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I’m glad blogs don’t have feelings. Otherwise, I think No Points for Style would be feeling sad and lonely and neglected right about now. But! No hole. Not a bit. I would forgive you for assuming I disappeared because I slipped and fell into the depths of depression since that’s the usual cause of . . . → Read More: I did not disappear for the reason you probably think I disappeared and that is an awesomely and excellently fabulous thing. You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. —Buddha I began with the hypothesis that exposing . . . → Read More: Now We’re Back To the Beginning This post by Alex at Late Enough led me to this post by Neil at Citizen of the Month which led me to this piece by Neil Genzlinger at the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Genzlinger’s piece is called “The Problem With Memoirs” and opens with the memorable line, “[a] moment of silence, please, . . . → Read More: Isolation, Connection, and the Infinitely Recurring Memoir Controversy  I don’t usually give advice. Even if you ask me for advice, I might shrug because really, why would I think that I know more than you about anything? But grief…I know a lot about that. It’s a shitty thing on which to be an expert, but that doesn’t mean I should let that . . . → Read More: Aftermath If you aren’t steeped in the mental health blogosphere, you probably missed the story of a Waunakee, WI high school dance team’s recent prize-winning performance, “We Get Crazy.” The LaCrosse Tribune says that the routine featured “all 18 dancers bouncing to hip-hop music, their hair wild, heavy black makeup on their snarling faces, and . . . → Read More: More Similar Than Different A brief list of some of the most controversial issues in the US: Socialism. Abortion. Terrorism. Gun control. Racism. Same-sex marriage. Motherhood. Yes, motherhood. My friends, we’ve been played, duped into participating in a pretend conversation that feels very important. When Amy Chua‘s new book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother was excerpted at . . . → Read More: Amy Chua’s Tiger Mother: An Exercise In Distraction  21 comments  Adrienne Pontificates, Leading With My Chin  Amy Chua, Ayelet Waldman, bad mothers, battle hymn of the tiger mother, child care, culture wars, discipline, economic justice, freedom, good mothers, homelessness, judgment, mommy wars, mothering, mothering debates, New york Times, parenting, poverty, strict parents, Wall Street Journal, welfare On the route I take to Carter’s school, there’s a short stretch of road that runs through a neighborhood. It’s pretty heavily trafficked, but just two lanes, and people go flying through there like it’s the damn autobahn or something. I’m always careful to go drive the 25 mph speed limit because a) there . . . → Read More: Unclear On the Concept Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay Perhaps my family seemed a little callous . . . → Read More: Contrary to the Natural Order I don’t want to hurt my children, so I am not honest about the pain and anger I sometimes feel about being a parent. I don’t want to hurt my parents, so I am not honest about the wounds from which I am struggling to recover. I don’t want to hurt my sister, so . . . → Read More: I don’t want to hurt… The summer after I finished the fourth grade, I spent a week at YMCA summer camp. I got to my cabin and put my duffel bag on my bunk and looked around. There wasn’t even one familiar face among the other campers. On a whim, I decided I would be someone different. That someone . . . → Read More: Faker  |
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