Posted in Children, Expectations, Sex, Stereotypes on Dec 24th, 2012
It’s Christmas and my friend’s child wants a pink bike. That’s not a problem — lots of companies make pink bikes. For girls. Her child is a boy. It’s hard being a boy who’s drawn to the color pink. Not that the kids see anything wrong with it – it’s just a color, after all. […]
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Posted in Expectations, Family, Marriage, Men, Women on Apr 9th, 2012
It’s been a tumultuous weekend, to say the least. One of my kids is angry at me, my BF and I had a huge fight and when I went to go cry it all out at my mother’s grave, I discovered that the rocks and other things I’d left on her tombstone were gone — removed, […]
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Posted in Family, Work on Mar 29th, 2012
Bullies have been on my mind lately, and it has nothing to do with the flap over the rating of the movie “Bully,” which opens Friday. Let me backtrack. I lost my voice last week, right before I was to give a talk before the Women’s Power Strategy Conference in San Rafael, organized by the […]
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