Pen Name Jane: Recent Episodes

Katherine Shirer and Chris Sansbury

A sometimes humorous, always reflective, look at motherhood and parenting.

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My husband likes to think genes are chosen by a war between the X and the Y chromosome. His genes, he says, are dominant, and slaughtered my genes.

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Chris Sansbury, columnist for dunedin.patch.com dishes out the truth about arguing with your spouse after you have kids.

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Chris Sansbury, columnist for dunedin.patch.com writes a letter to herself 13 years in the future when she is the mother of two teenagers.

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Katherine Shirer, Pen Name Jane columnist for Patch.com, shares some thoughts on maternal anger.

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Katherine Shirer, columnist for Patch.com, explores the burden of deployment on a military family.