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  • Going to the movies without going broke

    Remember the days when you just needed patience and a dollar to see a movie? Well now all you need is patience and five dollars! Kerosotes Theaters have this nifty club ingeniously called, The Five Buck Club. I read about it on Gapers Block a few months ago, filled out the application, and within a week or so, my member card showed up in the mail. ...
    Posted to The Red Thread (Weblog) by Veronica Arreola on January 23, 2008
  • How much sex ed and when?

    For the record, I'm not supporting anyone in the 2008 election at this point. I'm watching, reading, and trying to decide between a few candidates. I am voting for a Democrat, but occasionally like what I hear from a few GOP candidates. Today thou is a whole 'nother story. In today's The Swamp, Sen. Obama rips into former-MA Gov. ...
    Posted to The Red Thread (Weblog) by Veronica Arreola on July 19, 2007
  • Do we owe it to each other to work outside the home?

    The dreaded ''Mommy Wars'' usually pits working moms against stay at home moms. It took the genius of Sylvia Ann Hewitt and Linda Hirshman to top it off with a dollop of guilt. Hewitt began the baby panic with her 2002 book castigating us career gals with not having babies before we hit our ancient 30s. My all time favorite response was from ...
    Posted to The Red Thread (Weblog) by Veronica Arreola on July 16, 2007
  • Media, Myth, and Murder

    What does the Mommy Wars, the Summer of the Shark, and the Summer of Stranger Abductions have in common? All creations of the mainstream media. The facts are that most women who have children flow in and out of the workforce and even those who are classified as stay-at-home run businesses (Avon, Tupperware) or are freelance ...
    Posted to The Red Thread (Weblog) by Veronica Arreola on July 8, 2007
  • Baby Love - Book Review

    When do you know when you are ready to have a baby? That question is fundamental to today's women. We have so many choices that it is overwhelming. A few years ago Sylvia Ann Hewlett tried to scare us all into getting pregnant by stating that if we're not pregnant by 27, our best eggs are gone! In her memoir, Baby Love, Rebecca Walker ...
    Posted to The Red Thread (Weblog) by Veronica Arreola on March 28, 2007
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