Risa Green on Shine

Getting By With A Little Help From Friends.

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track)

It’s getting easier. I feel like myself again, sort of. More like, a sadder, emptier version of myself, but at least that’s better than the constantly…

A Death in the Family.

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track) My life changed on a Saturday morning with a phone call. My father …. hospital…heart attack….ventilator. It was Halloween. I was three thousand miles away. I…

Is Shouting Really the New Spanking?

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track) A friend of mine forwarded me a New York Times article that ran last week, called “For Some Parents,

Whatever, Martha!

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track)

My daughter has discovered Martha Stewart and loves her – please, mommy, can you TiVo every one of her shows? – which just goes to show you how…

The Registered Dietitian vs. the Picky Eater.

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track) It turns out that I’ve been approaching this food thing all wrong. Which is not such a great surprise, given that I’ve gotten nowhere with it for the last…

Halloween: Give More than Candy.

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track)

I have this friend who is beautiful and smart and funny, and who runs her own business and is involved with a million different charities, and is divorced and…

Food Frustrations: Nutritionist-Bound.

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track)

I am getting nowhere with the food thing.

I’ve written several times about my daughter, and her aversion to anything that does not involve pasta,…

Hey Kid, Get Your Own Breakfast.

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track) Last week’s New York Times article about why kids can’t walk to school anymore has, I must say, been the talk of the town lately. Everywhere, it seems,…

Mom Lit Writer Turns To Teens.

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track)

Finally, I have written a third book. Well, technically, it’s a fourth book, because I wrote a third book before this third book, but that third book kind of…

Sportsophobia.

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track) I’d like to go on record as a parent by saying that I hate organized sports. Okay, wait: I don’t really have anything against the actual sports themselves – I…