Comments on: Easter Chick in a Party Hat

By: latisha

latisha — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:42:23 +0000

i apologize for a second comment and this isnt really about your blog, but i just finished reading the new times article – all of it. i meant to only glance but it pulled me in.

its like you crawled inside my head and used all your talents to write how i was feeling. or maybe im just not that special afterall…

a few of my favorite parts:

but I had decided that being happy isn’t about where you are, it’s about who you are.
(after living in 3 cities abroad and 3 at home, at the ripe age of 27 my husband and i decided to stay put for a while coming to the same conclusion about looking for something we couldnt find).

“A place that attracts a lot of dreamers is a place that is setting itself up for a lot of disappointments.”

(living abroad did this for us. he put it so perfectly.)

i want to say thank you but it seems trite. the new times piece was just, well, awesome.

By: latisha

latisha — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:06:00 +0000

well here’s my super wise unsolicited very experienced mommy of 1 whole year commentary.

dont censor yourself too much. youll be sad when they grow up and dont have your cynical sense of humor. and you get all disconnected from each other when they realize you were never yourself around them.

By: fozmeadows

fozmeadows — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:30:52 +0000

It’s odd what you pick up from parents, and why. It occurred to me very recently that when I was a kid, I’d occasionally tease my mother by calling her fat, but that I started doing this, not because I actually thought she was fat (and she wasn’t), but because I heard her joke that she was fat enough times to conclude, mistakenly, that this was an acceptable observation for me to make, too, because if she said it about herself, then it must have been true. I was too young to understand that she was joking out loud as a way of warding off insecurity – if I can laugh at it, it doesn’t matter – but that when I echoed it, rather than being funny, I was actually providing some sort of external validation for her worry. Probably, it looked like childish objectivity and stung for that reason, but it wasn’t: I was just repeating what I’d heard, on the childish supposition that talking about adults the way they talked about themselves made me sound adult, too.

Point being, Annabelle may not have an opinion of her own Jewishness. She might just be echoing yours, hoping you’ll notice that she’s remembered what you say and think how adult she is for saying it like you do, or to see what reaction it gets.

By: Kittymama

Kittymama — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:59:45 +0000

We were just talking about the holiday “dry spell” we’re in now in the context of candy manufacturing — apparently Cadbury eggs are made year-round to keep up with once-a-year demand. But what if you had a factory that made seasonal candy only? You’d have to get way ahead during the summer for Halloween and Christmas; probably start Valentine’s Day in September; etc.

I lose a big part of my appetite in the hot weather; I don’t feel like solid food until the sun gets low, and then I seem to want bar snacks. So I guess I’m okay with summer not having a candy holiday.

By: starrlife

starrlife — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:48:59 +0000

Ahhh, self loathing can be a habit, even for utterly non-Jewish people like myself (although I did spend alot of my teens on Long Island,NY). Sorry to hear that you are afflicted but that must be what keeps me coming back for more- a sense of kindred spirit. I think we should be able to pick whatever holidays we want to celebrate like a menu choice! Even tho I grew up Catholic I still like the idea of Easter. It has deep roots beyond organized religion.

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:51:45 +0000

No 4th of July Rubbermaid? The 4th is my favorite holiday!! (Booze + fireworks = best holiday.)

Also, while I do love, love Portland, I think I can fairly say it’s just as annoying living in a city with a superiority complex….

By: Mental Momma

Mental Momma — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:53:50 +0000

It’s so funny because I have always secretly envied the Jewish girls, like it was some secret club with awesome sayings – Oy Vey- and the way you guys are i’mjewishyouwouldn’tunderstand. It seems so special. Weird, huh?