Catherine Dehdashti
- Location
- Eagan, Minnesota, USA
- Birthday
- May 02
- Bio
- Catherine is a freelance writer--and the world's worst soccer mom--living with her husband and two kids in Eagan Minnesota.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Best fish tacos in San Diego,
please. Hold the kids.
March 09, 2013 03:02PM - Europe with kids: Reality irks
September 09, 2012 12:55AM - Letting the kids roll their
own
April 23, 2012 10:52PM - Sex, Pirates, and Babette Cole
December 10, 2011 01:16AM - Kotex ad was a launch pad to
different “tween talk”
April 08, 2011 12:24AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Agreed. But I think at
least some of the biggest
influencers
on this issue in
Was…”
September 10, 2012 08:07AM - “If you were at the one
in MN, maybe I saw you. Was
just
there. They'd changed
eve…”
September 09, 2012 04:58PM - “Love this post.
--
Catherine, from near St. Paul
(a Christian saint
doncha
know),…”
September 09, 2012 10:40AM - “How strange that this
conversation happened at The
Loft,
where language should
be…”
April 25, 2012 04:19PM - “I love both the humor
and the truth in this
post--great
writing.”
April 24, 2012 07:12AM
Catherine Dehdashti's Links
Best fish tacos in San Diego, please. Hold the kids.
After my trip to Europe with kids last summer, I was ready for an adventure without them. My husband, Mohammad, had a conference in San Diego—giving me the perfect opportunity to tuck our boy and girl away with their Memaw and create my own adventure. Fish tacos are
… Read full post »Europe with kids: Reality irks
Travel magazines and other parents made it sound educational, enlightening. Maybe it depends on the family.
While planning our family trip to France and Italy, we learned that
Venice was built out in the hard-to-reach wetlands by Italians
escaping hordes of invaders. By the time&nbs… Read full post »
Letting the kids roll their own
I’ve always
liked rolling things: long loaves of stromboli, Bûche
de Noël cakes, stuffed grape leaves. My high school
boyfriend counted on me to roll his joints, but that was about
million years ago.
There’s a zen type of pleasure in the act of layering
ingredients/… Read full post »
Sex, Pirates, and Babette Cole
My
daughter Z had a favorite book when she was little—it was
about a child's uncle who is a pirate. The pirate falls in
love with a mermaid and marries her. Written and illustrated
by Babette Cole in her distinctive style,
The Trouble with Uncle was a swashbuckling good r/… Read full post » By Catherine Dehdashti
The envelope caught my eye in the stack of otherwise trash-can destined mailers. Satin black, with stars, hearts, and the word “tween” blazed fuchsia across the front. I have a tween girl, I thought. Then I saw other words: “U by Kotex,” and below that… Read full post »
Christine Geery
PeelingAnOrange
Matt Paust
Francesca Biller
Tinkerertink69
Lizz Schumer
Salon.com