Comments on: Bell Jar blues

By: Another Jenn

Another Jenn — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:36:39 +0000

Hang in there, dear Jenn! One day soon I know you’ll have the energy to slip that damned Skeeball ticket pusher a wicked dose of polonium 210. In the meantime, you go easy on your beautiful self, ya hear?

By: Mom101

Mom101 — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:08:07 +0000

Ya know, when I think of all the parenting role models out there, Sylvia Plath just doesn’t spring to mind. But you’re all creative-like, that way.

By: geogirl

geogirl — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:17:55 +0000

Put the Plath down…..step away from the Plath….

By: nolamom

nolamom — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:01:46 +0000

I know what you mean about wanting to stick your head in the oven, but it’s not over my girls, it’s my mother. Oh for one like Mater, kudos dear mom and Babs. It is hard to think about the future when the present has us so bogged down, and the past haunts us, but I try to think of things I can do with my girls now, that in 10 yrs, we will still be talking about them. Be brave fellow mom, and do partake of some wine, it is great for your health, mental and otherwise.

By: CrankMama

CrankMama — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:16:14 +0000

You need a break, sis, a nice relaxing date with the hubs or a run or a walk with a good girlfriend…

Sylvia was a tortured but gifted soul (as was Anne Sexton)… What’s with all the gifted mom poets who committed suicide?

By: Fold My Laundry Please

Fold My Laundry Please — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:56:34 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving!

By: Hamlet Hamletson

Hamlet Hamletson — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:40:09 +0000

NOW is over reated. Well, maybe not so much as then was, when it was NOW. Or is that then? You need a thrilling onion.

By: Spot the Wonder Dog

Spot the Wonder Dog — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:31:15 +0000

No, you’re thinking of a regrettable situation that periodically occurs in minivans on winter days when it’s too cold to roll down the window.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:42:27 +0000

I’m with you–I wonder if the colder weather and waning light has anything to do with it? I don’t even get any good writing out of feeling like crap.

Spot the Wonder Dog: I totally read that as “boxed fart.” I took it as a milder alternative to the head in the oven. And then I wondered why on earth anyone would suggest that.

And then I learned how to read.

By: veronica

veronica — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:46:04 +0000

Yes. I had the penetrating thought a few days back, “But I can’t kill myself. Our life insurance isn’t paid up.” Crazy parenting to live by, indeed.

As for aging gracefully – I tried an anti-aging cream this week and it caused me to break out in awful junior-high acne. Not quite the anti-aging effect I was looking for. Or maybe it was some Calvinist lesson on vanity.