It is another very gray May day in the Northeast. It’s been raining buckets and I keep having to check and make sure all my seedlings are not waterlogged. They are pining–as I am–for some sun. In place of that, we’ve done a shortish podcast about, hmmm, I’m not sure what it’s about. We remark generally on the state of the world, on the misogyny of men, on how there is no such thing as “ethical porn,” and on how... Read more
I’m over at Stand Firm this morning. Today, apparently, is “Birthing Person” Day, and the prevailing manner of marking the occasion seems to be people posting pictures of “birthing creatures” in the wild–fluffy “mother” birds with baby birds under their wings, a cheetah “mother” screaming at her cubs, that sort of thing. That seems about right. Mother’s Day is so fraught. It is that terrible moment–whether you are a “Birthing Person” (BP), or a “mother” or whatever–to contemplate your own... Read more
Oh, is it Friday? And It’s already nine o’clock. I don’t think I can get all the way up to seven takes this morning, but maybe we can get to one or two. One The fact is, I used up all my blogging time reading this long piece. Not being the least bit sciency, I have no idea if any, or some of it, is true. But it is a bracing read, and terrifying. I commend it to you, at... Read more
Update: The tweet I talk about below, attributed to Chelsea Clinton, is probably not by her. Some nefarious person must have made it up. Still, I do recommend reading the Bible and believing in the Resurrection of the Dead, and sleeping in the middle of the day. I am waffling between two opinions this morning. On the one hand, I discovered the trend of the nap dress for the first time. From Elle: Also, these dresses are just…nightgowns? My arguments... Read more
This is fun. Instagram is thinking of a way to let you hide all your hashtags so that you can still market to your “friends” and followers but without them knowing about it quite so overtly: Wong offered the perfect explanation for why Instagram would make this change, explaining that people and brands are misusing hashtags in order to promote their content: “#because #people #like #posting #with #captions #like #this #in #hope #of #boosting #the #engagement #but #it #ruins #the... Read more
I know I linked this yesterday—did I? can’t even remember—but then I went back and watched parts of it again, and then wandered around youtube finding all the clips of Celine Dion singing that song at different points in her career, including the one where she broke down after so many people in her family died. I don’t think I have ever actually listened on purpose to Celine Dion ever in my life. This is more my speed. But I... Read more
Good Moaning. It is a gray chilly day here in Bing as we start out a new month. Every month seems to last an eternity now. To console ourselves we’ve done a goodly-ish lengthed podcast about the epic flameouts of Rachel Hollis and Josh Duggar. We also talk about the Desiring God article about husbands being prophet, priest, and king for their families. Hopefully, it will set you up nicely for the week. Here’s the Desiring God piece. Here are... Read more
I’m over at Stand Firm this morning. I had three different posts started for this morning—the lections are so wonderful, one could go in so many different directions—but then I woke up to another tempest on Twitter. The Twittersphere moves so frustratingly fast that having started to write about Rachel Hollis, and then sort of pivoting to Josh Duggar, this morning I found that everyone is angry with Desiring God and so I am again at sea. This is why it is... Read more
Well, here we’ve come to the end of another week. I suppose there must be some takes jangling around there somewhere. One My house is still in chaos, but we’ve managed to fall into a sort of a routine of taking ourselves off to my mother’s house in the mornings and coming back in the late afternoon to pick up the pieces of our shattered minds. Wait, is that a song? Part of the routine is moving seedlings in and... Read more
I was wandering around youtube yesterday looking for more in the genre of What I Eat In A Day of the Japanese variety: which, for whatever inexplicable reason, is my latest kick. I don’t actually watch a lot of anything, even on youtube, but I do find it very soothing at the end of the day when I am too exhausted to move to lie back and gape at an elegantly edited ten minutes of someone eating stuff that looks... Read more
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