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Category Archive for 'holiday'

Let’s Tell The Truth About Mother’s Day

Posted in family life, holiday, mommy guilt on May 7th, 2010

Sigh. Facebook is at it again. well, not Facebook itself, but the community of FBers. As I type, with a day and a half until Mother’s Day descends upon us again, one of those “copy and paste this and put it in your status line if you’re a Mom!” thingies is virusing its way around. [...]

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Rudolph and his Dad: Why Donner Would Never Be Allowed to Call his Son a Misfit Today

Posted in bad parents in fiction, holiday on Dec 8th, 2009

The other day, on impulse at the supermarket, I picked up the DVD of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” for the boys. They hadn’t seen it yet, even though it’s been on TV. Both of them are rehearsing holiday songs for their school concerts, so it’s been a nonstop chorus of Rudolph over here, and I [...]

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