A mom and a stepmom share stories, ideas, friendship and family
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jul 28th, 2008
I have deer-in-the-headlight moments when meeting people with step-situations, too. Yesterday I met someone with a similar — but different — family set-up, and I couldn’t think of how to keep the conversation going. I found myself sitting there smiling blankly while thinking up things to say and then ruling them out because I couldn’t [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jul 17th, 2008
I’ll be at BlogHer this coming weekend.
If you’re going and would like to meet up, email me at jilldoughtie@gmail.com.
If it helps for folks planning to be there in person, here’s what I look like…
…when I’m wearing a helmet. But I won’t have a bike helmet on. I’m mostly posting this because it’s got a picture [...]
Posted in Communication on Feb 26th, 2008
Back in the early days when Kathy and I weren’t getting along, I read her blog a lot. A lot. And her book, too.
A stepmom blogger recently found from watching her blog stats that her stepkids’ mom was reading her blog, and that she was visiting the blogs of the stepmoms she linked to. [...]
Posted in Links on Jan 16th, 2008
Marketplace: Lessons for Iran’s working woman – This segment mentions in passing an unusual and heartwarming arrangement than an Iranian mom and stepmom worked out.
Hindsight, Relationships & Looking Inside Me: The Sub – a poem about what it can feel like sometimes to be the stepmom (by way of The Wicked Stepmom)
37days: F is for [...]
Posted in Movies, TV & music on Jan 14th, 2008
I laughed out loud in the theater when I saw Enchanted’s evil stepmom emerging from the sewer wagging her tongue in and out of her mouth and shooting green lightning bolts from her fingertips. She’s so over the top that she looks like she’s there to poke fun at the Disney stereotype. And based [...]
Posted in Stories on Nov 23rd, 2007
The day before Thanksgiving, Kathy and Jack and I went to see Enchanted together. Susan Sarandon plays a very evil stepmother, and when she emerged from the sewer shooting green lightning out of her fingertips and wagging her tongue, Jack reached over Kathy, patted me on the knee and said, “Don’t worry Jill. That’s not [...]
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