On New Moms and Teenage Boys: More in Common Than Previously Thought
Ah, this was such a nice read. I have a much younger brother (he started kindergarten the day I started college) and this captures something about our dynamic as well.
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On Maurice Sendak, 1928 - 2012
Go to the wikipedia page and read the list of books he illustrated. We all (I hope?) know Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen, but he shaped the visual imagination of my childhood in ways I'd completely forgotten about. The Wheel on the School! Little Bear!
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On Truly Upsetting
Hands up if the Beastie Boys were the secret standard by which you judged the relative coolness of high school boyfriends/crushes.
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On Add It to the List of Dream Jobs
@jen325 It's a bad habit! Not only do you wind up stabbing yourself in the head when you try and take your shirt off, you lose things that way-- I bought the rare book staff at my library a box of pencils when I finished my work there, to make up for the many, many I walked out with in my hair.
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On Rufus Wainwright and Helena Bonham Carter
@MmeLibrarian Yes about the stereotypes... but she's reading The Way We Live Now at the end!
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On Rufus Wainwright and Helena Bonham Carter
@honeybunchesofoats It's because his voice isn't the same after the meth. :/
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On The Patient is Non-Compliant
OMG, the poor woman who had to have the IUD taken out then put back in! I'm sorry, sister!
Personally, I'd have sat through any number of pelvic exams rather than deal with the doctor who would only prescribe me BC on a month-to-month basis, and only so long as I lost weight. (Once, when I asked to use the restroom before an appointment, she accused me of trying to trick the scales. She also got angry when I complained she pinched me with the speculum. She was not a good doctor.)
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On [Maybe] Good Books That Defined You
@Lisa @twitter My father absolutely LOVES the Prelandra books and still holds hope that I'll come round to them eventually.
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On [Maybe] Good Books That Defined You
As a teen, Mists of Avalon. In college, Griel Marcus' Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century. Post-college, Mayakovsky and Frank O'Hara.
And, because today is May Day, Red Emma Speaks, by Emma Goldman. I pulled it off the library shelf at random one long summer when I was about fourteen, and it was my earliest and still most influential encounter with the history of the radical left.
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On Some Options for Officiating a Wedding
Yay for ULC and officiants who actually know the couple! I officiated my best friend's wedding and it was awesome, so much better than being a bridesmaid.
However, a pro tip for brides and grooms: if you are making A Statement in your use of a non-religious officiant, please give him or her the heads up. It's not that I minded that the groom's family spent the ceremony scowling at me because I was a twenty-four-year-old woman and not Reverend Great Uncle Paul, but it would have been nice to know what I was walking into ahead of time.