Saturday, July 18, 2009

Bad Mothering and Other Stuff

From today's Saturday Diary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
I came to motherhood in woeful denial. My image of the job dated from my own childhood, which (and here I date myself) looked much like an episode of "Madmen": mothers complaining about housework over coffee, cake and the odd cigarette while their children played unattended in the yard.

As far as I knew, my duties for the first stage of motherhood -- giving birth -- consisted of:

1) showing up

2) wearing a little makeup afterward when my husband came to visit.
The rest of it is pretty good.

Hard IFR this morning. I may not get to fly a weekend trip this summer at this rate.

57 banks have failed so far this year. 25 failed in 2007 and three in 2006.
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2 comments:

  1. lisahgolden7/19/2009 12:26 AM

    I love it! You pen with the piece about mothering and close with failed banks. I just looked at my statement that comes from Social Security. You know the one that shows your earnings and projected payout? Well, it's clear when I had babies. My personal bank is failing because of mothering.

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  2. lisahgolden7/19/2009 12:26 AM

    that's open, not pen, BTW. Sorry - fat fingers.

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