Name: Diana Hartman
Dateline: Oceanside, California
Weblog: dianahartman.blogspot.com
Articles: 155
First Published: Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Last Published: Sunday, July 13, 2008
Diana (nee Gulick) Hartman is the Culture and Tastes Editor for Blogcritics.org. She is a freelance writer, mother of three, and a (Ret.) US Marine spouse. She is a Wichita, Kansas native, having also lived in the California desert, eastern North Carolina and Stuttgart, Germany. She currently resides in Oceanside, California. She is a contributing writer to Holiday Writes.Currently listing articles 155-101:
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Book Review: The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart— Of all the juvenile fiction I’ve read, Stewart’s is the only one that kept me up all night reading.
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Post-9/11 GI Bill: 2,881 Days Late and Millions of Dollars Short — Yes, Virginia, there is no grandfather clause.
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Black Holes are Racist? Reinventing the Color Wheel — If all goes as planned, we’ve heard the last of Monty Python’s The Black Knight and Ajax' White Knight.
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Getting Joy to Outweigh Regret— The road from remorse to consolation is as simple, and as difficult, as putting all your cards on the table.
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Jumping to the Wrong Conclusion— A military wife reflects on how her husband handled his struggle with post-traumatic stress.
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High School Drunken-Driving Awareness Program Causes Outcry: Too Bad?— Parents, students, and the media are upset. Lucky them.
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MSNBC’s Allison Linn Questions USMC Ad at Sex and the City Screening— In the attempt to catch the Marine Corps in a lie, Linn manages to paraphrase Marine Lt. General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller.
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Gay Marriage and the Undoing of Straight Marriage — Marriage has long been a punchline in this country. Are we about to let others in on the joke?
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News You Can Abuse: Eastwood Gets Spiked, Starr Shines on Paparazzi — We get an inadvertent peek into Spike Lee’s childhood, and a common gynecological test gets new meaning.
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Cell Phone Drivers: Let Them Eat Pavement— The motor vehicle is the new house.
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Aging Brains Are Not for Sissies— If getting older means having a smaller brain with more oomph to the ounce, so be it.
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Islamic Scholars are Correct: Insurance is Usurious Gambling with Uncertainty — If we had to pay for health services with our talents and skills, some would surely perish – like news commentators, superdelegates, and Paris Hilton.
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Bush Still Doesn’t Know His Own History - or His Own Fears — The president said “some” want to negotiate with terrorists; his press secretary denied he meant Obama. Is Bush just running scared?
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Austrian Incest Monster Is A Reflection, Not An Exception — Our priorities and where we’re willing to put money, time, and effort speaks louder than words: We don’t really care what happens to children.
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Drink Up: Catpooccino Has Arrived!— Discuss the global food shortage over a pot of poo!
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Today In This Life
— We come within speaking distance of each other when we least expect it.
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A Marriage of Insecurities— My husband wrapped himself in a blanket of spreadsheets, feeling happy with there being enough money in the budget; but I still didn’t feel safe.
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Satire: Miss Manners Scolds President Bush — Judith Martin speculates on the origins of the incumbent after his indecorous regard for His Holiness.
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Those Incestuous Airlines — Oh, the icky irony: Delta and Northwest join the Mile High Club.
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Saving A Loveless, Sexless Marriage: The Miracle of Retrouvaille— In follow-up to her struggle to save but eventually lose her marriage, one woman recalls the painful and ultimately healing process.
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Land of the Free To Be Diseased and Infect Others — I have the right to decline immunization for my children - even as it snatches the right to be disease-free out from under your children.
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A Helping Hand: What To Do With Pent Up Feelings? — Piles of emotion will get painful just like piles of trash will get smelly. Deal with the cause so it doesn’t get worse.
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A Helping Hand: Teasing is not a Sign of Love — When the teaser sees you’re upset and still teases, he takes it from lighthearted to mean-spirited. In turn, he takes you from treasure to target.
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A First-Aid Kit for Gaming Widows — It should come as no surprise when a man who avoids housework suddenly avoids work altogether, or uses his work to fund his hobby.
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What Do You Know About St. Patrick's Day? — The luck of the Irish is all you’ll need.
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A Helping Hand: Fearing Rejection and Abandonment— It’s unfortunate when we define ourselves as someone who can only believe what others say about us and ignore any good we say about ourselves.
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More Bang for the Buck: Harvard Costs Less than Prison— For less money, we could be graduating rocket scientists instead of paroling rocks.
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Military Mental Health Assessment Didn't Include the Military— Officials of San Diego County don’t know why their session was unattended by the military. Some affiliated with the military, however, do know.
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For the Love of Stephen Kazmierczak’s Parent — For parents, regret doesn’t begin to describe the feeling of seeing what we’ve done wrong.
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Life’s Lie: You Can Be Anything You Want to Be— The idea that we’re all born with an unlimited list of occupational possibilities to pursue is a heartless assertion to hoist upon anyone.
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A Helping Hand: Success and Happiness Without Much Money— Success is what you’ve become. Happiness is how you feel about your success.
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This Voter Isn’t Listening – Yet— Until August, I don’t care where you stand. Until November, I won’t be sure you even can.
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Study: Curvy Women Are More Intelligent and Make Smarter Children— When Queen guitarist Brian May penned “Fat Bottomed Girls,” he might not have known they really do make the rockin’ world go 'round.
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Jesus Camp Speaks More of Society than Fanatical Religion— The camp’s children are disturbing, but not as disturbing as those children whose parents don’t know where they are right now.
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New Year’s Resolutions I Refuse to Make— I’ve never liked resolutions, especially the kind with a starting date.
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The English Language as a Weapon of Discrimination— If a tree falls in an American forest but there are no English-speakers around to hear it, does it still go “thud”?
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The Skewed Perspective of the Military Child— It’s true what they say. Sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Tuition Woes For Veterans and Their Dependents: What You Won't Be Told— The VA and every State offers tuition assistance to dependents of veterans. Unfortunately, the number of qualifiers is greater than the number of qualifying dependents.
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Black America From This White Perspective— It isn't who there are more of that puts them in control. The charge goes to those who are doing the most good.
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The Parents’ Curse Works— My kids are like me because my parents made sure of it.
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A Helping Hand: The Toxic Workplace — Employers do not have the right to subject hired employees to in-house fighting.
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Howl Much Do You Know About Halloween? — Who doesn’t love Halloween? Who doesn’t love a quiz? Who doesn’t love a Halloween quiz?
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Life's Lies: That Which Does Not Kill Us Makes Us Stronger— The truth is that some people never get into the second group.
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The Recording Industry's Win Spotlights Its Loss — The industry won a $220,000 judgment, but it still hasn’t found a way to stop illegal downloading.
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Lack of Green Card Trumps Yellow Ribbon — U.S. Immigration officials seek to deport the family members of active duty military while they are deployed.
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O’Reilly Stirs the Melting Pot With a Fork— Good words, no matter the source, are still good words. The same goes for funny words.
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EU and US Should Join the Monks of Myanmar — The world should not be sitting on news of peaceful protest being met with violence and death. Doing so is no different than sanctioning it.
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Myanmar Monks Aren't Kidding Around— Peaceful marches by thousands of Buddhist monks and citizens mark the 19th anniversary of a violent crackdown and further protest Myanmar’s military junta.
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When Mother Needs Mothering — Military spouses who have moved to and fro so many times know my pain. Please feel free to leave encouraging comments.
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A Helping Hand: Stay-at-Home Mom Chided for Using Daycare — Putting a child in daycare for even three days a week still leaves mom with a 144-hour workweek.
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A Helping Hand: Moving and Missing Old Friends, School— Moving and traveling may seem exotic and special to the kids in your new school. This is an advantage when making new friends.
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The Emperor’s New Baggy Pants— We don’t need laws to enforce decency. We need a society that refuses to accommodate the indecent.
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When I Was Britney Spears— My local community brought down the gavel on my parenting skills. Had that community been as large as Ms. Spears’, I’d have surely perished.
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A Helping Hand: Three Kids Under Three - Help!— The simpler things are, the more accomplished you'll feel. They'll remember the time you spent with them, not how tidy everything was.
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A Helping Hand: In Fear of Burglars— Put the same amount of time and effort into abating the fear as you have into feeling the fear.
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