It’s easier to take a long view when you’ve had a few extra decades to do it. I was way more upset about turning 30 than I was about 40 or 50. But letting go of your self-image as a ‘young adult’ doesn’t mean you have to conform, or relinquish curiosity and fun, or give up on goals. It’s not that I had it easy - I’ve …
I’m really sorry - this is one distinct downside. People, male and female, fall off a hiring cliff after the big 5-0. Awful.
Y’all crack me up. 35? The thirties are the shit! The forties are the shit! Fifties? Sure, the hangovers get worse and hair goes grey, but shit - Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the topsoil is pretty good!
To be fair, he only blabbed to his parents & siblings. They confided in us, wondering what to do about it.
This has already been attempted in a very gentle form.
Why still friends? They’re a wonderful family, we’ve known them for 35 years, and they have two other kids who are totally reasonable and who are also squicked out by the eldest’s, uh, oversharing. He and his partners seem to think it’s some kind of body and sex positivity. He’s an otherwise really sweet kid who I’ve…
Yeah, I think we all feel the same way. Hard to de-friend your adult children though. Especially when they are otherwise lovely people. It would just be nice if, you know, he could respect some boundaries.
Name the MF-ing assholes who do this work instead of quitting. If you sign on to do this kind of work, you should know only sleepless nights. You are complicit, and when justice comes, it will come for you.
“Why she bought a place in New York: “A lot of my stress came from coming on and off a plane, and I didn’t want to be doing that on my time off.”
I just want to say, ditto for my grandmother. She passed in 2011, age 101, with a framed letter on her wall from President Obama congratulating her on her centennial, and comforted by the notion that things were finally changing for the better. So at least there’s that.
“...her language became the focus of the segment as opposed to the message; it was optimal rant bait for folks who value decorum over sincerity and will do basically anything to avoid talking about gun control.”
I KNOW THAT.
Agreed.
I’m not his demographic, and you won’t ever catch me inappropriately rapping along to his work, but the man is a piercing, roaring talent.
Someone here responded that one of the Red Hen employees tweeted about the incident first, and Sanders only responded when asked about it later.