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Last night I heard something to this effect from a pundit: Given that we cannot win in Afghanistan -- it is simply not a winnable situation -- we should get out as fast as possible.
That argument made a good deal of sense to me.
I hope you're sending this (extremely well-written) letter?
Commented Dec 3, 2009 on Dear President Obama (2) at Gunfighter: A Modern Warrior's Life
Dear President Obama (2)
Dear President Obama, I hardly know where to begin this letter... so I thought I would tell you that I am not writing to you as a committed Democrat. Nor am I writing to you as an outraged citizen. I am writing to you as a very troubled veteran of eight years enlisted service in our armed for...
how cute is that? a deviled egg tray!
i am inordinately fond of deviled eggs. which is not good, because they're reeeeeeally unhealthy.
Commented Nov 20, 2009 on Deviled Eggs at CSquaredPlus3
Deviled Eggs
I like deviled eggs, but I've never made them. In spite of this fact, my mother still thinks I need a deviled egg tray. Every summer we have a Fourth of July party at Mom and Dad's house. The menu rarely changes, but Mom excitedly reminds us that she's made her potato salad, her baked beans ...
a mountain goat vs. a killer whale! LOL!
for me, a cheetah, or any one of the sleek jungle animals.
Commented Jul 28, 2009 on Wild Horse to Killer Whale at IslandRoar
Wild Horse to Killer Whale
If you could be any animal in the whole world, what would you be? When's the last time someone asked you that question? If it's been a while, has your answer changed since then? When I was a kid, I wanted to be a horse. A wild mustang. I guess that running free in the open range with a...
Hollis and Jack are in sync. And that's all I've got to say about that. ;)
Commented Jun 10, 2008 on Car Conversations I'd Rather Forget at Lawyer Mama
Car Conversations I'd Rather Forget
Last week in the car on the way to daycare, Hollis and I started talking about how he won't have school again until the Fall. Then he demanded to know why T and I don't go to school anymore. I explained that Daddy and I had already finished school and there wasn't much more school we could d...
this is a tough one. i'd been posting less and less about ben, and then i started sliding a bit...
my goal is to start removing ben from my posts (except incidentally) as he approaches adolescence. he will be a minor character at best.
Commented May 22, 2008 on seeds of doubt at The End of Motherhood?
seeds of doubt
So a while back, one of you asked me if my kids read my blog. Dutifully, I went and asked them and they all answered with some version of a resounding, "Uh, NO!" I believed them and that was that. But the other day, I got an invitation from Middle to a presentation he was giving for his histor...
You are so very talented.
Commented May 21, 2008 on I'm Seeing Stars at LightHearted Photography, The Blog
I'm Seeing Stars
A few years ago I began to realize that only when most of my life became blurry and confused, could I see with perfect clarity the things that were most important to me. So it is in photography as well. Bokeh is the Japanese term for fuzzy. In photography, it refers to the portion of a photo t...
yes. beautiful.
Commented May 17, 2008 on Me, Unguarded at Lawyer Mama
Me, Unguarded
My 35 year old self with all it flaws. The sun damage and freckles on my forehead and nose; the mole my son calls my "chocolate chip"; the lines on my forehead that don't go away when I relax my brow; the beginnings of crows feet; the eyebrows that need to be waxed; the lips that need a gloss. ...
he sounds like my ben. love it!
Commented May 13, 2008 on Negotiating With a Toddler at Lawyer Mama
Negotiating With a Toddler
At the age of 2, Hollis only said a couple of things: mine, no, and Daddy. Yeah, no Mommy for that kid. Not until he was like 2 1/2. Traitor. I'm not sure when things changed so dramatically, but now at the age of 3 1/2, the kid won't shut up. He has an answer for everything. If he asks u...
I am SO HAPPY that I read this post. It helps me as I approach those years with my boys...
Commented May 13, 2008 on love, teenage style at The End of Motherhood?
love, teenage style
Here is the card I received yesterday from Youngest. Over the years, each of my boys has given me a card with some version of the caveat Youngest included here. Each boy (in his turn and luckily not in the same year), has used Mother's Day to acknowledge the strain that...
well, i think you deserve some compensation. not that i have any authority in the matter...
Commented May 12, 2008 on TypePad Can Suck It (WordPress Rocks) at Lawyer Mama
TypePad Can Suck It (WordPress Rocks)
The Scream (with apologies to Edvard Munch) In my inaugural post here I alluded to the large pain in the rear I had setting up my TypePad blog. The configuring and all that was just fine. I got my lovely banner and colors fixed up easily. No, the problem was importing my content from Blogger...
Yes. And how about this, also? Scale down the "remembers" to the essentials.
Commented Apr 29, 2008 on a possibly useful distinction I wish I had thought of sooner... at The End of Motherhood?
a possibly useful distinction I wish I had thought of sooner...
I'm not quite sure where it came from, but it occurred to me the other day that, when talking to my children, it might be a good idea to replace the admonition "Don't forget" with "Remember." Why not replace the negative with the positive whenever possible? Or maybe I should practice what I pr...
with the lights out, being separate was unthinkable...
that's such a powerful point, anna.
Commented Apr 5, 2008 on Filch It Friday: Stepping to the right of your left brain... at The End of Motherhood?
Filch It Friday: Stepping to the right of your left brain...
Is it Filch It Friday again, already? All week, I find myself filing away posts to filch. I mutter as I read, "Oh, this is filchable. And this is definitely filching material. And I have GOT to filch this." In the end, I went and filched from cce because that girl is seriously filchable. ...
At least Keith Olbermann seemed appropriately outraged when he spoke about it last night. And -- MSNBC has suspended the asshat.
Commented Feb 9, 2008 on Do these girls look "pimped out" to you? at The End of Motherhood?
Do these girls look "pimped out" to you?
Compare and contrast, won't you... The Bush twins campaigning for their father... Chelsea Clinton campaigning for her mother... "Pimped out?" "Pimped out?" When is the unprecedented and routine sexualization of the coverage of the Clinton campaign going to stop? Until...
Good God. That is so completely something my own mother might have said to me.
I was a gymnast for four years, participating in meets 20-30 times a year. Guess how many times my mother attended a meet?
ONCE.
That surely would not happen today, given the pressure to be a helicopter parent.
Commented Feb 7, 2008 on with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse... at The End of Motherhood?
with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse...
Well, I am dragging myself out of the depression I have been in today due to the state of American feminism to report that, contrary to what you may have thought, I did not actually abandon Resolution Tuesday yesterday. The way I figure it, yesterday on TEOM?, I was taking a moment to revisit LA...
sigh. not in a super tuesday state. i feel so left out today. ;)
Commented Feb 6, 2008 on for all (uh, any?) readers in Super Tuesday states... at The End of Motherhood?
for all (uh, any?) readers in Super Tuesday states...
For those of you who are US citizens and in Super Tuesday states, when you head out to the polls today, why not participate in a gigantic civic art project? I did:
I respect your position enormously, but I will be voting for Obama. I see him as more of a visionary, and, quite frankly, I think we need a visionary very, very badly right now.
And if I have an issue with Clinton (of course I'll vote for her if she's our candidate), it's that she is fundamentally not a community builder.
I agree that she's extremely knowledgeable, but I think Obama is bright enough to learn on the job, and quickly, too. And certainly bright enough to handpick a knowledgeable staff.
So there it is. I thought for some time about commenting. I don't want to be inflammatory. I like her, too.
But Obama it is, for me.
Commented Feb 6, 2008 on transformation... at The End of Motherhood?
transformation...
With so many of my friends and the media talking about how transformational an Obama presidency would be, I keep thinking, what could be more transformational for our culture than 50% of the population, for the first time, being able to look at the President and think, "that could be me"? I do...
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