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Monthly Archives May 2008

Clinton cried, Pfleger lied

I had never heard of Father Michael Pfleger until I saw Hugh Hewitt’s blog post, but he made a memorable first impression in his sermon (Obama campaign speech?) at Trinity Church in Chicago.
At one point he mocked Hillary Clinton’s now famous campaign trail tears, sobbing loudly and theatrically into a handkerchief. This was rather […]

Posted 30 May 2008 † Brigette Russell § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Motherhood as battleground: Alice and Rebecca Walker

This story appeared yesterday on my friend Patrick O’Hannigan’s blog, The Paragraph Farmer, but my friend Martha Brozyna, medieval historian and author of a recently published book on stock trading, had already sent me the link to the Daily Mail article.
In it, 38-year-old Rebecca Walker blames her famous mother, author Alice Walker, for very nearly […]

Posted 25 May 2008 † Brigette Russell § Feminism § Parenthood ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

The Myth of Ageless Motherhood

On Mother’s Day, a story called “Ageless Motherhood” dominated the front page of my local paper, the Santa Fe New Mexican. The cover photo featured Joyce Bond, 53, with two of the triplets she recently bore. Births to women over 40 are “soaring” according to the article, with the birth rate to women […]

Posted 20 May 2008 † Brigette Russell § Feminism § Parenthood § Santa Fe ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,

Does the world really need another new blog?

I’ve asked myself that question for several years now, hesitant to join the countless multitudes already offering their unsolicited opinions on everything under the sun. Probably not, but I wanted to start one anyway. After all, what makes my unsolicited opinions any more superfluous than anyone else’s?
So why didn’t I? For one […]

Posted 19 May 2008 † Brigette Russell § Personal § Santa Fe ‡ Comments (1) °