Eh.

I am so sorry you are all going through this. I can’t offer any personal experience myself, since I am single and never had kids (never thought I wanted them, and come to find out, can’t have them. Unfriendly uterus/ovary shutdown.)

I’m so sorry. I hope you are all on the other side of it. Sending Good Thoughts your way.

I’m a simple girl. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh. hyuk hyuk hyuk.

yeah, ‘Eh’ is at best snark, at worst rude. And from the editor no less.

That was a joke? Huh I would not have thought. Why is it funny? I don’t mean to be facetious or rude, I just don’t get it.

In fact - IN FACT - you are making me think about other films. Did anyone dismiss Nic Cage’s character in “Leaving Las Vegas”? What about that film critic’s darling, “Sideways”, with the two male characters lurching and drinking their way through wine country, suffering their midlife whiny-boy issues? Those two…

Agreed. The movie isn’t being sold as ‘Schindler’s List’ or anything, so it’s pretty dismissive to characterize the whole arc of the film’s issue(s) as ‘miniscule.’ Her experience is the whole POINT.

Yeah just a few days ago I was pointing out a post where, the writer completely buried the lede, and the whole thing read like fan-girl gushing. I got a LOT of crap about my criticism from other posters. One asked me, “Who the hell are you to complain?” Well, I’m a writer, and an editor, and a proofreader, but most…

For YOU.

Me too.

Jesus christ. I am so, so sorry for your heartbreak.

I’m really glad you got to visit with someone you are clearly a fan of (Yay You!). However, you are a columnist, right? Charged with reporting first and writing everything else second?

Agreed. One seven-year term.

London is like Seattle, weather-wise. Crap for nine months of the year, but summers are brilliant.

Okay but what I want to know is, obviously she will have to do all the fancy curtseying and all in public, but I wonder how they are when they are in private? Do they just flop on the couches and hang out like everyday families do?

An excuse to post a picture of one of the foxes that visit my Connecticut Ave ‘backyard’ (otherwise known as DC’s Rock Creek Park):

Ah, thanks! I read the article as meaning, like, $50K ‘fee’, as opposed to a pledge for fundraising (or buying a table, etc.) Thanks for the clarification.

No. You’re asserting some kind of meaning into an unfair, meaningless fate. Everyone is handed a roll of the dice - simple and genius alike - and you get what you get.