Archive | December, 2009
Best of PunditMom 2009 — Maybe Republicans Just Don’t Like Girls
My Twitter acquaintance Leslie Sanchez wrote an interesting book this year, You’ve Come a Long Way, Maybe: Sarah, Michelle, Hillary and the Shaping of the New American Woman. While I wasn’t crazy about the frequent references to the “liberal …
Continue reading...Best of PunditMom 2009 — The “Octomom” and Why We Should Regulate Fertility Treatments
December 28, 2009
While the Punditfamily takes a little break this week, I thought I’d revisit a few posts I felt strongly about this year. To start off, my thoughts on the “octomom” and how we view adoption vs. birth children. ********************************* I …
Continue reading...If We Take Health Care for Granted, We’ll Get Thrown Under the Bus
December 26, 2009
As someone who came of age in the 1970s, I assumed things would continue to progress for women’s rights. I felt lucky to be living in an age where I knew I had access to birth control as I headed …
Continue reading...A Locks of Love Holiday
December 22, 2009
PunditGirl hasn’t had a real haircut since she was in first grade. Yes, we’ve forced her to get it trimmed, so it would “grow” — . But she has been adamant since she was old enough to wash and brush …
Continue reading...Snowpocalypse 2009 (With Health Care Crisis Thrown in for Good Measure)
December 19, 2009
One good thing about this “snow event” on the I-95 corridor this weekend — legislators are stuck here and have to keep working away on the ever evolving health care bill (not that that’s going to do us a lot …
Continue reading...Too Much Work !!
December 17, 2009
Things might get a little slow from time to time while I’m working on my book project, so in the meantime, here’s a quick political video for your “enjoyment …” …
Continue reading...Mothers of Intention — Thinking Edition
December 15, 2009
Not that I don’t try to make all the Mothers of Intention features thinking posts — be they guest essays or a round-up of great posts I’ve found on my blogosphere journeys — but there’s some really deep thinking to …
Continue reading...You May Call Me a Dreamer, But I’m Not the Only One
December 14, 2009
I’ve had this crazy idea for some time that one of the reasons women claim they’re not really “political” is because all the air has been sucked out of any space that even tries to see more than one side …
Continue reading...PunditMom Video Saturday: They ARE Sarah Palin
December 12, 2009
Is there really anything else to say?…
Continue reading...Work/Life “Balance”– Changing the Conversation
December 11, 2009
Recently, I had the pleasure of moderating an online chat with the fabulous women who created the Fem 2.0 Conference and a variety of bloggers about how we can change the conversation about families and their work/life obligations. Doesn’t it …
Continue reading...Shop for Anissa Day — December 10
December 10, 2009
One of the most fabulous things about the blogosphere is that when bloggy friends need something, we all pull together. One of the most fabulous women and mothers blogging, Anissa Mayhew, recently suffered a terrible stroke. I have known …
Continue reading...Emerging Political Girls
December 9, 2009
You may have noticed that I’m not writing her quite as much as I usually do. I’m trying to keep my nose to the grindstone on my Mothers of Intention book project and make some headway before the holidays (…
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December 29, 2009
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