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Getting Married and Living Apart is Like Drinking Non-Alcoholic Wine

January 26, 2011

For over a year now, I’ve been reading trend pieces about how more and more married couples are choosing to live apart for a variety of reasons.  Some are because of the economy. But some are because of careers that could easily be compromised. For the people that live apart by choice as opposed to circumstance,  I have to ask: are these people out of their f*$%^*# minds? Living apart while married is one of the hardest things I have ...

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Life is not fair. If it were, I would be having my eggs peeled for me at Downton Abbey right now.

January 24, 2011

The absolute best thing to do when one is cold, alone, and without the comforts of Nutella to aid one’s diet is to warm up a nice spot of tea and watching hot British people in the 1920s be assholes to each other. Luckily for one (me), a series that has already aired in Britain has just made its way over to America: Downton Abbey .  I love watching shows about class relations, history, and pretty hats, so I’ve been ...

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Let’s Navel-Gaze about Our Names!

January 13, 2011

Let’s take a break from talking about OMGAsianMoms and do something fun. source. Yesterday as I was snowed in, I came across this thread which asks the question: what were you going to be named? To date, it has 640 comments which means it’s struck a nerve, and I can completely understand.  Names are important for a number of reasons and many cultures, including Judaism, believe that a name will shape a child’s destiny.  Which is why I, as a Victoria, ...

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Chinese Mothers and Russian Mothers Go Together Like Mao and Stalin (When they Were Besties, not before they had a falling out)

January 11, 2011

source. I have no children, so I am obviously a parenting expert.   And my parenting expertise tells me that Amy Chua, of the Mao Disciplinary Style Chuas, is onto something I’ve been struggling to articulate when talking to American-born friends about my upbringing. In her humblebrag post, “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,”, designed to engineer enough controversy to ensure a reasonable first printing of her book and dibs on 4-star hotels at a future book tour, Chua outlines Chinese parenting ...

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The Worst/Best Thanksgiving Poem Ever

November 24, 2010

Art from Julia Rothman. Thanksgiving – a strictly American meal With apples to cobbler and squashes to peel With green beans and pudding and  fancy red wines With unpronounceable things like aubergines Thanksgiving done thus is a Russian kid’s dream But in floats holodetz,  and you want to scream. Instead of  the stuffing and biscuts and pie Surprise! It’s oliviye and you want to cry. What’s that on the plate?! Is it penne ala vodka?? Oh no, God forbid, it’s selyodka. And ...

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