by Sasha Stone | Dec 12, 2015 | Blog 'em and Weep, FAMILY
Since we moved I’ve had to drive Emma to school every morning and every afternoon, which takes about an hour. At first I was annoyed. Interstate five is overcrowded with cargo trucks rattling down the congested highway, beater cars cutting in front of you every...
by Sasha Stone | Aug 13, 2013 | AGING, Blog 'em and Weep, KIDOME, TO MUSE
I remember when I first became a mother. I remember because I couldn’t let go of my baby. Literally. I held onto her for a full two weeks, I think, after a long and painful labor. I remember being challenged by the (now seeming simple) act of breastfeeding. I...
by Sasha Stone | May 12, 2012 | Blog 'em and Weep, TO BITCH
I was so disgusted when I saw the cover of TIME – meant only to shock and provoke – that it has brought me out of my semi-retirement from this blog. Boy, kind of thought this was a thing of the past, but lo! Our grotesque patriarchal society is alive and...
by Sasha Stone | Jun 11, 2010 | Blog 'em and Weep
I know that it is easy to get hysterical when a girl’s life is at stake. Indeed, many of us were worried that the 16 year-old Sunderland was put in harm’s way. There was even talk of child abuse charges for her parents. But of course, Abby is the second...
by Sasha Stone | Jun 10, 2010 | Blog 'em and Weep, KIDOME
Oh god. Whenever these dramas surface I try with all of my might to resist the temptation to indulge in yet another news story about a missing white girl. But here we are again, a missing white girl lost at sea. I guess what amazes me about the story is that Abby...
by Sasha Stone | May 9, 2010 | Blog 'em and Weep, FAMILY
Mother’s Day is the day we’re supposed to, as a people, spend money to, as Charles Foster Kane once said, “buy things.” We do this to prove our love because somewhere down the line we were taught that buying stuff equals love. We have to buy...