Emails From My Mother
Wednesday:
“You should write something happy. Just because you’re depressed, doesn’t mean you have to depress the entire world.”
Thursday:
“I don’t mind when it is funny, but do you have to be so “dirty?”
Friday:
“Before you show pictures of your room you should hang up your clothes and then call your mother.”
Two years ago on Citizen of the Month: Night of a Thousand Anxieties (pretty much the same topics as now — sex and anxiety)
Tags: Jewish mothers








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I have no idea why you’re in therapy.
By MammaLoves on 03.14.08 7:46 am
But Mrs. Kramer, we love when Neil depresses us. Really!
By nancypearlwannabe on 03.14.08 7:57 am
Ok those are just hilarious.
By Julie on 03.14.08 8:01 am
Wow, your mom is so nice and sweet.
Not even one F bomb was dropped.
Call your mom.
By psychomom on 03.14.08 8:15 am
You sure that wasn’t MY mom?
By Arjewtino on 03.14.08 8:19 am
My mom is my unofficial “blog monitor” too.
By Kathy on 03.14.08 8:19 am
I’m just impressed half your wardrobe is actually hanging up.
I know mine isn’t.
Then again, I didn’t publish my wardrobe to the blog world. Perhaps I should?
By Eileen Dover on 03.14.08 8:31 am
my mother reads my blog then doesn’t remember reading it. I like the “dirty” line. LOL.
you aren’t depressed. You are in transition.
By melanie on 03.14.08 8:40 am
When you’re done hanging clothes, could you come over and hang mine?
By gorillabuns on 03.14.08 8:42 am
Back when my mother knew that I had a blog, she would constantly ask me to write something for one of my uncles because “it would make him happy.”
By Finn on 03.14.08 9:12 am
I think it’s a sign of your great mental health that you can write about all of those topics knowing that your mother will be reading it. That is courage.
By Danny on 03.14.08 10:25 am
sheesh, someone gets in a new yorker article, and they become an expert on blogs.
this is why mother has no idea i have a blog.
please explain to her that “funny” and “dirty” are blog siblings.
By bookfraud on 03.14.08 10:29 am
it would be awesome if your jewish mother met my jewish mother
By ali on 03.14.08 11:23 am
Your mom is a riot.
By Atomic Bombshell on 03.14.08 11:27 am
I just read that post from two years ago. (which is hilarious by the way)Why do you think that gave you a bad reputation?
Anyway. Anyone who has the balls to publish a “real life” picture of their closet and “pseudo closet” (which is what I call the laundry baskets and piles of clothes on my floor) is someone with self-confidence and assurance I can only dream of.
And yes, that dangling participle is killing me.
By Not Fainthearted on 03.14.08 11:47 am
This motherhood gig never ends.
By LVGurl on 03.14.08 12:06 pm
I would die if my mother read my blog.
Now tell me, which of us really needs therapy?
By Diane Mandy on 03.14.08 12:56 pm
Ha! I posted pictures of my dog on my blog once, and my mom called to inform me that she was pissed at me because she could see how dirty my kitchen floor was. Whoops.
By Lara on 03.14.08 1:49 pm
One more reason why my mom doesn’t even know what a blog is, let alone have my URL.
By Isabel on 03.14.08 2:25 pm
my mom isn’t jewish…and she thinks blogging is a waste of time. she never reads mine, but i still hear comments like
you should really get out more.
and
you are blogging too much.
yet i don’t think she has a clue how often i blog. oh…and she lives in america and i live in turkey. how would she know if i am getting out enough?
maybe she installed hidden cameras when she came to visit. she is a mom so i wouldn’t put it past her.
By natalie on 03.14.08 3:01 pm
Now that’s bravery - not tidying frantically before a photo, knowing your Mum will see it! Hence any photos of my old house where quite ‘tight’ and very very staged!
By Bec on 03.14.08 3:35 pm
lol, you’re adorable mrs. kramer!
hope you called your mom.
By better safe than sorry on 03.14.08 6:19 pm
Your mom sounds awesome! I’ve always wondered what she thinks about your “dirtier” posts. I can’t even imagine what my mother would say if she ever read my blog.
By 180/360 on 03.14.08 11:07 pm
I wonder what I’d do if my Mom read my blog! Yikes! And my son doesn’t write a blog, nor does he read mine. And, for the time being, that’s all I have to say about that.
By tamarika on 03.15.08 5:58 am
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