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Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake, the duo responsible for Saturday Night Live's viral video "Dick in A Box," were at it again this weekend, pasting on absurd facial hair and recording "Motherlover," a spoof song in honor of Mother's Day about two friends who really want to love each other's mothers (played, in the video, by Susan Sarandon and Patricia Clarkson). Like really, really. (To see the video and read the rest of this post, visit our new website, DoubleX.com!)
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Meghan, I so feel your pain about being motherless on Mother's Day. I lost my mother last October and have felt unmoored ever since. Losing my mother was like losing my sense of place in the world; the sense that I belonged to this one person in way that I could never belong to anyone else.
Still, instead of trying to avoid everything Mother's Day-related, I planned to embrace the day and comfort myself with good memories of good times with my mother... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website, DoubleX.com!)
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Bonnie, Jess, I confess I haven't been able to read Jess's piece about talking to her mom yet; I started to, and it brought tears to my eyes. Like Jess, I used to talk to my mom all the time, about matters large and small. (Should I refrigerate peanut butter? Should I take that job? Who are you voting for?) But my mother passed away on Christmas Day of 2008. And so I can't talk to her. I didn't think that Mother's Day was going to hit home at all, because my mother, a wry pragmatist, considered it a fake holiday... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website, DoubleX.com!)
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On this Mother's
Day weekend, here's a shout out to Jessica
Grose's mother who as Jess writes, "didn't want to get in the way" of her
college age son's and daughter's independence so she would never call them,
though they could call her whenever they wanted. It takes a lot of self-discipline... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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The Root has a set
of takes on motherhood today (and yesterday, and tomorrow). We’ve allowed four women in their
20s, 30s, 40s and 50s riff on just how significant is it is that someone,
somewhere, grinned and bore it—literally—pushing a football-sized version of
themselves out into the world.
They’re all great pieces. I notice that in the younger ages,
there is downward pressure... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Damn, Jessica. You've really shown up the rest of us. How are we ever going to find Mother's Day presents to rival the one you arranged for your mom—weeks early, yet? Courtesy of your funny and clever new book, Love Mom: Poignant, Goofy, Brilliant Messages from Home, your mother gets to be in The New Yorker's Talk of the Town. She's described as "a psychiatrist with a cool haircut." And she's quoted saying sagely, “As my own mother always says, children are at the center of parents’
lives, and parents are on the periphery. We write e-mails that have to
be perceived as lame, because independence has to be preserved.” True. Coup. I quit.
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