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prepping lessons, making to do list and trying to wrangle bfast/dressing for school

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11/18/09 5:01pm by feMOMhist
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this cludgy blog format find me at http://femomhist.blogspot.com/  Read more >

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11/18/09 1:17pm by feMOMhist
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MOM sandwiched in the middle of my other identitiesMOM pulled between the poles of my identity MOM holding the two together  (the greatest feminist challenge I have faced so far and surprisingly makes me a better historian)  Read more >

The lost art of gratitude

11/18/09 7:16am by feMOMhist
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  A fab book by my man Alexander McCall Smith, but also a truthful statement.  feMOMhist is sitting in a meeting now where several “people” have been thanked, but not by name.  WTF?  feMOMhist toils in relative obscurity and definite penury, but gratitude is FREE.  So MAN UP and offer recognition by NAME people. Ever noticed how once you start pondering something, you find evidence of it every where (zeitgeist anyone?)  Read more >

The First Thanksgiving or feMOMhist does Kindergarten

11/17/09 3:51am by feMOMhist
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feMOMhist is NOT loving how Thanksgiving is taught to children.Following a now infamous Columbus day debacle in which my five year old son came home proclaiming Columbus to be "the smartest and the bravest" (note 30 seconds of looking at a globe convinced him otherwise "Mom, why did he name them Indians?), feMOMhist volunteered to come into the Kindergarten classroom to discuss Thanksgiving.  Read more >

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Full Name
feMOMhist
Member Since
November 2009
About Me: 
feMOMhist is, as her neologistic screen name implies, a feminist mom historian. My blog explores the contradictions, conundrums, and just plain at times cumbersome life that results from these multiple identities.
Profession: 
professor of history
Location: 
Atlantic Seaboard
 

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