Coming out
I've been hiding a dirty secret from my family blog for awhile now. A lovely lady who is a fellow mommy-blogger recently started a new blog, The Soccer Mom Vote, on political issues relating to mommyhood. She asked me and a handful of other, far more talented and informed women to be regular contributors. I told Nicole I'd post something there on the 9th of every month. I posted in December about negative campaigning; I posted today about breeders in the workplace. You get the Big Reveal today because I spent over an hour writing my post there and then had little energy left for my own blog.
Why Nicole asked me to be a card-carrying soccer mom I'll never know, except that perhaps she was mildly amused by my stories of babies and not of politics. I make it a general rule to avoid political discussions on this blog, because 1) I really do not follow politics, largely preferring to inform myself of the carryings-on of the Lindsey Lohans of the world than of bureaucrats, and 2) I have an almost pathological fear of confrontation. I will admit that I do find myself having stronger opinions about the world around me as I raise these adorable fellers to participate in it, but those opinions rarely leave the house and they certainly don't involve anything leaving my wallet.
Another reason why I've been hiding my Soccer Mom posts from this blog is that the Soccer Mom blog is, as you might expect from the title, rapidly evolving into a liberal one, though it is designed to be a forum for everybody's opinions. Lots of my family who read this blog are well-informed, proud, and life-long conservatives (hi Grandma and Grandpa!), and I certainly didn't want to cause any ruckus by directing them to read things that are left-leaning, at least without ample warning. Of course, after spending five years in Hippie Mecca, and most of that locked in a lab full of Europeans, my views have turned a bit more to the left, but I am still an Indiana girl and my goal as a political poster is to try to stay to the center while suggesting we should adopt some sort of national standard of maternity leave.
But here I am talking politics again. Done! I'm done. Anyway, wouldn't you rather see pictures of Jacob trying to eat Mamaw's new puppy? Of course you would.
Why Nicole asked me to be a card-carrying soccer mom I'll never know, except that perhaps she was mildly amused by my stories of babies and not of politics. I make it a general rule to avoid political discussions on this blog, because 1) I really do not follow politics, largely preferring to inform myself of the carryings-on of the Lindsey Lohans of the world than of bureaucrats, and 2) I have an almost pathological fear of confrontation. I will admit that I do find myself having stronger opinions about the world around me as I raise these adorable fellers to participate in it, but those opinions rarely leave the house and they certainly don't involve anything leaving my wallet.
Another reason why I've been hiding my Soccer Mom posts from this blog is that the Soccer Mom blog is, as you might expect from the title, rapidly evolving into a liberal one, though it is designed to be a forum for everybody's opinions. Lots of my family who read this blog are well-informed, proud, and life-long conservatives (hi Grandma and Grandpa!), and I certainly didn't want to cause any ruckus by directing them to read things that are left-leaning, at least without ample warning. Of course, after spending five years in Hippie Mecca, and most of that locked in a lab full of Europeans, my views have turned a bit more to the left, but I am still an Indiana girl and my goal as a political poster is to try to stay to the center while suggesting we should adopt some sort of national standard of maternity leave.
But here I am talking politics again. Done! I'm done. Anyway, wouldn't you rather see pictures of Jacob trying to eat Mamaw's new puppy? Of course you would.
posted by Claire at 12:20 AM
2 Comments:
Completely nonpolitical comment here: Love the haircut on Jake! And the new puppy looks like Fergus--- I can't wait to show Ella.
:: cough :: Conservative here! Although, I confess, my last two SMV posts have been more left leaning so as to not get booted out. :-)
But I'm thrilled you're part of the crowd. It's SUCH a great crowd of people who make me want to be a better writer.
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