November 23, 2010

Mean Mom’s Thank-You Time: What I’m Grateful for This Thanksgiving

Denise Schipani / 3 Comments / Uncategorized /

For some reason I’m feeling more squishy-sentimental than usual (I have this crazy dual-personality thing, which I claim to have inherited from my mom — hard-shell mean-mom exterior surrounding a gooey, nougat-y, cries-at-sappy-ads center.) So I figured it was time, it being just days shy of Thanksgiving, to make a little list. Thanksgiving is one […]

November 18, 2010

“The Middle”: A Sitcom Dad Actually Gets it Right

Denise Schipani / 9 Comments / bullying, family life, modern families, other parents, TV Moms (and Dads), Uncategorized / ABC TV, Bill Bixby, Bill Cosby, Eden Sher, Frankie Heck, mean girls, Mike Heck, Neil Flynn, Patricia Heaton, Sue Heck, The Middle /

So, I was going to write about homework this week, but that will have to wait, because an extraordinary thing happened last night, sometime between 8:00pm and 8:30pm, while I was watching the ABC-TV sitcom, “The Middle.” I say extraordinary because this involved a TV dad, who was not Bill Cosby or Bill Bixby (is […]

November 8, 2010

Men and Women, Work and Family: What Kind of Dad is a “Real Man”?

Denise Schipani / 12 Comments / family finances, family life, fathers and work, modern families, mothers and work / Andrew Romano and Tony Dokoupil, Joan C. Williams, Leonard Lopate, Men and work, Newsweek, NPR, paternity leave, WNYC.org /

Well, here we are again. By “we” I mean my family; and by “here” I mean with one of us out of a job. Several years ago, my husband left a job that was literally sucking the life out of him (thanks to a bullying boss and a badly-run organization, he lost: 15 lbs. and […]

Monthly Archives: November 2010

Mean Mom’s Thank-You Time: What I’m Grateful for This Thanksgiving

“The Middle”: A Sitcom Dad Actually Gets it Right

Men and Women, Work and Family: What Kind of Dad is a “Real Man”?