A woman’s work–particularly her email inbox–is never ever ever done. I managed, yesterday, to finish another chapter of Christopher Lasch’s Women and the Common Life. This chapter was called “The Sexual Division of Labor, the Decline of Civic Culture, and the Rise of the Suburbs” and for real, I highlighted almost the whole thing. I kept wanting to read it out loud to whoever was in the room, which only made all my children and husband roll their eyes and... Read more
It’s the only way to be really brave and stunning. This seems really important–Oprah tried to interview Adele and the LA Times was underwhelmed: Anticipation for the special was palpable: the 33-year-old, one of the world’s bestselling artists, has been on a six-year hiatus — in which time she raised a son, married and divorced, and lost 100 pounds. In short, plenty of fresh material for a new album full of big feelings, much of which she sung during the... Read more
It is a cold, windy day here in Bing and the dahlias are long gone. Time to batten down the hatches for winter. We have a lot of work to do around the house to keep out the wintery breezes. But before we get cracking on that important task, here is a shortish, rambling podcast about, well, let’s see, what did we talk about? Matt has been following the Rittenhouse trial. I said some things about teacups. We both complained... Read more
Well, it’s raining a whole lot, and today Kelly announced last week that she’s not going to host 7 Quick Takes anymore. This is an eminently reasonable decision, as there are only like five of us left, dragging ourselves to a Friday post some decades on. Honestly, I had no idea so many years had gone by. I raise my glass to her for persisting all this time, and for being such a great blogger and book writer and all-around... Read more
Well, I’ve just spent a remarkably long time watching the French president make a speech and put a wreath at the grave of someone super important who, as far I can make out, seems to have been exhumed for such a time as this. I wasn’t really awake enough to grasp the details. I do like listening to President Macron make speeches, even if I can’t understand quite everything he is going on about. He speaks very elegant and soothing... Read more
I was about to start blogging yesterday when I realized that I had to rush the Baby Kitty off to be made into the kind of cat that doesn’t think about other cats “in that way” if you know what I mean. We really had to give him a name before this critical moment so we decided on Peter—Peter Sancho Panza Whimsey. The vet wrote down Peter the Cat, which is good, because we know a lovely baby named Peter,... Read more
I am so backed up on Instagram. I have like three weeks of pictures I need to post, most especially so I have some stuff to put here. Maybe later today. In the meantime, Matt and I have done a goodly lengthen podcast about how much Matt hates the time change, my thoughts and feelings on the latest Revoice conference, why the historical context of things matters, and why it’s ok to be biologically female. For some reason, I feel... Read more
It’s Friday! I bet I can find some takes lying around the place. One This weekend is daylight “savings” of course. So that’s going to be fun. Well, it’ll be fine now, but much later on in the year, we will all rue the day. Honestly, I don’t mind either way the hours are, I just dis-enjoy them changing all the time. In this new era of the Self, I feel like we should all be able to pick our... Read more
I should not be blogging on account of how I accidentally took two whole days off this week (so far), but I just feel like treating myself, so let’s look at a #thursdaythoughts meme. There were so many good ones this morning, but this one seems as good a place as any to land: So first of all, I wasn’t even planning on trying to be “perfect” on this bright, crisp morning. As a Christian, I know I can’t do... Read more
Me contemplating the Metaverse. Well, I was up late helping a child with some sort of school thing, and half listening to Matt update me on election returns. It looks like the R’s swept our local area, with only one or two exceptions. I think we trend red in general, but not this red. It’s so interesting to me how the tide swings back and forth. It certainly must say something about our expectations of ourselves, and of our elected... Read more
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