Entries by Tracee

Kardashians & Girls Gone Wild

By Tracee Sioux Keeping Up With the Kardashians is another E! television series which makes me want to . . . what? It’s so depraved, I’m at a loss. Lets start with worst mother on the planet (at least on television) – Kris Kardashian. This woman has phone conversations with the Girls Gone Wild President, […]

Pornification of Halloween

by Tracee Sioux Halloween has become S-E-X-Y. But, then so has innocence. If you deconstruct these costumes what about them becomes inappropriate? The pose? The make-up? The quantity of clothing? I think it’s the porn-star quality. Let’s face it this photograph from a Newsweek article, titled Eye Candy, about how sexy girls’ costumes have become. […]

Self Portrait of a Housewife

This is a self portrait of a 1950s housewife. What do you see? Thank You to my friend Cindy for allowing me to print her mother’s work.

Birth Certificate Blanks

Guess whose name is not on Zack’s birth certificate? Mine. In New York, after Ainsley’s birth, when I filled out the form I noticed there was only one blank for Mother’s Maiden Name, so I had the presence of mind to put my current legal name in the blank. (If you’ll recall I legally changed […]

Sharks v. Happy Feet

By Tracee Sioux Good Job! You can do it! Get that ball! You’re not afraid of her. Good try. It’s alright. It’s okay to lose sometimes. I saw you run really hard after that ball. Did you try hard and have fun? That’s what’s important! I’m so proud of you. ———————————————————————————- Attack! Attack! Watch the […]

Fashion Police (I mean, Policy)

This is what Ainsley wore to school yesterday. If you don’t get up right now I’m picking your clothes, I tell her. She leaps out of bed every time. What’s your fashion policy?

Math Retarded

by Tracee Sioux I am math retarded, I heard myself say in the car with my three-year-old daughter and my husband. We were quarreling about my refusal to participate in our family finances. When kids are born they don’t really understand so you can get away with shouting the F word or hissing a satisfying […]

Hairspray

By Tracee Sioux I took my kids and my Grandma to see Hairspray (Full-Screen Edition) at the $1 movie. What a great family flick. Well, I’m not sure my grandma appreciated the subject matter (she’s still not completely sure integration is going to work out.) There’s the obvious message about race and integration. But, beneath […]

News Ban

by Tracee Sioux Ten years ago I had the privilege of living in Lithuania for half a year. I was teaching English at a teacher’s college. They were a very young democracy having attained their status only after the collapse of the Soviet Union. One day I saw an image of a dead bloody pregnant […]

Roloffs & Gosselins

By Tracee Sioux My two favorite family television shows just revved up again on TLC Mondays with Jon & Kate plus 8 and Little People, Big World. Little People, Big World is about Amy and Matt Roloff. They are little people or dwarfs. They have three average height children and one dwarf child. Jon & […]

Seventeen Body Peace Treaty

By Tracee Sioux Seventeen Magazine and Dove are asking girls to sign a Body Peace Treaty to encourage better body image and self esteem in their readership. I vow to: * Remember that the sun will still rise tomorrow even if I had one too many slices of pizza or an extra scoop of ice […]

B-R-A-V-E

by Tracee Sioux I’m scared. Of course you’re scared. Brave means you do something even though you’re scared. You’re B-R-A-V-E, Brave. You always have been. I’m afraid you’ll let go of me. Well, I already let go of you and guess what? You rode the bike. You know how to do this. It’s about balance. […]