just lane

being a mom
we love that tummy.  leslunes.com

we love that tummy.  leslunes.com

dream a little dream

dream a little dream

We love Anouska de Georgio!  Les Lunes for life.

We love Anouska de Georgio!  Les Lunes for life.

mammalingo:

MOMSULTATION n. [Fr. mom + consultation]: Asking another mom for advice about whatever it is your child is doing that no parenting book has covered. Example: “I called Linda for a momsultation when my three year old started only answering to the name T-Rex and eating his food without using his hands, just sticking his face in the bowl.” Also see: NON-MOMSULTATION n. Unsolicited parenting advice from people who are not moms. “I just got another non-momsultation call from my sister-in-law about how I am ruining my children.” (Submitted — awesomely — by Jennifer in Long Beach, CA)


Yup.

mammalingo:

MOMSULTATION n. [Fr. mom + consultation]: Asking another mom for advice about whatever it is your child is doing that no parenting book has covered. Example: “I called Linda for a momsultation when my three year old started only answering to the name T-Rex and eating his food without using his hands, just sticking his face in the bowl.” Also see: NON-MOMSULTATION n. Unsolicited parenting advice from people who are not moms. “I just got another non-momsultation call from my sister-in-law about how I am ruining my children.” (Submitted — awesomely — by Jennifer in Long Beach, CA)


Yup.

I see myself in the older bloggers, many of whom worked for newspapers until they took buyouts or were laid off, as well as in the aspiring reporters. These men and women love the trade. They want to make a difference. They have the integrity not to sell themselves to public relations firms or corporate-funded propaganda outlets. And they keep at it, the way true artists, musicians or actors do, although there are dimmer and dimmer hopes of compensation. They are victims of a dying culture, one that no longer values the talents that would keep it healthy and humane. The corporate state remunerates corporate management and public relations. It lavishes money on the celebrities who provide the fodder for our national mini-dramas. But those who deal with the bedrock virtues of truth, justice and beauty, who seek not to entertain but to transform, are discarded. They must struggle on their own. The sale of The Huffington Post to AOL for $315 million, and the tidy profit of reportedly at least several million dollars made by principal owner and founder Arianna Huffington, who was already rich, is emblematic of this new paradigm of American journalism.

The highly successful [Huffington Post] site, like most Internet sites, is largely pirated from other sources, especially traditional news organizations, or is the product of unpaid writers who are rechristened “citizen journalists.” It is driven by the celebrity gossip that dominates cheap tabloids, with one or two stories that come from The New York Times or one of the wire services to give it a veneer of journalistic integrity. Hollywood celebrities, or at least their publicists, write windy and vapid commentaries. And this, I fear, is what news is going to look like in the future. The daily reporting and monitoring of city halls, courts, neighborhoods and government, along with investigations into corporate fraud and abuse, will be replaced by sensational garbage and Web packages that are made to look like news but contain little real news.

He kissed me today, and it was very sweet.