-half-full kind of a gal that makes cynics (and Nate) absolutely [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2009, 7:24am EDT
    by Mom101

  • The story of mommy and daddy (or, the most boring bedtime story ever told)

    Number of comments: 24
    Do you want to hear the story of how daddy and I met? I asked the kids, at a loss for another plotline in the bedtime story about Teddy the Bear and Flower the unicorn who went to the Fancy Foods Show."Yes!"Okay, because it's our anniversary next week. Which means [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2009, 9:56am EDT
    by Mom101

  • Saving Women's Lives -and- Blurry Shots of Supermodels

    Number of comments: 39
    Last week, I squeezed my Spanx-sheathed arse into a size 6 Armani dress from 10 years ago (postpartum triumph!) and prayed that no one would notice the length was all wrong. I was headed to the 4th Important Dinner for Women at Cipriani 42nd Street."I think I am the only" [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 8:03pm EDT
    by Mom101

  • Dance of My Sugarplum Fairy

    Number of comments: 32
    After more than a year of donning 2T tutus in the living room, cranking up the classical on demand channel or the Prima Princessa ballet DVD and thinking that would somehow suffice for my whirling, twirling, leaping little girl, we gave in. Yesterday we took Thalia to her first real [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2009, 12:47pm EDT
    by Mom101

  • Wanted: People to laugh at the funny parts.

    Number of comments: 13
    Oh my gosh, what with the first day of school and the begging for El Bulli dinner reservations that the Queen of England couldn't get, get and the cleaning up of cat poop six hundred times a day, I almost compleeeetely forgot to beg you to come to a show.Yes,' [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 12:25pm EDT
    by Mom101

  • First Day Blues

    Number of comments: 29
    "Now hold my hand..." Thalia beckoned as we walked out the door to meet her new teacher and new classmates on Wednesday. "You have to hold my hand. That's what you do.""Well okay!" I said, proud to entwine my fingers in hers all while wondering how long it would be [...]
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    Posted: September 21, 2009, 7:40am EDT
    by Mom101

  • OMG OMG OMG. In other words, the OMG post.

    Number of comments: 67
    This week, I went to this event called Swagapalooza--which, hello, moms would be reeeeeamed for if they ever dreamed of throwing such an event. But we won't go into that right now.It was actually not a swag whore thing --the swag bags were definitely secondary to the event itself--but rather' [...]
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    Posted: September 19, 2009, 4:25pm EDT
    by Mom101

  • Dora the Explorer fragrance for children and other reasons the apocalypse is nigh

    Number of comments: 53
    I try not to rag on the bad pitches I get at Cool Mom Picks. Really I do. Although last night, I did have a grand old time dishing with the totally cool editors of The Giggle Guide about the Worst Product for Kids Ever.(My vote: The disembodied hand in [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 11:07am EDT
    by Mom101

  • What happens in Vegas goes right on the blog.

    Number of comments: 33
    The people of Vegas are not like you and me.This is a place where the skirts are smaller than some belts I own.And what would be considered a wardrobe malfunction anywhere else is, in fact, a deliberate style choice.This is a place where it's not unusual to see a sign [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 8:54am EDT
    by Mom101

  • Buh-bye 40

    Number of comments: 63
    Today is my last day of 40. And I'm finding myself in that strange position I was exactly a decade ago, when 30 came to a screeching halt.I remember having looked forward to 30 for so long, to the maturity and authority I thought it would confer, to the great' [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 8:02am EDT
    by Mom101

  • Blog With Integrity, the next chapter

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    A few people have asked me lately what has come out of the Blog with Integrity effort.Here is what has come out of it: A renewal in my faith in humanity.I admit (mea culpa) I am often inclined to see the world in more black and white than it warrants. [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 9:20pm EDT
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  • M is for Mmmmmmm. Maybe.

    Number of comments: 17
    The other day, Thalia told daddy she now likes mushrooms. I'm not sure who was more excited, but I think it was Nate."Would you like to order some mushrooms on your scrambled eggs at the diner morning?" he asked her."OH, YES," she exclaimed. Nate flagged the waiter."You want them on'" [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2009, 12:29pm EDT
    by Mom101

  • I see London, I see abject humiliation...

    Number of comments: 56
    "We had a little mishap this morning," my sitter told me.What kind of mishap?"Well, the stroller wasn't working," she said, "and I looked down to see what was happening and it was the wheel. Something was in the wheel. And so we bent down to try and fix it and'" [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 8:25pm EDT
    by Mom101

  • What are you worth as a blogger?

    Number of comments: 127
    I recently found some genius website that rates your blog's worth. For the record? Mom-101= $2,258.16.Which actually sounds a little high to me. I'd sell it for $926 even and some chocolate-covered pretzels.But there's no algorithm, no dandy widget, no magic formula that helps determine our value as bloggers to' [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 2:39am EDT
    by Mom101

  • So this is what they mean by chef's widow

    Number of comments: 36
    This weekend Nate landed his first real, paid, entry-level, guy wearing a chef's hat job, pitting avocados and frying up gourmet arepas for the downtown foodie crowd.($8/hour gravy train, here we come baby!)I am so so very proud of him for being the guy who, in his early thirties, realizes [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 9:44am EDT
    by Mom101

  • The ex-boyfriend post, by inadvertent request.

    Number of comments: 29
    One of the cool things about that dandy new green Lijit search bar in my right column is the ability to see what people are searching for on my site.Which is not to be confused with what people are searching for to get to my site.(Let's just say I am [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 10:07am EDT
    by Mom101

  • Separated at birth. No really. So close it's uncanny.

    Number of comments: 21
    I was messing around on Bing this weekend, and after typing my name into the image search (oh admit it, you do it too) this came up:So now you understand why I hide behind my laptop in near anonymity day in and day out.It's painful being so imperfect--just something I'm' [...]
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    Posted: August 22, 2009, 5:36pm EDT
    by Mom101

  • Once in a while, is it okay to say "told ya so?"

    Number of comments: 34
    Five months ago I addressed group of marketers and package good manufacturers at a conference and warned them that high fructose corn syrup was going to be their next big consumer issue. Panic ensued. Blog discussion was intense. Commenters on my posts told me I was an idiot. More or [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 9:10am EDT
    by Mom101

  • All the love inside you

    Number of comments: 63
    This morning Thaila woke up late, bounded into the living room in her blue nightgown and curled up on my lap. I was anticipating the usual morning banter: I'm hungry/I had a dream about Bubbles and Buttercup/Look, Emily peed on the floor. But instead:"You know what M says about what'" [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 10:21am EDT
    by Mom101

  • With apologies to that terrible children's book

    Number of comments: 21
    "Do you know how much I love you Thalia?""Thiiiis much.""That's right. Or maybe more than that.""Up to the ceiling?""Even higher! What's higher than the ceiling?""The trees!""Yes, I love you up to the trees. And what's higher than the trees?""The sky!""Yes, and what's higher than the sky?""A dragon! A really big" [...]
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    Posted: August 16, 2009, 9:28am EDT
    by Mom101

  • You can't watch this and not smile

    Number of comments: 19
    Yesterday I had the privilege of spending the afternoon at Atlantic Records on a fun little consulting project with some other bloggers I love.  While we were there (feeling hopelessly uncool and un-rock star like next to all the ginormous posters of Kid Rock and Led Zeppelin and Missy Elliot) [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2009, 11:36am EDT
    by Mom101

  • Back to school: You can be ready even if I'm not.

    Number of comments: 15
    I have kids who won't have their winter gloves until the day after it actually snows, and I am so late buying bathing suits we're stuck with whatever scary selection is left on the sales racks at Old Navy in mid-June. Why is this you might ask?1) I just cannot [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2009, 6:30am EDT
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  • Daddy. My own.

    Number of comments: 78
    The other night was a bad night. Just the kind of night where I needed to bitch and vent and cry a little. Stomp around the house and slam some doors, then take a breathless walk around the block.When I did, I called my dad."I see," he said after every [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 7:54am EDT
    by Mom101

  • Ode to Ricotta

    Number of comments: 41
    In this new economy, we don't have a Hamptons house to give up, or a second car, or even a first car newer than 10 years old. We don't have violin lessons or ski weekends or a gardener or housekeeper to give up when we try to tighten up the [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 12:19pm EDT
    by Mom101

  • Yep, I'm a mother. Got a problem with that?

    Number of comments: 92
    It used to be me.I was the one who sat at my Madison Avenue desk (whch was rarely anywhere near Madison Avenue, truth be told) and thought, "how do we talk to moms?"I was the one who sat in the dark behind the two-way mirror in focus groups rolling my [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2009, 8:38am EDT
    by Mom101

  • In which I introduce you to lesser known BlogHers and lesser known fruits.

    Number of comments: 45
    Kristen and I take in the sights of Chicago courtesy of Safety First and 360 PR. No really! We were like, totally out on the town and there just happened to be a giant logo floating in the sky. And um...a curtain. Behind it all. And some strings. One of [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 10:24pm EDT
    by Mom101

  • The Year that Shame Died

    Number of comments: 164
    Last week, the brilliant Busy Mom tweeted that 2009 is the year that shame died. I jokingly responded that no, I think that was back in 1983 when Madonna introduced lingerie as outerwear. But her quip has stayed with me ever since.The BlogHer conference, as always, was phenomenal in so [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2009, 10:00am EDT
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  • Blog with Integrity - we're taking our community back

    Number of comments: 100
    2009, sadly, has so far been the year that parenting bloggers were--often unfairly--vilified in the media. With talk of "blogola," pay for play, shady review blogs, PR blackouts, and the grossly false assertion by the WSJ blog that the FTC is "considering new rules for parent bloggers," you'd think that' [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2009, 8:35am EDT
    by Mom101

  • It's true, California. The gays are coming for your children.

    Number of comments: 29
    And suddenly I have YMCA stuck on a continuous loop in my head. [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2009, 6:00am EDT
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  • What unites us

    Number of comments: 30
    Sunday morning, after a jovial night in Denver of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, fantastic conversation, and Rock Band for the Wii (turns out I'm a drummer at heart), I awoke in my friend Julie's comfy, cushy guest bed surrounded on three walls by photos of her wedding.Also her past military service.While' [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2009, 10:12am EDT
    by Mom101

  • My 2 cents (ie about a million words) on the PR Blackout

    A whoooole lotta people have been asking me my take about this week's call for a PR blackout, a whole week in August in which bloggers are supposed to turn a cold shoulder to the PR industry. (And conveniently, the very same week that no major blogger junkets had been [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 6:05pm EDT
    by Mom101

  • Bloggers v Popular People: A Pre-BlogHer Field Guide

    Number of comments: 93
    You can tell we are getting close to the annual blogger conference, because of the marked increase of posts displaying arguably insane levels of social anxiety.What if I don't make friends?What if no one talks to me for the entire three days?What if I don't get invited to parties?What if [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 8:05am EDT
    by Mom101

  • So long, farewell, don't let the door hit you on the way out you little plastic tools of evil

    Number of comments: 43
    Saturday night I decided it was time. I told Sage that it was the right moment to give her binkies up for some babies who need them. She wasn't biting.That is, until I said that we could send them to Margot.Margot, whom Sage adored when she came to visit last' [...]
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    Posted: July 13, 2009, 5:55pm EDT
    by Mom101

  • The name's dotcom. Mom-101 dotcom.

    Number of comments: 39
    So it's official: Mom-101 is now Mom-101.com.Frankly, I was tired of writing .blogspot.com on nametags, in the URL bar, and on the boobs of passed-out drunk women on barroom floors when I'm self-promoting in subversive ways.Huge thanks to Cynical Dad for again getting me through big scary tech stuff and' [...]
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    Posted: July 11, 2009, 2:28pm EDT
    by Mom101

  • Paying it forward with tampons and booze

    Number of comments: 41
    I got home last night to a most happy of all possible happy emails, explaining that I had somehow, through the miracle of good karma (I held the elevator door open a lot for old ladies this week)--or more likely, random number generators--won one of several scholarships to cover BlogHer [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2009, 11:06pm EDT
    by Mom101

  • Suburban envy? (WTF?)

    Number of comments: 61
    Recently I've found myself with a raging case of suburb envy, the affliction New Yorkers are most hard-pressed to confess to.(It's closely followed by dislike of the Angelika theater and a secret crush on the fajitas at Chili's.)It started at my brother's house recently; I watched the kids through the [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 11:38am EDT
    by Mom101

  • Four. Wow. How did that happen?

    Number of comments: 33
    "You know," I said to Thalia, as I cuddled her in my lap last night, "this time four years ago you were still in my belly juuuust about ready to come out. I didn't know you yet and I was so excited to meet you, especially because I wasn't a" [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2009, 6:58am EDT
    by Mom101

  • Where is the Etiquette Bitch when you need her?

    Number of comments: 82
    It's one of those mornings where I'm struggling to be a weekday mother and simultaneously struggling with being an urban dog owner.You suburban people, with your ground level homes and fancy yards and ability to leave your kids in front of the TV for a minute while you pop out' [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2009, 10:52am EDT
    by Mom101

  • Return of the Type B Mom

    Number of comments: 45
    A few nights ago, a great friend came over to ply me with Riesling and keep me company in my current state of chef's widowdom.I cleared a patch of cat hair on the couch for her, and grabbed some wine glasses I prayed weren't covered in Yo Baby. Then she' [...]
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    Posted: June 29, 2009, 8:49am EDT
    by Mom101

  • God, I'm freaking old

    Number of comments: 102
    I graduated high school on this date in 1986. I wrote a rendition of Forever Young called Forever Friends, changing the lyrics can you imagine when this race is won to something like can you imagine when high school's done. I also changed the chorus of Addicted to Love, to [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2009, 12:11am EDT
    by Mom101

  • A heartbreaking post of staggering randomness

    Number of comments: 7
    There are all these things floating around my brain that don't quite fit into 140 characters so I figured I'd get them all down here:1. If you're not subscribing to Cool Mom Picks, this would be a dandy time. We're offering a ridiculous number of exclusive discounts and other goodies [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 11:56am EDT
    by Mom101

  • Hair! Everywhere! Bah!

    Number of comments: 35
    So I'm kind of over the animals.When Nate insisted on rescuing two cats. two cats (you know, for kids) on top of the dog on top of the two children, it was Christmas. I wasn't thinking about summer.How a cat can seemingly shed more than six times its weight in [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 7:41am EDT
    by Mom101

  • Not just for a short time but for a long time

    Number of comments: 33
    This week Thalia has been reverting back to her old bedtime routine. And by routine I mean total lack of interest in sleeping in her own bed whatsoever and generally driving me crazy ape sh*t bonkers.Unfortunately Sage is currently enjoying the same routine. So after much fuss and debate and [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2009, 10:13pm EDT
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  • Un(boy)friended

    Number of comments: 77
    Eh, Facebook is pretty much useless if you can't track down old boyfriends from 20 years ago and say yo. Which is pretty much what I did when I tracked down the old boyfriend from 20 years ago and said yo.It was an intense enough college relationship - we dated,' [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2009, 12:33pm EDT
    by Mom101

  • Pregnancy: So beautiful. On other people.

    Number of comments: 65
    For some reason I've found myself surrounded by pregnant women recently. Not young nubile first-timers either, but women my age. Give or take a few white lies.There's the mom of two who's sheepishly asking me if I'd ever consider a third, the telltale sign--if I've ever heard it--that she's already' [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2009, 4:26pm EDT
    by Mom101

  • Blogging - your very own digital ginkgo biloba

    Number of comments: 27
    Sometimes there are just moments I want to remember, even though I don't have a whole post's worth to say about them.Thalia at about two years old, looking at a beer and calling it "Daddy Juice."The look of absolute joy on Thalia's face the first time she saw Pinnochio reunite' [...]
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    Posted: June 14, 2009, 4:40pm EDT
    by Mom101

  • Making her feminist mama proud

    Number of comments: 18
    The fairy princess doctor races off to save her next patient. Possibly with magic. More likely with Dora band-aids. [...]
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    Posted: June 13, 2009, 11:01am EDT
    by Mom101

  • Eating well? Well...

    Number of comments: 71
    I have spent the last three months learning how to be a chef's widow. Or really, if we're going for accuracy, a culinary student widow. (As a real chef's widow could tell you.)Oh, don't feel bad for me. It's not like restaurants won't be lining up to hand him an' [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2009, 8:36am EDT

  • They're not good dancers, they don't play drums

    Number of comments: 57
    Last week, I was informed that one of Thalia's 4 year old classmates was taking violin lessons. Because as we all know, any child not taking violin lessons in pre-k is doomed to grow up to work in the service of those who did take violin lessons in pre-k. Most [...]
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    Posted: June 06, 2009, 11:17am EDT

  • School's Out For Summer

    Number of comments: 16
    Yesterday was Thalia's last day of her first year of school. It seems like moments ago that she put on her little gray jumper and grabbed her big girl backpack and skipped out the door--and only in part because insisted on putting on the very same, now kind of too [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2009, 5:24am EDT

  • "Janet is fat"

    Number of comments: 31
    "Janet is fat," Thalia told my mother this weekend. She didn't say it matter-of-factly. That would have been easier. Instead she said it in that sheepish, timid way that indicated she was testing the waters with her description of her preschool teacher to see how we would react."What does that'" [...]
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    Posted: May 31, 2009, 10:53am EDT

  • Mommybloggings Part Deux: The marketers are here to stay. Are we?

    Number of comments: 151
    Once upon a time I wrote a post called Mommybloggings that is so out of date now it's practically hilarious. In fact I think I may have been wearing a bonnet and petticoat as I dipped my quill feather in ink and described how some moms were here for community [...]
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    Posted: May 27, 2009, 5:55pm EDT

  • The No-Sleep Sleep Solution, Round II

    Number of comments: 34
    I am hereby convinced that I am some sort of bad sleeper lightning rod. I am filled with bad sleeper mojo and turn every child in my presence into some kind of raging insomniac.When we accept weekend visits with friends and family, their little angels don't sleep and the whole' [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2009, 11:15pm EDT

  • Why I'm loving the Christian Science Monitor today

    Number of comments: 24
    We say we write for ourselves, here in this weird place that most of our parents and friends have yet to understand. But we kind of don't. We hope people are reading. And I don't mean marketers exactly. (Well, at least some of us.)When we write, we hope to varying [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2009, 7:42am EDT

  • "Hey, you got sexual innuendo in my chocolate." "Hey, you got chocolate in my sexual innuendo!"

    Number of comments: 18
    If there's one thing I can tell you about advertising, it's that commercials would consistently be awesome if there weren't any pesky clients around to rewrite it and tell you the word "not" is a negative so you can't use it, and that they'd like to put the head of' [...]
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    Posted: May 22, 2009, 10:05am EDT

  • Well there's one way to scare the crap out of me.

    Number of comments: 23
    This is what I found on my entryway bookshelf last night. Just sitting there at eye level. A wig. A really creepy wig. Oh, for no reason at all.And that pretty much sums up life with Nate. [...]
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    Posted: May 19, 2009, 6:34am EDT

  • Chutes & Ladders: A Cheater's Guide

    Number of comments: 42
    I'm finding this really weird thing now in that I actually have to play with my kids. I can't just turn on Mario Kart for the Wii, hand Thalia a steering wheel that's not plugged in to anything in particular, and say "look, you're driving, honey!" any more.(Okay, I can.' [...]
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    Posted: May 18, 2009, 12:03am EDT

  • Humidity, hot dogs, charity, and enough buttercream frosting to kill a diabetic horse.

    Number of comments: 12
    The rain mercifully held off yesterday but the humidity loomed, creating the single worst hair day of the year. And so what does one do on the single worst hair day of the year? Photograph everyone you know, of course.Bloggers: They go to parties, just like real people!Isabel and Betsy: [...]
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    Posted: May 17, 2009, 10:39am EDT

  • If your'e going to be emotional, might as well do it in front of a room of four year-olds who might not remember it later.

    Number of comments: 36
    Over the past few weeks, Thalia's school has had these "all about me" days in which each child gets to show the class some of her favorite things, read her favorite book, and for all I know lie back in a lounger being fed grapes by some bare-chested Disney character [...]
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    Posted: May 15, 2009, 9:16am EDT

  • Must be love

    Number of comments: 39
    Today Sage turns two. And in an odd twist of fate, I fell in deeply in love with her this past week.Which makes me believe that perhaps I perhaps wasn't before.It's like seeing a favorite flower on the windowsill, one you could have sworn was in full blossom - and' [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2009, 9:38am EDT

  • Five Easy Pieces, snotty Brooklyn coffee shop style

    Number of comments: 29
    Me: Can I get a croissant with brie?Barrista With an Attitude: Um, I don't know if we can do that.Me: Well you have croissants. And you have brie, right?BWA: Yes.Me: So is that okay then?BWA: Well what I have to do is order a brie on a baguette, then also' [...]
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    Posted: May 08, 2009, 9:26am EDT
    by Mom101

  • Friends inside the computer, outside the computer

    Number of comments: 36
    It's a funny thing about these internet relationships. You meet a friend online (so to speak), you bond quickly over things like 80s hair, good writing, big rings, and a passion for supporting other moms. So you start a business together that combines all of those things (although not so [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2009, 11:14am EDT

  • Just try prying that name change application out of my cold, dead hands

    Number of comments: 58
    Thalia and Sage wake up this morning and toddle in together to the living room where I was already awake and working.The first words out of Thalia's mouth, even before good morning, are that from now, on her name is going to be Joanna."Oh is that so?" I ask."I was" [...]
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    Posted: May 04, 2009, 10:51am EDT

  • Being a New York mom has its benefits

    Number of comments: 11
    There are some things kind of messed up about living in New York. Like we have to walk 15 minutes to a garage to get our car and we pretend that Central Park is the beach.But then, if you do live here, look at all the awesome things you can [...]
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    Posted: May 03, 2009, 8:45am EDT

  • Phew, at least it's not the Wine Flu. I'd hate to give up Chenin Blanc.

    Number of comments: 71
    Right now I feel like the only mom who hasn't yet quarantined my children, invested in gas masks, and run around in a circle in public shouting SWINE FLU! SWINE FLU! AHHHHHH!The last time I remember feeling this way was in 2001 when the Anthrax thing struck and New York' [...]
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    Posted: April 30, 2009, 10:05am EDT

  • The lost songs

    Number of comments: 34
    I have this theory that in everyone's life there is a collection of lost songs - those once beloved tunes turned cringe-worthy things of auditory and perhaps emotional pain.Where at one time they were the songs that made you happy, made you dance, made you swoon, at some point the [...]
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    Posted: April 28, 2009, 12:02am EDT

  • The Brodie Chronicles: Smithsonian Edition

    Number of comments: 19
    I don't think I'm telling tales out of school to say that my 11 year-old nephew, Brodie, has not exactly had the most conventionally normal, happy, suburban, two-car garage, shiny Schwinn on the front lawn upbringing.He's never known his father. And his mother is currently sowing some wild oats (again) [...]
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    Posted: April 27, 2009, 9:53am EDT

  • Three letters

    Number of comments: 15
    You know what's nice? Spending the weekend with your 11 year old nephew and seeing the world through his eyes.I forgot how the idea of free slippers in an upscale hotel can be the single coolest thing in the world. Or as he put it to the bellman who showed [...]
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    Posted: April 25, 2009, 4:51pm EDT

  • This is how you get a blogger to write about your brand

    Number of comments: 14
    Hi Mom-101, we'd like to send you some flowers. You would? Why? What's the catch? What do you want from me? Are you following me? Are you stalking me? You're stalking me aren't you. Should I be calling the FBI?We're just recognizing different moms for Mother's Day and we wanted [...]
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    Posted: April 23, 2009, 7:19am EDT

  • Today, preschool. Tomorrow, Baywatch.

    Number of comments: 12
    Thalia is learning about marine life in preschool this week all with perfectly preschool-appropriate activities: Reading a story about an octopus, painting a giant whale, making crab cakes. Blah blah blah.So it made sense when she said that her classmates have all been playing "Jellyfish" this week and she wanted [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2009, 8:34pm EDT

  • I like the Square Butt commercial and I cannot lie

    Number of comments: 57
    The other day I was watching a very important PBS documentary. Okay, it was Real Housewives of NYC.(After which Nate said, "We really need to talk about your TV habits because they're bad." )(And then I realized that I'm not going to take TV-watching advice from the guy who still [...]
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    Posted: April 21, 2009, 9:55am EDT
    by Mom101

  • Thanks O.B., for providing hours of femininely hygienic fun.

    Number of comments: 36
    A whole house full of toys and the kids like to play with the "tankons." [...]
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    Posted: April 19, 2009, 1:11pm EDT

  • Weekend mother

    Number of comments: 63
    After months of being a regular office grunt with a day job, I found myself with a few free days out of the office this week.Today happened to coincide with my sitter's day off and the next thing you know, it's 10 and the kids aren't dressed yet and Sage' [...]
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    Posted: April 16, 2009, 2:33pm EDT

  • This headline is not optimized for SEO

    Number of comments: 40
    I am a word nerd. This means I set my DVR for Will Shortz interviews, do wacky things like read 25 pages of the encyclopedia, and find myself physically pained by press releases that describe how "Mom's will just love our new patent-pending Baybee Onezees!!!"Illegal use of Y! Illegal use [...]
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    Posted: April 15, 2009, 1:25pm EDT

  • Dara Torres, an Olympian after my own heart

    Number of comments: 25
    From left to right: Alice Bradley, Maggie Mason, Kim, Me not so subtly hiding my bare flabby triceps, Dara Torres, Jill, Tracey Gaughran-Perez, Amy Storch, gorgeous bebe Ezra, Dory Devlin . Also Mr. Fancy Photographer Guy: Fish-eye lenses may be awesome for 1980's Tom Petty videos but they are not [...]
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    Posted: April 14, 2009, 8:08am EDT

  • Easter v Passover Smackdown 2009

    Number of comments: 20
    Easter eggs on acid, courtesy Mahar Dry GoodsOnce again, Peaster has come and gone in my mother's household, only this time with less political outrage than years past and more forcing my aunt and uncle to sit through "Come on Thalia, sing When I'm 64 for everyone!" Personally I prefer' [...]
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    Posted: April 12, 2009, 7:03pm EDT

  • 13 again

    Number of comments: 53
    *Updated with blog linkSomeone recently pointed me towards the blog of her 8th grade daughter and I was instantly transported.maybe it was the way it was written with all lowercase and no punctuation except in random placesMaybe it was something about the brooding expressions of faux pretension, the description of [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2009, 10:20pm EDT
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