Operating in the Negative
On paper, government paper, I barely exist. My Social Security statements show the gaping hole in my employment history. I have not brought in a regular salary for almost a decade. I have nothing...
View Articlewhy we blog
rosie blogs just like me she writes in odd verse without punctuation or editing for typos or grammar spewing random thoughts like a hyped-up toddler with multiple personalities or attention deficit...
View ArticleUnbalanced, Part 1
It is just after 5 p.m. on Friday, and I am at my usual post -- the spectator's balcony at my children's gymnastics classes. Up top, the moms and dads sit with their crumpled newspapers or magazines,...
View ArticleUnbalanced, Part II
"You're out of balance," the chiropractor tells me after reviewing my x-rays and going over my symptoms. "But I think I can help you." I look at the motivational poster behind her head that reads,...
View ArticleAdopting Elvis
My husband, Mike, looks at me and says bluntly, "You know this is a mistake." The cashier hands Mike his credit-card receipt, and my husband signs his name on the line. I look down at the...
View ArticleDone
I'm done having babies. At least, I think I am. My kids are now nine and six years old respectively, in fourth and first grades, and I am home all day alone. I am free to write full-time -- essays,...
View ArticleSharp Curves Ahead
In January 1996, I was working as an intern at New York Women In Film, when I decided to attend a workshop called "Adapting Your Story for the Stage or Screen." The main guest speaker and draw of the...
View ArticleHollywood and Mom?
I have a bone to pick with Hollywood. You see, I'm a Jersey Girl, born and bred, and so it really irritates me that I'm always being told that I MUST MOVE TO L.A., if I want to have a …[Read more...]
View ArticleSquare Pegs
Once upon a time, long before Sarah Jessica Parker wittily bantered with her hip clique of chicks about Sex and the City on the streets of Manhattan, she appeared as a gawky, shy, nerdy teenage girl...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Motherhood
I'm jealous of my brothers' wives. One just recently gave birth to her first child, and the other is due with her first baby in August. I'm not jealous because I want to be pregnant or have another...
View ArticleStaying Cool
Once upon a time, I used to be cool. I wasn't cool in high school. Back then I studied too hard and was considered a geek. I wasn't cool in college either. I avoided the whole sorority house scene and...
View ArticleLonging to Glow
Early in my first pregnancy, I was feeling rather blue. At Week 14, I wrote in my pregnancy journal: I'm supposed to be feeling better -- much better. I guess in some ways I am. The major vomiting is...
View ArticleCover Moms
Gwyneth Paltrow. Kate Hudson. Reese Witherspoon. Courtney Cox-Arquette. These beautiful, young, successful movie stars have come to represent the Hollywood Elite. Yet, despite high-powered careers in...
View ArticleConfessions of a Desperate Housewife
Everybody is talking about ABC's wildly popular, darkly comedic soap opera, "Desperate Housewives". And while I originally tuned in expecting to despise Hollywood's skewed depiction of marriage and...
View ArticleNo Mother is an Island
EXT. SECLUDED ISLAND BEACH -- DAY A serene and beautiful island paradise -- a long stretch of white, sandy beaches, an aqua sky, rolling waves. A WOMAN, in her mid-thirties, somewhat attractive, yet...
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