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  1. Girl in Translation Earned My Admiration

    5/17/11 9:30am by slouching mom
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    I am just about the same age as is Jean Kwok, the author of Girl in Translation. And she and I both spent our preteen and teen years in New York City. But every day after school I came home to a comfortable apartment, where I did homework in my own bedroom, a room filled with books and toys and all manner of school supplies, and where at six or so every evening I was called to dinner, at which there was always enough food. More than enough. My mother always prepared for twice the number of people dining as there actually were. Jean Kwok? Or Kimberly, the name of her alter in Girl in Translation? After school every day she travels by subway to Chinatown to join her mother in her never-ending work at a sweatshop.  Read more >

  2. When I Was 10, I Paid the Bills

    2/22/11 4:00pm by slouching mom
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    Paying Bills

    It started when we -- my mother, brother, and I -- moved into an apartment. Up until that point we'd been living with my grandmother, and my mother hadn't had to be financially responsible for nearly ten years. (In truth, she'd never had to be financially responsible. In truth, she'd never had to be responsible.) She'd divorced my father and come to live with her mother, and there we'd stayed, through weeks that unnoticed and unmarked turned into months, then years.  Read more >

  3. Boys Have Body Image Issues, Too

    3/12/10 7:00am by slouching mom
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    Bicep

    Eight looks down at his legs, made pale and shimmery by the bath water.  He frowns.  "See my legs, here?" he asks.  And he points to his thighs, squeezes a bit of flesh.  "I do see them," I say."They are fat," he pronounces, certain as a policeman who stands, arms crossed, at your car door and demands your license.I protest.  "They are NOT.  At the doctor's you're always in the fiftieth percentile for weight -- just where you should be."  Read more >

Sarah Piazza

Full Name
Sarah Piazza
Member Since
March 2007
About Me: 

Sarah Piazza blogs at Slouching Past 40.  She is a freelance writer and Manhattanite born and bred (well, technically bred only -- she was born in Iran, which is a story in and of itself) who is currently living in a college town in Pennsylvania. She has adjusted, albeit reluctantly, to small-town life. She will admit to hoping that one day she won't run into at least three or four people she knows while shopping at the grocery store.

Sarah's two boys are Thirteen and Nine. Her husband is a professor, and the family is rounded out by the recent addition of Oscar, the bad luck (all black) cat.

Something that might surprise you about Sarah:  She can recite the first twelve lines of The Canterbury Tales in Middle English.

Feel free to contact Sarah at slouchingmom AT gmail DOT com.

 

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