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Rocking the Cradle and Rocking the Boat: The Complicated Community of “Mommy Blogs”
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Rocking the Cradle and Rocking the Boat: The Complicated
Community of “Mommy Blogs”
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Kate Daniels, “In My Office at Bennington”
But then I hear the voices of my children…
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Kate Daniels, “In My Office at Bennington”
And I’m paper torn in half,
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Kate Daniels, “In My Office at Bennington”
the poem that didn’t work,the wrong words, sour sounds, ruptured rhythms, the confusionas to what was meant, what I actuallydesired besides those three small facesraised to my open window, callingmy name over and over, Mama?
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NYT, Review of Books, AO Scott 2006
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Mommy Blogs
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Infertility
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Boredom/Confessional
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Graphic Irreverance
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Humor/Survival of Child Abuse
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Single Parents
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Blogging as a radical act
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Dooce
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The Bathroom Redo
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