Entries by Tracee

Housekeeping Paraphernalia

by Tracee Sioux Mommy, can I have that Kid’s Washer & Dryer by Little Colorado for Christmas? No way. You don’t need to pretend to do laundry. If you want to do laundry, you can do it for real. I promise there will be plenty of opportunities for laundry when you grow up. I don’t […]

Not Nameless Faceless Kids – Hers

I read this blog about a mother’s struggle to insure her special needs children – the real kind – in our current insurance system. Her child is being dropped because the insurance company isn’t making any money off insuring her. Basically once they are in the high risk pool, normal insurance will never cover them […]

Balancing Act

by Tracee Sioux How does this sound? Paid family leave so no mother has to go back to work days after giving birth, Public universal pre-school, Major investments in child care so having a child is no longer the top reason American families have “a poverty spell”, After school programs for all kids who need […]

Smoke Out

by Tracee Sioux I can hardly wait for New Year’s Eve to come because I never have to put “Quit Smoking – for real this time” on my list of resolutions again. I can move on to getting organized and saving my receipts so I can deduct them. The best thing about this year is […]

So Totally Ana

by Tracee Sioux I’m reading this little book called Bergdorf Blonds by Plum Sykes where I’m seeing the word ana. As in you’re looking totally ana, you must be deliriously happy. Ana is short for anorexia and is considered the best thing to be. It’s not just appearing in trashy hip-chick lit, it’s appearing on […]

Seven Random and Weird Things

In response to a meme by Marjorie at 280 Main Street. A meme is what bloggers do if they like you – yea! It’s like blogger approval. I’m digging that. I was on the front page of the newspaper in Lithuania. I was teaching English there. It was considered improper for women to smoke on […]

Blond Ambition

by Tracee Sioux When you write about issues effecting daughters, you put a lot of thought into personal action that might not have carried much meaning before. For instance, having written that women should consider how their daughters will feel before reconstructing perceived flaws through surgery in My Face/Her Face I have to wonder how […]

Gender Bias In Science

There are very few women in science and technology fields because: A) Girls can’t do well in math and science subjects. B) Science and Tech Fields are misogynistic Good Old Boys Clubs. C) All men hate women. D) Women just don’t care about math and science – they care about fashion and babies. E) Teachers, […]

Bad Word

by Tracee Sioux Mommy, Kinsey called me a bad word! Oh no. What did she call you? Tracee! So this is what bad mother Karma feels like. I so wish I had been nicer to my mother. Where once my main goal in life was to not become my mother, I now realize there are […]

Girl Drama

by Tracee Sioux Am I the only mother who actually cried when I realized my daughter would have to experience the trauma of junior high school? I now realize that was silly of me – girl drama starts much earlier now. In preschool I got my first taste of it when her BFF Maddy didn’t […]

How Do You Spell Zac Efron?

by Tracee Sioux I found myself facing a modern-day dilemma when my 6-year-old daughter, Ainsley, started surfing the net. I suppose in my mind it I thought it would go something like this: My 10-year-old daughter would come to me and say, Mom, I need to do a report in school. Is it okay if […]

Commercial Free Childhood

Have you been over to the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood? It’s a non-profit activist organization on the side of NOT selling our kids out. Which, until recently I thought was a given, but apparently that was naive. Now, I pretty much think that unless people get LOUD in the face of advertisers they’ll […]