Moxie: Delurking Week

Highly Recommended

Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi: The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke
Reading this book explained a whole lot of things about why so many families I know are struggling financially, even though we don't spend extravagantly. Simultaneously enlightening and nauseating.
Elizabeth Warren: All Your Worth : The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan
If other personal finance books have frustrated you because they assume you have money to invest and you don't even have enough money to buy a large coffee, this is the personal finance book for you. Reading this book showed me that it's not that I waste money on stupid things--it's that our basic expenses are too high to begin with. Reading this book is the end of financial guilt and the beginning of getting out of the hole.
Adele Faber: Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
Lots of great ideas to think about and put into practice about not assigning your kids roles and how to approach fights. Also goes over some of the stuff from the How to Talk So Kids Will Listen book about making kids feel understood. Because, really, that's all anyone wants--to be understood. And kids are people, too.
Anne Lamott: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Just perfect. A beautiful, funny, sad, accurate account of what the first days, weeks, and months with a baby are like. This is exactly what your journal would be, if you could write as well as she does.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc: Random Family : Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
LeBlanc's writing and pacing makes you want to keep reading despite the tragic story. Think you have an informed opinion about welfare reform and how to strengthen families in this country? Not until you've read this book.
John Taylor Gatto: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
This is the red pill. Don't read it if you want to stay comfortable with the American school system. Gatto goes into why government-owned schools were created and the things they actually teach us.
Ellis Avery: The Smoke Week: September 11-21, 2001
If you have any curiosity about what it was like for New Yorkers during the World Trade Center attacks, this is the book to read. A brilliant, crystalline, spot-on memoir of the week or so after the attacks, this book is an ode to New Yorkers. Realistic, clean, and completely un-maudlin, it's just the story of what it was like for us. This is what should go into a time capsule to represent September 2001.

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Delurking Week

It's Delurking Week this week. So if you read me, please leave a comment to let me know.

A Public Service Announcement for people who read and comment on Typepad.com/Blogs.com blogs:

If you want to leave a comment, but don't want anyone who clicks on your name to be able to see your email address, put your real email in the "Email Address" box and a fake URL* in the "URL" box. Anything you put in the URL box is what people see when they hover over your name, so they won't know what your email address is. However, the owner of the blog can see your real email address and reply to you.

If you don't want to leave your real email address because you're a troll, well then carry on as you have been already.

*You can make up a URL, or just use something obvious, like www.google.com or www.fake.com.

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Comments

Long time reader, lazy commenter here. Yay for all things Moxie.

Posted by: Wavery | January 09, 2006 at 10:04 PM

Not that I commented much before, but Bloglines has made it even worse!

Love the site, love the new Q&A site (which I do have a question for...I suppose I'd better run over there to ask while I'm thinking of it).

Thanks for the great reading!

Posted by: Amanda | January 09, 2006 at 10:05 PM

Lurker delurking..

Posted by: cubbiegirl | January 09, 2006 at 10:09 PM

Delurking here... I've been reading your blog since pre-El Pequeno days. Love your blog and best wishes to you and your family!

Posted by: Liz | January 09, 2006 at 10:12 PM

Have I commented here before? I have no idea. Delurk. Hello.

Posted by: Eulallia | January 09, 2006 at 10:32 PM

Delurking....

I read and commiserate (even if I can't spell)

Spacemom

Posted by: SpaceMom | January 09, 2006 at 10:39 PM

Long time lurker, delurking to say hi.

Posted by: Julia | January 09, 2006 at 10:40 PM

I've commented a few times, but mostly just read.

Posted by: Leggy | January 09, 2006 at 11:03 PM

Delurking...I love your blog;)

Posted by: Kateri | January 09, 2006 at 11:06 PM

Another long time lurker delurking. Hi! Love your blog and your new blog.

Posted by: iheartnewyork | January 09, 2006 at 11:09 PM

Hi, Moxie!

Posted by: Jamie | January 09, 2006 at 11:29 PM

i'm contemplating leaving (public) bloglandia for good. so even though i'm not delurking, i'm passing along what might be an unexpected comment.

Posted by: wix | January 09, 2006 at 11:33 PM

Yes, I lurk, and laugh and enjoy your writing style.

Posted by: beckster | January 09, 2006 at 11:38 PM

I lurk because I never knew how to comment--the URL stumped me. Embarassing. Also because I'm older than most everyone! Should be in the grandma group, but am not yet. I natural birthed and breastfed back in the early 70's and got lots of feedback about what a weirdo I was. I'm interested in the struggles mothers face now; I work with very young children and have just never lost my interest in parenting. Thanks, Moxie, for letting me know what moms are thinking in the 21st century.

Posted by: Ruth | January 10, 2006 at 12:08 AM

Delurking. Long time reader. Not a great commenter.

Posted by: Bella Donna | January 10, 2006 at 12:09 AM

I read regularly (and enjoy), but rarely comment.

Posted by: Bella | January 10, 2006 at 12:21 AM

I'm an infrequent visitor, a Canadian mom to 5 year old triplets. I like your stories of the kids. I think I found you via your comments on Julie's and Tertia's, and other parenting after i/f blogs.
Best wishes,

Posted by: SheilaC | January 10, 2006 at 12:45 AM

Hey there. You're part of a group of blogs of people I'd like to grow up and be. Plus, you're originally from Minnesota, and people from near the motherland are pretty cool. Plus, your reading list rocks.

Posted by: Letanica | January 10, 2006 at 12:53 AM

Lurker delurking- I love your blog! No kids yet, but hoping for them soon. I love the glimpse into motherhood- thanks for the laughs and the lessons!

Posted by: jen | January 10, 2006 at 01:23 AM

Not really a lurker, just lazy. I read you to see if I were a good mom, what it would look like.

Keep up the good mothering!

Posted by: janet | January 10, 2006 at 02:31 AM

i like delurking week :) lets face it i only comment about once every 3 months - somehow the writing part of my brain responds badly to the sleep deprivation - but i read, boy do i read...

Posted by: k | January 10, 2006 at 03:42 AM

I'm not sure if I've commented before... But I really like the idea of delurking week. I should go round all the blogs I read and leave a comment!

I love reading your blog, thank you.

Posted by: emma | January 10, 2006 at 04:40 AM

Hi! I lurk because I never know what to say, and its happening again right now!

Posted by: Corrie | January 10, 2006 at 04:43 AM

Delurking from Melbourne, Australia.
I love reading about the differences in other countries, as much as I enjoy reading that the issues facing mothers are largely similar.
Moxie, from reading your blog, you sound like a great Mum, with a big heart.

Posted by: Claire Gee | January 10, 2006 at 06:10 AM