>I like reviewing books, products, websites and whatever else comes my way, but it’s never felt like a great fit for this site. So I’ve started a little spin-off venture called Suburban Turmoil Reviews, where I can dish on stuff to my heart’s content. Yeah, it looks exactly like this site, but this is where […]

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October 15, 2006

>My Shallower Side.

> People always say the members of my family look a lot alike, and you know, I think they have a point… It comes from my grandmother’s side of the family. Happy weekend!

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October 13, 2006

>Family Resemblance

>Whew. The pageant mom discussion had gone so well that I wanted to give the Green Hills Moms Club a chance to get out their gripes and perhaps engage in a little friendly playgroup debate. Um, that didn’t go so well, did it? Regardless, I obviously stand by every word of what I wrote about […]

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October 12, 2006

>The Morning After

Hey, remember that column I wrote last week about my problems finding a playgroup to call my own? Part of it detailed my experience attending a Green Hills Moms Club event (Green Hills, for those of you outside Nashville, is one of Nashville’s wealthiest neighborhoods) and feeling both a little bored and a little out […]

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October 11, 2006

Moms Club Throwdown

> Show some love at Mamarazzi. For me or Madonna. It’s your choice.

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October 11, 2006

>Mamarazzi Time

>As a girl growing up in the South, I went on a lot of retreats. It seemed like every group I was part of held a retreat, from my school singing group to my church youth group to my cheerleading squad. When I was on them, I thought nothing of sleeping in dorm rooms or […]

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October 9, 2006

>Retreat!

>Today, I am doing the unthinkable. I am leaving town for a women’s retreat (Madness, I know, I don’t really understand why I agreed to do it myself because I really don’t like large groups of women for the obvious reason that they might gang up and scratch my eyes out) and for the next […]

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October 5, 2006

>Sheer Madness

Choosing the right playgroup is crucial to a toddler’s future social prospects. At least, that’s what some of the kids’ moms would have you believe. In this week’s Nashville Scene, Baby and I attempted to explore Nashville’s widely varied playgroup scene, with disastrous results. The full text of the column is here… A Playgroup of […]

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October 4, 2006

A Playgroup of One’s Own

On a brightly lit Nashville stage once upon a time, four men shook their hips to raucous music while an audience of young mothers screamed and swooned and waved their arms in desperate supplication. As one of the men leaped into the audience and ran up an aisle, a small horde of women followed, flashing […]

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October 3, 2006

Every Mom Needs a Little Wiggle Room

> It’s that time of the month again. No, not that time of the month, silly. It’s Perfect Post Award time, a day when bloggers give other bloggers props for great posts written during the preceding month. This month, my award goes to a woman who I think is one of the most amazing writers […]

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October 2, 2006

>The Perfect Post Awards