The Americans, Ida and Child’s Pose: All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. I like good TV programs. I’ve watched several series with a lot of enthusiasm. However, if quality serial television ceased to exist, I would be more than fine. This is why I was surprised to …
I love being Huck’s mom. But I don’t really love being a parent. Strangely these two feelings exist simultaneously without canceling each other out.
Huck and have been dealing with that perennial scourge of school children. And I was thinking…
I’m continuing to kick around my idea for a screwball comedy (tentatively titled) “Not Without My Grandson” The idea is loosely inspired the serious situation in the Iranian film Lelia. In that film a young couple are dealing with infertility. Because it is the woman who is infertile the mother of the man starts putting …
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I used to say if I ever had a kid it would happen in the way it happened to Gloria Swenson, in the Cassevettes film Gloria. I’d acquire the kid by some twist of fate — like a mob hit. However, my partner is a woman so when we our son was born it wasn’t exactly …
I’ve been thinking about making this tile puzzle for a while now. So this is now the start of it…
Taken in 2008. Kind of summed up my feelings about motherhood at the time.