
High ponytail, low estrogen. Essays about American womanhood, motherhood, and pop culture. Usually funny. Sometimes irate.
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I loved Reality Bites when it came out.
I saw it in the theater when it premiered in February 1994. I had just turned 16 and was enough of an entertainment snob to be a fan of The Ben Stiller Show and Janeane Garofalo’s standup, both of wh...
Biff and Marty from Back to the Future
Who, exactly, is Mother’s Day for?
I feel pretty confident it’s not for moms.
Most of my friends–moms of the sandwich generation variety–feel daunted by it at worst, annoyed by it at best. Why? Beca...
Photo by Red Shuheart on Unsplash
I haven’t considered myself Catholic in a decade, and for the last twenty years, it was more of a cultural identification than a religious one.
So why, when the Pentagon and President Donald Trump threate...
A watercolor of my childhood home, courtesy of artist Patty Fleckenstein
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Longtime Journalist | Humorist | Gen Xer with rapidly declining estrogen. Writes about feminism, women’s issues, pop culture, and motherhood. Co-author of I'm Sorry for My Loss. Full bio at bit.ly/3Lkqblj
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