The horror on the Taconic involving Diane Schuler, the drunk-driving mother responsible for the deaths of eight people, including her own, has turned into a media mutiny on moms who drink. One journalist, Ada Calhoun, in her recent
TIME article "Mommies Who Drink: No Joking After the Schuler Tragedy," states that mom blogs and sites whose titles reflect mothers who make light of needing the occasional drink, are now uncool and unfunny. She infers even worse; that indirectly, these mothers who drink are responsible for these kinds of deaths.
My heart bleeds for the families and friends of all the victims. In particular, I ache for the lone survivor of this emotional wreckage, Ms.Schuler's five year old son. But, in spite of my heartache, my blog title, merlotmom, and my sense of humor persist.
This does not make me a bad mother.
It does not make me a blogger with poor taste.
