Last year, I read her book “The Making of The African Queen, Or, How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind” (what a wonderful title).
Here’s a fun interview where Kate talks about her parents being feminists and marching with suffragettes.
Little backstory - my mother’s name was Bettye, she died of lung cancer (I was older than Sally is when she gets the news), but I am about the same age Sally would be. I got instructions for after her death, and she was very quiet and matter of fact as she explained the bank accounts, etc. So last night was very very…
Tangential: a lot of you guys probably saw that study that came out a little bit ago saying that when husbands get cancer, their wives stay put, and when wives get cancer, their husbands divorce them. I work in medical malpractice law, and I’m here to tell you, that’s true. Moreover, when there’s a wrongful death,…
Also this episode had me cheering for both Betty Draper AND Pete Campbell, what is this show doing to me
That is INFURIATING. I was a teacher and am now a nanny. So I am a career educator and, you know, raise children for a living. But my sister-in-law wouldn't let my husband and me take our niece to the pool last summer. She just...didn't want to let her daughter out of her sight even in my care. Did I mention that I am…
You might seriously market that to adult women!!! And Skype classes are a great idea!
mmm yes and no. About half the people I know work from home, including my sister. I remember going out and playing flashlight tag with my friends in the neighborhood for an hour after dinner. Yes, some neighborhoods are unsafe, but that's not universally true. And even if not after work, then the weekends ? There…
Yeah, there's this weird and persistent fantasy that you can just send your kid outdoors and say "bye kid!" for the day like it's the 1970s and there's a mom home in most houses keeping an eye on the local outdoors. Or that you can have this happy life involving kid swaps. Because nobody's working 60 hours a week…
My brother and his wife won't even leave the kids with me, and I've been an educator all my life. Some people completely define themselves by their children and can't be separated. It is a really weird thing to see.
That shit baffles me. There was an episode of Supernanny or Nanny 911 I watched once where the couple had two kids, 5 and 3 I think, who had never had a babysitter. Ever. Not even for a couple hours. They made the couple take the evening and go to dinner and the mom was dying to call home. With mentalities like that…
Yes, this! I became a mom at 32. By that time I was used to living life on my own terms, and besides having to be at work, doing whatever I wanted whenever I wanted. We were married for five years when #1 arrived. The sudden lack of freedom and privacy was shocking to me! That was the part that sucked. I love the kids…
Yeah, but you will/would still be surprised. What you learn by actually having them is that it's not the kind of thing that an intellectual knowing prepares you for. I have a brother with no kids who has this naive-but-judgey kind of "yes, of course it's hard" thing, and even though he tries to conceal it it's…
Skype class! What kind of machine do you have?
Screw the kids, all the adults want to learn! Can you come to Kansas and teach me? I can't figure out how to thread the damn machine and I just want to hem my %$^%^ pants.
It boggles my mind how over-scheduled kids are these days! I started a business teaching sewing classes last year where my selling point was that I will come to your house and teach your kids so you don't have to schlep your kids to me. I only had two families sign up for lessons. I am a highly educated woman who…
Definitely. I haven't parented teenagers but I've been an adult or child whilst people I have been close to have been teenagers and witnessed quite radical personality changes or less that thoughtful behaviour to put it nicely. I'm sure I could be very difficult as a teenager. I think once they mature a bit it's like…
As a middle school teacher, it always kills me how they want to hide how awesome they are. I love the age group because they have such big ideas and strong personalities, but they're NOT going to show those things to you intentionally. It's a (fun for me) challenge every day to catch them being awesome, but then the…