Exploiting My Baby : A Blog by Teresa Strasser http://teresastrasser.com/blog Wed, 16 May 2012 18:33:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 I’m Past That Now http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/05/im-past-that-now/ http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/05/im-past-that-now/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 18:33:47 +0000 Teresa Strasser http://teresastrasser.com/blog/?p=1891 Posted in General Stuff

There is some unwritten statute of limitations on how long one can whine about a crappy childhood, a negligent parent, a few too many chicken pot pies, summers with the grandparents, days spent on Greyhound Busses and with dubious caregivers and creepy neighbors. There is just a moment in an adult’s life when the complaining [...]

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I’d like to go to my senior prom again, but not be blackout drunk with a 26 year-old date. For a brief period during which I hosted a basic cable decorating show, I was kind of famous. I wish I could be famous again, without having to emotionally implode from the cognitive dissonance of thinking [...]

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It had never come to my attention before a certain freckle-faced, scrawny, corduroy-pants-wearing bully named Robin brought it to my attention: I have freakishly small hands. I have hands like a carnie. I blame the bullies I knew before Robin for being off their game and letting the small hands slide. A bully’s whole raison [...]

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Today, I stopped home to change my outfit before picking up my kid from daycare. What, because you never know who might snap a photo as I lure my child into his car seat with the whispered promise of a Grover juice box? No one cares. Except now that I’m a parent, I care deeply [...]

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]]> http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/04/i-cant-be-the-badly-dressed-mom-at-pick-up-time/feed/ 7 When an Audition Makes you Feel Like Coco From “Fame” http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/03/when-an-audition-makes-you-feel-like-coco-from-fame/ http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/03/when-an-audition-makes-you-feel-like-coco-from-fame/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:00:25 +0000 Teresa Strasser http://teresastrasser.com/blog/?p=1750 Posted in General Stuff

  Coco is approached in a diner by a filmmaker who tells her he is casting a film he plans to shoot in the south of France. She goes to his apartment for a screen test, but there is no crew. And if you saw the movie “Fame,” this scene is as seared in your [...]

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]]> http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/03/when-an-audition-makes-you-feel-like-coco-from-fame/feed/ 10 Some Half-Baked Class I Took With My Kid http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/03/some-half-baked-class-i-took-with-my-kid/ http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/03/some-half-baked-class-i-took-with-my-kid/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:41:55 +0000 Teresa Strasser http://teresastrasser.com/blog/?p=1742 Posted in General Stuff

As a mom looking for shit to do with a toddler, I’ve kissed some frogs, and not just the kind at the zoo’s house of amphibians. I try stuff. You never know what your kid might go for. And that’s how I came to visit the private home of a woman offering a bread baking [...]

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A few months ago, I recorded an episode of “The Mental Illness Happy Hour” with host Paul Gilmartin. I’ve gotten so much lovely feedback from those who have heard it, I thought I would post a link here. Also, I understand from social media experts it’s good to update one’s blog quarterly. I must admit, [...]

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I ask this question during my fourth go-round with the song, “Ghostbusters.” It’s playing in the industrial parking lot of a quaint Pennsylvania suburb where a group of elementary school children are having a Halloween parade. An amplifier is perched on a chair, an orange extension cord leading to a cute schoolhouse, complete with glimmering [...]

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There’s a social contract when it comes to birthday parties for kids. You can’t just be a recurring guest, enjoying the bouncy houses, gift bags and balloon animals arranged and paid for by other parents. No, you have to reciprocate. Like it or not, there’s a kid pro quo. Other parents helped you kill a [...]

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“Desitin in my cuticles” is not the first line of a poignant country song, but I keep thinking it should be. No. Desitin in my cuticles is what concerns me when I’m asked the question I get at least once a day: “Are you having another one?” Really, this should not be an annoying question. [...]

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