Recent(ish) Clips 4
"There's More Than One Way to Make A Democrat"
Story about how I turned my oldest, Olivia, into a staunch Democrat and almost ruined one of her friendships in the process. A longer version of this story, now titled “How to Make a Democrat from Scratch,” will appear in the anthology The Maternal is Political, due out from Seal Press in 2008.
The Huffington Post
July 21, 2006
Reference to my Democrat story in the blog The Unbearable Heaviness of Being.
"Baby
Name Zeitgeist"
Story about how Tom and I bungled the naming of most of our
daughters. Depending on when you see this, there may still be
a reader comment about how diary-like and self-referential I sound,
which is not about me but is a reference to some Huffington
Post infighting involving a pharmaceutical executive who
was ejected for his online raving. Not that I'm defensive about
reader comments.
The Huffington Post
June 23, 2006
Reference to my Baby Name Zeitgeist piece in Gina
Smith's blog. Scroll down to June 23rd. My friend Gina Smith
is an anchor for MSNBC. Her new show is called Tech
Tour Across America — check it out.
"Tot TV"
KQED Public Radio "Perspective" about what a rotten mommy I am for letting my toddler watch TV. Did you know that KQED Public Radio has more listeners than any other public radio station in the U.S. — in fact, more than any public radio station in history? No, I didn't know that either. The editor told me. KQED Public Radio
June 15, 2006
"The
Truth Seeker"
Profile of Bay Area author and teacher Margo Perin, whose criminal
father kept her family on the run while she was growing up. Click
here to read Alison Biggar's introduction to the article in
her editor's note.
The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine
April 30, 2006
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