And decided that you’ve got to hand it to those Brits: They know how to wear hats. Could we bring back hats, in America, please? Posh? Can you help? More from The Angle on Boston.com here. Also: Yes, I bloody well woke up my six-year-old for the wedding because I thought she’d enjoy the pomp.Continue reading “Yes, bugger it, I watched the Royal Wedding.”
Monthly Archives: April 2011
The princess platform
IT’S TAKEN as a given in America that every girl aspires to be a princess. This is no surprise, given how much merchandise for girls is bejeweled, bedazzled, or marked with someone wearing a tiara. Whether girls aspire to be Kate Middleton is an entirely different question. Read the rest of the column from theContinue reading “The princess platform”
Boys, toes, and pink
THIS MONTH, I committed a couple of parental sins involving the scourge of nail polish. As I was painting my daughter’s toenails pink — buying into the culture of girlishness — my 2-year-old son wandered in and announced that he wanted his toes painted, too. I splashed yellow polish on one big toe before heContinue reading “Boys, toes, and pink”
Glory be: There ARE women interested in science!
So MIT learned, after it started looking for them. (Don’t read the comments if you don’t want to get depressed. Do read them if you want to see how far we still have to go.)
Why I will never be president of the PTO
AM I a terrible person for saying I no longer derive joy from volunteering in my daughter’s first grade class? I realized this last week as I was helping, for the 10th or 12th time, with a weekly enterprise known as “math games.’’ The class is divided into groups of six, who sit at tablesContinue reading “Why I will never be president of the PTO”
