About this Burbia Blogger
- added on 01/23/2008
Linda Keenan
Linda Keenan worked 7 years as a head writer/senior producer for various programs on CNN. Before that, she worked as a writer/producer for Bloomberg TV. She now writes satire, primarily about parenting culture, at www.thoroughlymodernmommy.blogspot.com . Seen here is Linda's thoroughly modern Mommy in the late 1940's.
Blogs by Linda Keenan
I voted for the President-elect. I got a little teary as I watched the throngs in Chicago and Oprah and Jesse Jackson cry. And then a few hours later, I cursed him and said, "Goddamn it, Obama." The reason for my outburst? The promise to give his little girls a dog. ...read more.
How do you tell the difference between parent and non-parent? It's not lipstick (isn't that soooo last week)? For me, it's how you react to the words "Fall Back."
When you hear it's time to push the clock back an hour, do you think about that extra lovely hour of sleep to luxuriate in your 5000 thread count sheets ...read more.
I lived about a half hour's walk from Ground Zero in 2001, but I might as well have been a million miles away. To claim any closer connection to 9/11 would be, in my opinion, a grievous insult to those who lost a loved one. The event happened in the city, but whose ...read more.
Well, tonight my city mouse sister is having dinner at Le Cirque. In the words of my brother-in-law, "we're partying like it's 2007." While they're supping on Lobster Poached in Lime with Caramelized Quince, I'm the suburban mouse sitting home making my Walmart shopping ...read more.
If you are allergic to saccharine, you best stop reading right here. I'm violating my usual standards for my writing, in which I aim more for salt-and-vinegar than vanilla-and-spice. But I make an exception for the mom I observed the other day at the pool ...read more.
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