Huffington Post Blog Entries by Janet Carlson
- December 21, 2011: Buying Gifts For Your Ex: Is That The Spirit? - Janet Carlson
Last year during the holiday shopping madness I always fail to avoid, I found myself at Chef Central with my daughters, whipping out my charge card to pay for $150 worth of gifts they'd selected for their father, his longtime girlfriend, and her two children - November 9, 2011: Up With Stereotypes! Is Defining a Real Man Today Really Politically Incorrect? - Janet Carlson
At pivotal times, stereotypes serve as just the platform we need -- something solid and obvious against which to rebel. Lucille Ball's antics on I Love Lucy were that funny because they were so not the proper behavior of a proper housewife in the 1950s. - December 4, 2010: A Manual for Men: Let's Talk Real Men - Janet Carlson
The fact that we're all so worked up about gender roles, relationships and communication, still, after all this time, tells us something. At least we care. - November 7, 2010: Men In The Post-Women's-Lib World: Should We Give Them A How-To Guide? - Janet Carlson
Nobody rewrote the user's manual for men. And God knows, men rely on the manual. So how were men to know how to behave vis-Ã -vis women in the new order? - October 9, 2009: More Fathers Present; Sign of Our Times? - Janet Carlson
For years, I'd seen mostly just mothers at weekday school eventsm but I looked around and saw more fathers -- in fact, many fathers, along with the familiar crowd of moms who don't commute as I do. - September 4, 2009: Real Ballroom Dancing for Regular People - Janet Carlson
It's hard for a novice to step into the ballroom studio -- those suave, glamorous, sexy, elegant pros in the studios and on TV these days can be so intimidating - July 15, 2009: Why A Freckle Could Be The Death Of Me - Janet Carlson
Melanoma is the black-belt of skin cancers. It travels stealthily, horizontally through the skin and sets up satellites that can get busy. Left untreated, melanoma can kill you. - February 11, 2009: Popular Mechanics: A Modern Woman's Heartthrob - Janet Carlson
Being a self-reliant woman surely doesn't mean I have to get good at everything. That would be no fun at all. - January 5, 2009: It May Be Time to Redefine Family - Janet Carlson
It's a funny concept, spending money on gifts for the man you're divorcing, isn't it? The man you're trying to disentangle from financially? - August 11, 2008: My Trip to Google's HQ - Janet Carlson
The vending machine at the Google Headquarters charges more for foods containing unhealthy ingredients. How California is that? - May 13, 2008: Quick, Be Here Now - Janet Carlson
Which is the "right" attitude in these days of Eckhart Tolle and The Power of Now? Seize the day or allow the passage of time? - May 6, 2008: Why Am I A Ballroom Dancer? Mom Made Me Do It - Janet Carlson
These days, thanks to Dancing With the Stars and Mad, Hot Ballroom and the like, it's quite fabulous to be a ballroom dancer. But I'll never forget the old days. - April 21, 2008: How Ballroom Dancing Saved My Life - Janet Carlson
My ballroom dance coach has been talking lately about how important it is for me to make myself available to him. No, not available in that sense.