Eve Tushnet
A thing I wrote for a series at Acculturated. As you know, I’m not actually that guilty about this. Anyway, if you would like to see glorious skating, tacky skating, or gloriously tacky skating, check it out! Read more
A thing I wrote for a series at Acculturated. As you know, I’m not actually that guilty about this. Anyway, if you would like to see glorious skating, tacky skating, or gloriously tacky skating, check it out! Read more
Don’t steal snakes. (Actually an empathetic piece as well as very funny–not surprising considering the byline.) Read more
YES. Via Ratty. Read more
My new piece at Acculturated, continuing the marriage & family series with a look at What It Means to Be Daddy: Fatherhood for Black Men Living Away from Their Children and Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce. This is a piece where I really felt the word-count constraints. You guys should absolutely pick up these books, since I know I didn’t do them justice. Read more
Declining fertility means not just fewer children, but much less rich and complex family structures in general. A culture in which one’s parents have one or no siblings is one very nearly without aunts and uncles. The University of Maine’s Robert Milardo has called these “the forgotten kin” arguing that “aunts and uncles complement the work of parents, sometimes act as second parents, and sometimes form entirely unique brands of intimacy.” —more Read more
You don’t have to rely on your own strength. You’re relying on God’s strength. Trust in His righteousness, sacrifice, love, and power, not your own. I feel like this relates to my other Advent post from today. Also this, from Isaiah: Trust in the LORD forever! For the LORD is an eternal Rock. He humbles those in high places, and the lofty city he brings down; He tumbles it to the ground, levels it with the dust. It is trampled... Read more
Let’s say that you want to be more generous during this Advent. So you walk outside your door, feeling all resolution-y and tinsel-trimmed, and somebody asks you for money and you say, “Of course!” and then… look in your wallet and all you have is your debit card. This is basically how I live, in more ways than dealing with beggars. It’s obviously related to the overpromising thing I already talked about, but the problem here is a little different,... Read more
Ho, ho, ho! (Link via TKB.) Read more
“D— You Autocorrect!” Best Texts of 2012. Via the Rattus. Read more
This post, unlike the first two, is about something I consistently do wrong when trying to help others. It’ll be short because I think the problem is really easy to describe once I’ve been able to notice it: I overpromise and underdeliver. I say that there’s probably a way I can help and then either I was much too optimistic about what is actually available or I get overwhelmed and do a perfunctory job. There are two points to make... Read more
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