Word: mellor
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...Christie Mellor, who arguably launched the "martini mom" trend with her 2004 book Three-Martini Playdate, says she was just using cocktails as a figure of speech: "Anyone who read my book and actually understood the metaphorical nature of the title would know that I wasn't actually encouraging mommies to down a fifth of vodka at their toddler's play dates...
Unfortunately, says Mellor, who wrote a 2007 follow-up, The Three-Martini Family Vacation, some people took her literally. "I did hear from a few mommies who felt that I was, in fact, giving them 'permission' to party down with the cocktails while supervising a gang of 2-year-olds," she says. "I tried to explain in various interviews and columns that it's not about alcohol - it's about attitude. The addition of alcohol to your incredibly overscheduled, child-centered life wasn't going to suddenly make you a relaxed 'three-martini mom.' It was simply going to make...
...forget these old institutional policies at Harvard,” says Jenna M. Mellor ’08, a member of the Radcliffe Union of Students. “We think there are no gender differences here...
...years, the brunch has become much more of a signature event for the Women’s Center and it has appealed to a larger community and gained momentum on its own. “I’m having a great time,” said Jenna M. Mellor ’08, as she tried on a tank top. “I think clothes are really self-expressive and fun to play with, but not fun to spend money on.” Katherine Y. Tan ’10 said she was new to the brunch...
...pieces in the show are less easily relatable. “The Vag Club,” for instance, is not a reiteration of hackneyed sentiments about the body. As people walked by the over-sized photograph of a vagina, they expressed shock, enthusiastic approval, and understanding. Jenna M. Mellor ’08, who created the piece in response to an assignment for Visual and Enviornmental Studies 65: “Tactics-Art, Politics and Performance,” admits that she wanted her work to border on absurdity. “Vaginas do not always treat vaginas nicely...