(Olivia spent hours on the Havanese forum, a worldwide chat board composed mostly of older women who call themselves the small dogs' "mommies," and share a tone of slightly addled coziness, which Olivia expertly imitated. Being a dog owner pleased her almost more than owning a dog).
In 2006, she joined the National Alliance of Mental Illness, an organization with twelve hundred chapters created by family members (known as "NAMI mommies") who felt excluded from the medical decisions made by their loved ones.
The law was so vaguely and broadly worded that it was possible to imagine all sorts of invidious applications: kids turned down for day care because they have two mommies, same-sex couples barred from restaurants.
If the egg survives an entire week intact, Mrs. Schwartz takes you out for pizza, though the budget is such that, if enough mommies and daddies mess up, Chinese is a possibility....Last week, as the death toll mounted--with one day to go, only twenty-two oforty-fiveve eggsurvived--itit became easy to pick out the kids who weren't taking Egg Week seriously.
Mommies and daddies miss all the traffic so they get to see their children's soccer games".
And the girls in these movies are not called on to do much else, except be mommies, nice or mean, symbolic or actual.
"The mommies in New York," she concluded, "don't abuse their children".
One slice of the blogosphere where this connection is screamingly clear happens to involve blogs written by moms — or, as these bloggers frequently put it, "mommies".
They share half of their biology, but much more, they share two mommies, the family I always wanted.
"It happened most recently when an attractive group of mommies came charging at me with their jogging strollers one day and remarked: 'Oh.
