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Long Distance Mom: Domestic Pathology
Todd Haynes’s adaptation of Hollywood noir writer James M. Cain’s novel, Mildred Pierce (1941) , premiered on HBO recently. Kate...
ABC's and PhD's: Race to Nowhere
I had another blog planned, but I just got back from a presentation of the film “Race to Nowhere,” (see...
Mothering at Mid-Career: Another passage
I loved Susan O’Doherty’s blog post on the rite of “passagio” that she’s going through right now as her son...
Rites of Passagio
In singing, we differentiate between the "head voice" and the "chest voice." The chest voice is, for most of us...
Motherhood After Tenure: Super teachers, super mothers
Today a group of students in my Women in Literature class gave a presentation on the film, Mona Lisa Smile...
"No" means "No"
As a parent I think a lot about keeping my children safe. When they’re with me I do what I...
Mothering at Mid-Career: The Cruellest Month?
Dean Dad seems to agree with T.S. Eliot that “April is the cruellest month.” He’s got a point: just as...
Dear God, What About the Men?*
Bruce Thyer wrote in response to last week's post, "Men are rape victims also!...We should not ignore the problem of...