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Happy Mothers Day!
I feel so bad for all of you out there today trying to convince your mom that she is “the world’s best” or the “#1 Mom” – it’s going to be an uphill struggle for you this Mother’s Day because MY mother is in fact the World’s Awesomest Most #1 Mom That There Is. That’s right – my mom is Anne Taintor and I am thrilled to be a guest blogger on her website today!
You might think that Anne Taintor is some kind of vacuum-abhorring, kitchen-allergic modern woman and while that may be true, what she “lacks” in domesticity she more than makes up for with love, affection, support, inspiration and humor. A woman who can laugh at 50’s-era misogyny can laugh at just about anything, let me tell you.
Although Anne Taintor did in fact put dinner on the table every night during my childhood I figured out very young that if I wanted any homemade pies and cakes I would have to learn to bake – which I did! Baking is still my lifelong passion and I thank my mom for inspiring me to learn. I am actually the secret-writer of “say it with carbohydrates” (available on this delicious, er, handy shopping bag). The glee on that woman’s face as she proudly lifts that cake only begins to approach my level of obsession with all things baked.
But one of the things I am most grateful to my mom for is not forcing me to bake my own treats, but inspiring me with her hard work and commitment to her business which she started at our kitchen table and grew into a worldwide cultural phenomenon. I grew up always knowing that I could be anything I wanted, that I could start my own business and succeed, that women were powerful, and that I could flawlessly combine motherhood with awesomeness. If there are better lessons for a young lady to learn at her mother’s knee I don’t know what they are.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank my mom for the best childhood ever and the best mothering ever. And Mom would like me to remind you that there is free shipping on her site through midnight tonight. And yes, I will be spending Mother’s Day in the kitchen today, because that’s where I really love to be. Happy Mother’s Day everyone!
just us sluts…
I am delighted that so many of you enjoy “I enjoy being a slut.” I wrote that one back in 1998. Mr. Limbaugh may very well have called women sluts before then, but if he did I was blissfully unaware of it. No… the design was not inspired by Mr. Limbaugh or by the current brouhaha. It was inspired, as is so much of my work, by frustration with self-satisfied gender-stereotyping misogynistic blowhards. By frustration with men whose sense of their own strength is predicated upon their ability to control women, particularly, it seems, their sexuality. All of them. Be they Republicans, Democrats, or Independents.
That said, Mr. Limbaugh did inspire me to dig this design out of the archives.
I realize I conceded the moral high ground when I called Mr. Limbaugh a turd. In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. Frank Bruni put it so much more elegantly this morning in his op-ed piece in the NYTimes: “Rush Limbaugh fished tired epithets from a misogynistic toilet; advertisers proceeded to flush him.”
The rest of the article, in which “mistakes were made”:
Meet Jane Benson!
Jane and Andrew
Jane Benson and I e-met two and a half years ago when she contacted me to inquire about writing for me. It wasn’t until this past summer, though, when we finally met face-to-face, that we knew unequivocally that we had been separated at birth.
You Can’t Always Get What You Want…
… unless, of course, you’re me. And this is what I want:
For the last few months I’ve been finding it harder and harder to reconcile myself with the fact that caption contest runners-up get zippo. So I’ve decided to change the rules. As we approach holiday shopping season, the timing seems perfect for a little low-key largesse, so starting with the October runners-up (sorry all you runners-up from September, August, July…) runners-up will receive $20 gift certificates to our e-store. It’s not lot, but fortunately our products are very reasonably priced. So forget about five golden rings and think magnets… or lip balm… or coin purses… or…
Mean to Men
I truly appreciate you all – especially you men – trying to convince me that I’m not mean. But if I am to be completely honest, perhaps I am just the teensiest bit mean to men. I take comfort in the fact that I’m equally mean, or perhaps even more mean, to women. I love women, and I love men… I just seem to have a slight personality disorder.
This might be a good time to reveal that yes, indeed, we do have male writers. Check out these wonderful magnetic postcards from Ron Lavine, Marc Bouchard, and my brilliant buddy Gary Briggs.
Thanks, guys!
