Posted on November 13, 2011 by nikkimeredith in book reviews. I’m tempted to say I won’t read Chris Mathews’ new book, Jack Kennedy: The Elusive Hero because Mathews fawns and fawning is not a quality I desire in a biographer. If you don’t watch his show Hardball on MSNBC regularly, it might surprise you to learn that the in-your-face, swashbuckling, braggart is a world class […]
Continue Reading...
Comments Off on why I will never read Chris Mathews’ new book Jack Kennedy: “Elusive Hero”
Posted on October 27, 2011 by nikkimeredith in book reviews, love of a mother, Mother-Daughter Relationships. A few years ago I was at an all women dinner party and we started talking about our mothers. Because it’s Marin County — an area saturated with shrinks of all stripes — there was a lot of shrinkish vocabulary circulating the room. At one point when I talked about my mother and my complicated […]
Continue Reading...
Comments Off on fierce attachments: difficult mothers and the daughters who love them