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When Amy Sherman-Palladino wrote Gilmore Girls, on the other hand, she "never set out to create an 'alternative' family"; she envisioned "a mother-daughter relationship where they were more pals than mother and daughter." In this sweet, clever hour-long comedy, 32-year-old single mom Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) raises 16-year-old daughter--you do the math--Rory (Alexis Bledel), who's more reserved and adult than Mom; Lorelai wears Daisy Duke cutoffs to Rory's first day in private school and jokes that she offered "to do the principal" to get her daughter accepted...
...took me nearly two decades to erase the memory of my alienated teenage years. It took my father two minutes and an e-mail message to remind me: "Missy: After you went to college, Mom and I found stacks of dirty dishes under the bed, left from when you took all meals in seclusion." Given the man's tendency to exaggerate (he is also the source of that "preferred pimply boyfriends" rumor), I categorically denied his charge that during high school I emerged "only to use the phone...
...kids to develop a powerful aversion to any setting that smacks of a setup for a formal "talk." (I'm creeped out just imagining it, and I'm the parent.) Try informal chats to establish a connection, Wolvin suggests. Even the instant messages my daughter routinely sends ("hey mom how r u, school was good, g2g") can create a rapport that could prove useful during more, uh, delicate face-to-face conversations...
...that we're grownups, Antje and I don't get to share those rich chocolate moments anymore. She's a busy working mom, living with her husband and two-year-old boy a few minutes from the beautiful California coastline, while I'm still single and confused, living a few blocks from a Manhattan sewage-treatment plant. We call and we write, but we haven't seen each other in years...
...when I had to pick someone to help me test a new digital picture frame from Kodak--which goes on sale at Kodak.com this week--my high school pal was the obvious choice. After all, what new mom can resist snapping pictures of her precious offspring? And with a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences, she's hardly a technophobe...