July 2012
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June 2012
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My mom just said I have a “slammin’ body.”
Mom. Where did you learn that?
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“Before we get too excited about the Supreme Court upholding the Affordable Care...”
– Kenyon Farrow
I work in a Medicaid-funded clinic in the deep South. This is relevant.
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“Women are big financial winners in this decision … The first is the...”
– from a friend’s facebook page- don’t have the original source, sorry!
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But hey, at least I'll have health insurance!
GO OBAMA GO! Go Affordable Care Act Go!
On a side note, I’ve been proud of my country more times under the Obama administration than I ever have in the previous 29 years of my life. So that’s saying something.
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You know what's not a good idea for stress...
Reading about your heart condition on the internet. Bad idea. But I can’t stop.
Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.
The good news is that it seems like the type of ablation they do for this condition is non-surgical, meaning that they don’t have to stop the heart or do any cuts- instead they run wires through several arteries and use radio frequencies to burn the tissue of the...
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Somehow the fireworks stand in this gas station parking lot seems like a bad idea.
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Sometimes I love my job. I just had the coolest discussion with a 16 year old football player about hubris and Greek tragedies. He is incredibly stubborn and makes bad decisions even though he knows better. He gets stuck in his ways and refuses to change course even when he gets good advice, just because he doesn’t want to admit to being wrong. I’ve been trying to help him see that he...
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Today, in Warm Fuzzies at Work:
I have a new client. She’s a teenage girl living in the deep South with her gay grandmothers. For various, horrible reasons she had to be removed from her parents’ home at a very young age and has been living with her paternal grandmother and her grandmother’s partner since then.
This little girl is straight-up proud of her gay grannies. She was wearing a rainbow bracelet and...
“Wounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is...”
– Rachel Naomi Remen (via internal-acceptance-movement)
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“Fertilized eggs don’t have much in common with flooded homes, but Sen. Rand Paul...”
– Today in small-government conservatism. (via motherjones)
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“Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not...”
– Nora Ephron, Wellesley’s Class of 1996 commencement speech.
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Mean Girls is on E! right now.
This has been another PSA.
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I feel like a dork for even writing a post about...
But, listen.
I have the most amazing thermos in the world. It’s this one:
I bought it on clearance for 10 bucks at Target, without any idea that it is LITERALLY THE MOST MAGICAL THING IN THE WORLD. I can put water in it first thing in the morning, accidentally leave it in my hot car for an entire day, and the water inside is still ice cold at the end of the day. I actually don’t...
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“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
– Charles Baudelaire
Every Sunday
Sundays are our domestic days. This is how it usually goes down: we wake up early, eat a big breakfast, then I work out while Ryan plays video games. After that, Ryan cleans and I cook. It’s a great system, because I hate cleaning and Ryan would die of starvation without me.
Today we woke up early and I baked a Whole Wheat Dutch Baby, which we ate with scrambled eggs and turkey sausage....
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Sometimes I just walk up to my boyfriend and yell “I command you to embrace me!!!”
And he does.
And then I feel powerful.
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Hey guess what?
We just went grocery shopping and bought a lot of fresh fruits, veggies, lean meats, and whole grains- and it cost a lot of money! Even with a store membership and discounts on almost everything we bought. I am eternally grateful that we can afford to eat well, and I try to never take it for granted. Judging others for not being able to do the same is just pure Grade-A Shitbaggery. So all of these...
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“There is no point trying to create a healthy body if all you’re really doing is...”
– curvecreation (via body-peace)
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iwriteaboutfeminism asked: If she does it for the purpose of getting people to act...I have more of a problem with that, although I do think it's legitimate that she'd want people to do something about the problem. But I clearly wouldn't want her to end her life, or feel she had to end her life, in order to get people to notice her and the issues she struggled with.
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My verdict on Brave.
Ouch, right in the feelings!
But seriously, I have so many thoughts but mostly I am THRILLED to see a Disney movie with a strong mother-daughter relationship and no romantic plot line to speak of. It was just really, really refreshing.
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THANK YOU
Thanks guys! I definitely would have to walk a delicate line and make sure it’s not sensationalized. I will probably draw from my own experience here, which I think will help. And I agree- I think kids and teens can handle a lot more than we think. Just look at Grimm’s fairy tales for example. The woman would be killing herself out of desperation and hopelessness, like pretty much...
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I have a question about my book.
Maybe y’all can help me figure it out.
So there’s the element of a women’s uprising in the story (my protagonist inadvertently starts a movement that leads the women in the village to fight back against an outdated social structure that keeps them subjugated.) Anyway, I had the idea today that one of the women would commit suicide in a public way, and that this would be sort of...
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