someone please join my new diaryring ! it's a club for those of us (like me) who seem to be constantly and irrevocably single. not that we all like it, but so it goes.

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i'm sitting next to the Best Baby in the World, making raspberries at her while she eats her arrowroot cookies and drinks from her sippy-cup. why don't they make arrowroot cookies for grown-ups? they're so good! today we played in the grass, and she discovered leaves and twigs.

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i watched 20/20 with my mom last night, and anne heche was on. i don't understand this idea of actors going on talk shows and doing interviews where they spill all the secrets of their personal lives. (ok there's a little irony here but still) i don't really understand the media fascination with public figures either...why are their stories so much more interesting than ours? not that i don't feel sorry for anne heche...to be hurt as a child by the people who are supposed to take care of you is a terrible experience; anyone would be scarred by that, and creative children often develop their own fantasy worlds to hide from the pain.

what worries me about the anne heche story actually has very little to do with anne heche, and a lot more to do with the media's spin. i'm worried because of the facile explanations people may be able to give for lesbianism now...she was molested, that's the "reason." not to mention that it's a lot easier to show someone like anne heche, because she's a little screwy, and a lot of people are still looking for "reasons." i don't know, maybe i'm not making sense, but it just worries me...

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the anne heche interview was immediately followed by a report about working mothers staying later and later at their place of work. i think all the mothers in the report were widowed or divorced, which means that there was no question of a house husband. and there were also no single fathers. so it's basically the same old question: do working mothers hurt their kids? the same old guilt trip. why don't they ever ask these questions about workaholic fathers? because men don't have to choose between housework and out-of-the-housework? what's with the media doing the whole conservative status-quo thing of late?

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ok Best Baby in the World needs some love and attention. and this entry has gone on long enough already.

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