Photo credit: Photo bywesty559 on Flickr When my son becomes overwhelmed -- whether from the stress of a trip to the grocery store or simply from routine end-of-the-day hunger and tiredness -- he lets out a high pitched shriek. And usually not just one, he emits them periodically: sometimes one after another, very rapidly, or [...]
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Recovery Nerds on The Incredible Hulk
Whew! Summer has its plusses and minuses. Among the plusses: Summer movie season. Among the minuses: Kids out of school means no time to blog about summer movie season. This past weekend, Mark and I left our kids in the care of our wonderful babysitter, who, next to The Junky's Wife is the love of [...]
Sex Addict Action Figure Fun
I stumbled across this video at The Junky's Wife's blog when I noticed she'd added YouTube advertising and started poking around to see what that was about. My husband and I watched it and laughed so hard we cried, but it, um, appeals to our particular nerdy senses of humor. While no porn is shown, [...]
Confident in her Sexuality
This post is the first in a series on women and sexuality in our culture, which will touch on (Velvet Verbosity, are you paying attention?) the long awaited topic of porn (though they will swing broader, because that's the way my mind rolls). This particular post is about wedding dress marketing, and before I start [...]
Cartoon Nerds on Speed Racer
Have I mentioned lately that I love summer movie season? Not since last week? Ok, I love summer movie season! And this weekend my husband and I went to see Speed Racer, a special film for us, since our mutual love of the original cartoon was one of the things that made us fall wide-eyed [...]
Recovery Nerds on Iron Man
It's my favorite time of year: summer movie season! My husband and I love few things more than a summer blockbuster. This year, to ensure that we didn't miss a spectacular moment and yet had a smooth decision making process, we each gave numerical ratings to the hottest upcoming movies and tallied up the averages [...]
Happy Birthday, Blog!
Photo credit: Photo by PinkCakeBox on Flickr I am proud to announce that A Room of Mama's Own is now one whole year old. Yep, this blog was born with my very first post a year ago today. And oh, how it has grown (as babies will). I've written nearly every day for a year [...]
Haikuing about Meme
Mantra didn't -- well,almost, thought about, sort oftagging me with this... What I was doing 10 years ago Newly married andworking customer service.I bought my first car. 5 years ago Pregnant, with two words --autism and addiction --looming before me. 1 year ago Trying to forgetand remember who I wasI started a blog. Yesterday The [...]
Choices
Finally! My followup on life, the universe and Silda Spitzer's choices.This is also posted at Two Women Blogging. Photo credit: Photo byshadowfax the second on Flickr My husband and I were having a discussion once about life, the universe and everything (not the book, although we've been known to discuss that too, but actual life, [...]
Circles within Circles (or Understanding the Stars — and Eliot Spitzer)
Three weeks ago, Eliot Spitzer was Governor of New York and the model of an upstanding citizen. Two weeks ago, he became embroiled in scandal and admitted to hiring prostitutes. The media was all over the story: less dissecting it, than tearing it apart like a school of piranha. It boiled up and died down, [...]
