At this point, most of us have caucused or voted. There is no point in defending our preferred candidate. There will be a winner soon enough, and I won't presume to predict who that winner will be. Yes, I know that it looks like it will be Obama right now, but HRC has fought her way back before and I don't rule out the possibility of it happening again. At the end of the day, I don't care. I will support our nominee regardless.
If you live in one of the tiny hand full of states who are undecided, or if you are talking to an undecided democrat from one of those states, by all means promote your candidate. However, I would like to honor the fact that both Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama have fought the good fight. Both of them have many, many devoted supporters. The nominee cannot win without the other candidate's supporters.
I've been thinking about food lately. Actually, I think about food all the time, since I'm the person in our house who shops for it and prepares it and we're all big eaters.
But what I've been thinking about more is how normal it is for women not to eat, how a woman can be engaging in very bizarre behavior when it comes to food and no one really bats an eye. For example:
I work with a woman who is thin to the point where her shoulder bones jut out. I seriously could put my fingers around her ankle - and I don't have big hands. She keeps a big jar of candy in her office and routinely brings in homemade cupcakes for the staff. But she never eats the treats herself, at least not in view of anyone else in the office.
Another woman I work with, whom I see only occasionally, gets thinner and thinner and thinner each time, like she is slowly disappearing. This is a bright, dynamic person who is very smart and engaging. But I took her out to lunch at a very nice restaurant and had to sit there while she pretended to eat. I seriously don't think she took more than one bite of her food.
To refresh your memory,she's the St.Louis Mom who created a fake MySpace profile as a teenage boy to torment her daughter's former 13 year old friend.. The girl she was sending messages to ended up committing suicide.I know we talked about this when it happened. Any thoughts?
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I'm very concerned about the split in the Democratic party between Obama and Hillary supporters. If we don't elect a Democrat this year we are looking at possible World War, the loss of Women's Rights, Civil Rights being rolled back to the stone age, and an end to an effective environmental movement.
While it's disappointing to some that a woman won't be running for President as our nominee in the General Election, we must realize that we can't endanger the future of this country by staying home or voting for McCain.
There are Supreme Court Justices hanging on for dear life so they don't allow Bush/Cheney to stack the court with more extremely conservative Judges. We can't allow the division in the party to hand the election to John McBush. These justices probably won't last another 4 years, this is our only shot at keeping the court balanced.
It's time to come together as a party and support our Presumptive Nominee. It's also important to do your research and understand the issues that we as women and mothers are facing. Talk to your friends, family, and children about what a McCain Presidency would mean. Please don't allow the division in the Democratic Party to hand McCain the election.
SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Supreme Court ruled today that same-sex couples should be permitted to marry, rejecting state marriage laws as discriminatory.
The state high court's ruling was unlikely to end the debate over gay matrimony in California. A group has circulated petitions for a November ballot initiative that would amend the state Constitution to block same-sex marriage, and the Legislature has twice passed bills to authorize gay marriage. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed both.
Most recently, I heard this from another dad at the YMCA during my daughter's t-ball practice. "She's not dating until she's 30, or until she meets a guy who's a better shot then me."
I understand that this is not meant to be literal. My husband has said it. It's something I even hear from men with no children. But accuse me of being anally PC if you will, it's not a line of humor I find particularly funny.
It wasn't an appropriate setting for a philosophical argument, so I said jokingly "that means having a daughter at home until she dies. Moping around in your basement, pasty, depressed..."
"That's fine!"
I don't think our kids get much civic education any more. This fall presents an opportunity to have a presidential election in school that could pattern itself after the one that will be on the ballot.
Did you ever have a presidential election when you were in school?
I got interested in the idea of bringing this up at my son's school, and it turns out there are state and national initiatives with materials available for participating.
When I got my son's t-ball schedule I winced in pain. Two games a week? Two precious evenings a week given over to a sport? And in May? When we have so much else going on?
"Don't worry," my husband said. "He'll get bored with it. We won't be going to all the games."
But you know what? None of us has gotten bored, least of all my son.
This is an open thread for those who are training for a race of any shape or kind. Post your training regime for this week and come back to report on your progress. Got a question on training, walking, running, biking, swimming or anything to do with race preparation? Post it here - someone will know the answer!
At 22 months, this was the first year Lucy could actually make me a gift for mother's day. Her class painted flower pots, and hers was smeared with purple and green, which is coincidentally one of my favorite color combinations. She and I stopped at the "flower store" (our favorite little nursery) on the way home and picked out a hot pink dahlia to plant in it. Today, about 90 seconds after planting and admiring it, I dropped it on the concrete sidewalk and broke that adorable little pot into several pieces. At which point I also fell to pieces. DH promised that he would glue it together for me, but I'm doubtful.
I'm fighting the "what a crappy mother I am" feelings, mostly successfully. The "what a clumsy ass mother I am" feelings are still lingering... So much for the "I'll have this pot when I'm 90" sentimentality I had been harboring.
Did you know that Julia Ward Howe also wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic? Women of that era who suffered through the Civil War, knew just as we do today that matters of war and peace are never simple. It's easy to read the Mother's Day Proclamation and think of it as a naive sentiment, but really looking back at Julia Ward Howe's life, I think she and her contemporaries well knew just how much they were asking.
Happy Mother's Day to all the Mothers Who Talk, and to all the other moms out there.
I realize that this is the third year in a row that I've posted Julia Ward Howe's beautiful Mother's Day Proclamation. Well, there's still a war going on, so why stop now?
You may already know this, but I'll repeat it anyway: This is not a Hallmark holiday. It's an activist holiday, founded by women who had lost sons in the civil war.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."
