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Posted in International, Parenting, Relationships, Religion, Sex, Society, Television, Women on Oct 20th, 2011
Reality TV has foisted a great number of ugly things on us – step forward, Big Brother and Jersey Shore – but it still remains the best way to journey into somebody else’s life in a totally new way. Thanks to reality TV, those of us who are a bit ‘curious’ (or nosey, as some [...]
Posted in Family, Guest Posters, Parenting, Technology on Oct 18th, 2011
Lots of people’s lives were changed by Steve Jobs – but Lisa Domican, the mother of two autistic children, has a special reason to thank him. I was terribly sad to hear of the passing of Steve Jobs last Thursday. And before you ask – yes, I read about it on the Twitter App on [...]
Posted in Education, Guest Posters, Parenting on Oct 17th, 2011
I participated in the recent protest in Dublin about cutbacks to Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) in schools, bringing with me half a dozen eggs with the intention of lobbing them at the front door of the Central Bank on Dame Street. In the event it didn’t seem right to do that in front of the [...]
Posted in Family, Guest Posters, Parenting, Personal on Oct 7th, 2011
Is there anything that doesn’t have its own occasion these days? Daffodil Day, Arthur’s Day, Heritage Week, Book Week, Culture Night even Fish ‘n’ Chip day. Some of these are awareness raising, some are nothing more than marketing ploys. They seem to work in that the public masses go out of their way to focus [...]
Posted in All About My Mother, Anti-Heroines, Blast From the Past, Family, Feminism, Parenting, Personal, Relationships, Women on Sep 30th, 2011
A note from the editors: This is the first in a new regular series of posts, All About My Mother, in which Anti-room writers reflect on the women who made them the women they are today. Some are their own biological mothers, some are not. But all are important. This month my mum turned 70. [...]
Posted in Family, Guest Posters, Parenting on Sep 28th, 2011
My introduction to motherhood was drastically different to what I expected, imagined and dreamed of whilst pregnant. I was always fairly easy going about my pregnancy, with a hope for a more natural birth but a realistic understanding that I might want to be pumped full of pain-killers if I needed to. The one thing [...]
Posted in Humour, Music, Parenting, Personal on Sep 26th, 2011
Last week was the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’, which I mostly celebrated by not feeling a need to wear all my dad’s clothes at once or thrash around my bedroom in a hormonal rage. I did listen to it, though, just to see what it sounds like now. The lyrics seem a little confusing, [...]
Posted in Domestic, Economics, Family, Parenting, Personal, Rants, Travel, Work on Aug 9th, 2011
Type emigration into google and hit images… guess whose pictures come up en masse? Oh hell yeah, the Irish, a fantastic group of prematourists. We’re very good at it, and I for one am delighted to say Yes I can! This year’s Christmas card will feature my good self stood in front of a threadbare [...]
Posted in Family, Guest Posters, Parenting, Personal on Aug 5th, 2011
I was a post-Magdalene’s baby, I guess. Born out of wedlock, to parents who had little in common other than a shared flush of romantic stupidity, in a time when it was neither socially acceptable to procreate prematurely nor to hand one’s errant daughter over to hatchet-faced nuns. A decade older, and I might have [...]
I cried today. Not in sorrow but in anger. Those hot, prickly tears that you can feel behind your eyes before they start to drop. The reason was guilt. Or rather anger at someone poking at the residual well of maternal guilt which is all to easy to access. The conversation was well-intentioned – the [...]
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