About this Burbia Blogger
- added on 01/23/2008
Linda Keenan
Linda Keenan worked 7 years as a head writer/senior producer for various programs on CNN. Before that, she worked as a writer/producer for Bloomberg TV. She now writes satire, primarily about parenting culture, at www.thoroughlymodernmommy.blogspot.com . Seen here is Linda's thoroughly modern Mommy in the late 1940's.
Blogs by Linda Keenan
The barrier between myself and the mom next door is both literal and metaphorical. The metaphor-
ical part became clear when my husband and I barreled over into their backyard (she is actually catty-corner to us), shortly after we moved in. I'm a stay at home Mom; she isn't. She seemed to brighten, however, when I
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There's no grandeur to the tidy, unremarkable Windsor Ridge Apartments, where I lived a few years ago before buying my first house. No Statue of Liberty, surely, just a dreary water tower stating "Westborough", surrounded by ghostly corporate parks. But drive in Windsor Ridge and you'll meet the Americans-in-training ...read more.
"I've heard they are busing in OLD PEOPLE..." my friend said, and I should say that when she said "old people," she did so in a loud Irish whisper, so loud in fact that even old people with hearing aids could probably pick up what she was saying. We were on our way to vote Yes for a tax hike to fund a new ...read more.
If you are allergic to saccharine, you best stop reading right here. I'm violating my usual standards for my writing, in which I aim more for salt-and-vinegar than vanilla-and-spice. But I make an exception for the mom I observed recently at the pool ...read more.
This Mom I had just met at the ice rink was nearly frothing with rage. "There are four boys in Jonah's kindergarten class who are turning 7 in APRIL! 7!" She had been telling me about the elementary school that ...read more.
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