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While I am joyful on the whole, I am sorry that Justice Kennedy found it necessary to say in his decision that the children of unmarried parents are "relegated to a more difficult and uncertain family life." And so while we celebrate the right to marry, I'd also like to take a moment to celebrate the less-heralded but equally important right to divorce (or to raise children on your own). Because difficult as divorce may be, it beats the hell out of a horrible marriage.
I am glad that today's decision makes it possible for more people to marry. I hope it also helps ease the process of ending those marriages if and when the time comes.
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Heartbreaking, probably even if you weren't following the story of the Virginia Quarterly Review a few years back.
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Also, dear Italians, I will send you some money once I get back to the place that has my PayPal password. <3
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If I had a thing to give you, I would tell you one more time / That the world is always turning toward the morning.
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I actually have to stop playing this on repeat, because it makes me cry. But I'm putting it out there because usually if I need to hear it, someone else does, too.
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I hate how none of my comfort books are comforting anymore, because they are all about people who did things and weren't parents. Or who did things before being parents.
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Me to patron, via email: Please return these DVDs that are missing the discs. Patron to me: My ex-girlfriend has those. You should call her parole officer if you need them. Me to patron: Please note that items checked out on your card are your responsibility, per our policy. Patron to me: Let me know if you'd like to discuss it over dinner sometime.
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"I tried to explain this to our mother, but she hated long sentences and judged you on the first few words." --Nina Stibbe, Man at the Helm
Yeah--this is in a town about 20 miles north of us, but I figured it would make a good practice mini-trip for us. I'd like for us to be able to start driving places to visit people, but I want to see how we do on some shorter trips first.
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I went to this small but very moving gathering for International Conscientious Objectors Day, which I didn't know was a thing, but which I will certainly be recognizing from now on.
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Too many dang SEXY JANE EYRE adaptations out there, thatâÂÂs the problem. Friends, I donâÂÂt object to sexiness qua sexiness, but Jane Eyre is a book about ugly people. If I accomplish one thing in my life, let it be the increased acceptability in casting the ugly and the weird-looking in period dramas. We would all be the better for it. Interesting things happen to people with bad bone structure, you know, and thereâÂÂs something particularly ridiculous about watching Babe after Babe deliver the âÂÂpoor, obscure, plain, and littleâ monologue to some smooth-faced Male Babe in a billowing cravat.
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Single motherhood is hating Friday nights the way you used to hate Sunday nights. Although actually I still hate Sunday nights.
I was greeted, upon visiting mychart.uihealthcare.org, by a photo of a smiling, white, heterosexual family. They're lovely people, I'm sure, but as I'm sure you know, LESS THAN HALF of children now live in a such a family (see http://www.pewresearch.or... ).
I spent my pregnancy logging into MyChart and being told that my Health Issues consisted, among other things, of "SINGLE PARENT/UNPLANNED PREGNANCY." Almost half of pregnancies in the United States are unplanned (see http://www.cdc.gov/reprod... ). It may well be that having an unintended pregnancy has unintended health outcomes, but it seemed crass in the extreme to point out that it was something wrong with me (and, presumably, almost half the other women receiving maternity care at the UIHC).
Your patients are all different kinds of people. I'm one of the more privileged of them, actually, which is why I'm taking the time to write this note to you. Medical care is supposed to be non-judgmental, although that has rarely been my experience. It would be nice, however, if that changed. Choosing a different image to greet MyChart users, while a tiny change, would be a good start.
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Walt, huh--the link was working fine when I posted it. Will have to check tomorrow when I'm not on my phone.
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"Dear Ploughshares Forum: I never thought anything like this would ever happen to me.... And then he gave me his business card, an invitation to MacDowell, and a Tin House scholarship, and taught me that secret handshake you can use to get in The New Yorker. I ran into the bathroom and toweled myself off, knowing I’d never be this happy again."
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