Here's another guest blog from Leslie Lehr.
My friend at the LA Times wrote a great editorial about how Americans work so much - often aided by so-called "labor saving" devices - that the federal holiday honoring our workforce isn't a true holiday for most. I read the article, eagerly anticipating a mention of moms - not working moms, but all moms, all of us working 24/7 without any nod from the federal government.
Most moms I know are crowding the checkout lines at Costco right now in order to celebrate the holiday with barbecues and other family events. Monday night there will be extra clean-up and laundry and and the mental preparation required for getting the kids off to a new school year (carpools, clothes, teachers) at the same time as preparing to shove five days worth of work into a four day week. As if.
Even TV commercials show how eager parents can be to get their kids back in school - the popular spot from Staples shows a man clicking his Easy button to fill his happy children with armloads of school supplies. Wish I had an easy button. It sure wouldn't involve school supplies.
My gardener stopped by to fix my white picket fence the other day (I swear) and was telling me how he told his wife she could get a job if she wanted, but with four kids, she's happy. He said she as reading a book about how women are so empowered now (my wording) and he beamed at me, a single mom trying to figure out how to afford hiring him to fix all the other stuff around the house, a said that "women are running the world now." I fought back words about the lack of daycare and health care and women running Fortune 5O0 companies and a recent TV idea of mine that got shot down by an older male producer who didn't who feel that the premise of a woman having a work/parenting conflict was current enough - and smiled. I pointed my gardener to the fence, tossed a load of laundry in the washer as I passed through the garage, negotiated with my daughter about dinner, and sat back down at my desk to work. My white picket fence looks great.
Happy Labor Day!
"...a recent TV idea of mine that got shot down by an older male producer who didn't who feel that the premise of a woman having a work/parenting conflict was current enough - and smiled."
Dear Leslie,
Sorry to hear the balding, toady-faced, pot-bellied, stoop-shouldered, erectile dyfunctioning producer did not support your TV idea. Did you at least take a swing at his triple chin? This fellow makes older males look bad. Give me a name and I can arrange for some homies to pay him a visit to rearrange his thinking.
Sincerely,
Writer in 'da 'hood
...didju see the layoffs announced on labor day? Crikes!
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