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I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.
About Me
Blogs I Like to Read
- Amy's Very Cool Homeschooling Family
- Ann Douglas
- Blogging Baby
- David Rhoden
- Domestic Psychology
- First Impressionist
- Jonathan Hickman
- Lemuria Books
- Mamas Ink
- Marrit Ingman
- Martini Made
- Meagan Francis
- Mo's Journal
- Remembering Ward
- Suburban Turmoil
- The Vol Abroad
- This Woman's Work
- Women's Health News
- Zygote Daddy
Good Stuff on Being a Parent/Family Life
Books I"ve written/contributed to
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- partygirl
- i've decided...
- at the circumcision
- baby (girl) names, redux
- emma?
- yes, freaky
- mother's little helper
- children don't walk
- the baby is a.....
- damn, i am tired
- bring. them. home...NOW
- current reading
- No title
- breastfeeding: a pain worse than childbirth?
- goodbye cinco
- the secret
- stuff i am looking for
- relief
- on the turntable today
- current reading
- etta's doll
- baby gender
- the creeping crud
- foodstuffs rant
- fern care?
- an unsuccessful evening
- cutting the cord
- ted & sylvia
- just 'cause i miss them so damn much
- a plan
- choosing a baby sling
- different
- for the record
- congrats to bee!
- i miss my kids
- worm care instructions
- more on fear of the big, bad birthing ball
- i miss my supershorthair
- a little bitter
- further indulging my sylvia plath obsession...
- henry
- falling off the dangerous birthing ball
- lindsay's birth story
- sleepovers
- belly update
- presenting...the belly
- nicu nightmares
- hot mom
- awesome vintageness
- clooney to adopt
- congrats!
- how i parent
- maternal thrombophilia and persistent pulmonary hy...
- angelina jolie tries to one-up me
- one of many reasons i will never be a southern bap...
- halfway
- white & tasty
- "now, most like breastmilk!"
- are we crazy?
- busy
- separate bedrooms
- at suburban turmoil today
- giving birth
- salma hayek pregnant
- new FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE!!!
- tap...tap...tap
- hollywood farm girl
- an extraordinary life or, my grandmother kicks it ...
- color me jealous
- me and the sibs
- walter
- a good man
- waiting for daisy
- on the turntable today
- current reading
- baby hair and heartburn
- next time, i will stop to help
- kids in the (knoxville) 'hood
- it got me
- new shins record?
- nesting
- sick
- i heart marshall crenshaw
- the filthiest wal-mart
- sleeeepy
- twins are the new third-world orphans!!
- this name might give the kid an attitude
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2 comments:
It's rather cliched to say this, but...
The Bell Jar is, by far, the best book about mental illness ever written.
Following the death of my Dad in 1999, I had a complete and total nervous breakdown, with the requisite attempt to take my own life.
The Bell Jar gets everything, and I mean everything, right. My personal favorite bit from that book is when Mother brings Esther the roses for her birthday, and Esther acts like an ungrateful little bint about them. The Mother breaks down in tears, so desperate to have something approaching normalcy with her daughter again, and Esther realizes with dawning horror what a selfish, self-serving, self-centered person her depression has fashioned her into. That is a key discovery for any mentally ill person...that the illness does not affect you and only you, and that it very often can actually be more painful for the people around you.
I like Plath, too. The big black book of her unabridged journals is great. Because of Sivvy, I have adopted a word. When someone is being a smarmy flirt, he or she is being a "smiler." Ted Hughes was a smiler. He was also a philandering bastard who should burn in hell solely for the stunts he pulled with Assia and Shura.
Here is something you might find interesting.
http://tinyurl.com/2obpgm
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