Snow White Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Essentially what the cover of PEOPLE magazine--you can find it on the newsstand-- says is "Bristol Palin: Knocked Up but Not Knocked Down."

Is that really a theme song we want the teen girls of America to be singing? Read More

No matter how hard I worked to provide right answers, or how devotedly I tried to jump through hoops, some looked at me with unbridled contempt. I overdid it; I wanted too much. Understand this: it is not that I wanted too much of it--but that I wanted it too much.

I was too eager, too needy. So they pushed me away.

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Have you ever met an interesting person who declared, without hesitation, “My Mom? She was the happiest woman you could ever meet.” No, all intelligent children believe their mothers to be, at best, unfulfilled and, at worst, miserable, depressed, competitive, angry individuals who should be diagnosed with a borderline-personality disorder.

Put it this way: nobody COOL ever had a happy mother.

Yet few mothers have ever described themselves, at least in public, as  “wildly unhappy” about their assigned role as “mom.”

Line up the numbers and the meaning is clear: somebody is lying. Read More

Did you ever think you would look truly excellent in a very big hat?

You're not alone.

(Okay, maybe you are, but at least you'll discover that you're not the only one who's thought about these fourteen weird points.) Read More