Edwards was my first choice. Go Obama! Hopefully Edwards can explain to many why Obama’s health care plan makes so much more sense.
I’m supposed to be a “natural” Hillary supporter as I’m a middle aged New York Jewish woman with a graduate degree. I resent easy categorizations. That might be one of the many reasons I like Obama.
“>Bone, thanks I guess for the words
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Any woman over 50 will tell you the neck doesn’t lie. Nora Ephron wrote a whole book about it. I thought I was one of the fortunate few when 45 came and went, and I was still thin, never easily, and still had a good face. That, ten and a few years ago, was when 40 was still older though I was convinced it wasn’t even the midpoint of youth.
Oh how I learned. I am so vain. When I gained weight and couldn’t get it off no matter what I did I thought of taking to my bed for the rest of my life. But that seemed self-defeating and really suicidal and I am neither.
I had never been an envious or jealous person and I became both. I began to envy women who had been “merely average,” and who had developed great exercise habits.
I moved from a very hilly area back to Manhattan and it took me a long time to realize that walking no longer cut it.
I had been working in social services and in my newest life, not in social services, I began meeting many women who would view me as “not competition.” This was of course not acceptable.
I began to remake myself. For the first time in my life I had to pay attention to everything about me. It’s not fun. I’m lucky. My face is still tight. I look better in longer hair, as long as it’s straight, than in short hair.
I have reclaimed myself. I’m not a competitive person. I truly want to live in a world where people help each other. But in the years of my discontent I learned that women in certain industries talk a good game but in reality….
A book is coming out soon. The author is much younger than I am. We were in a class together. I wrote a story. Two weeks later she handed in an almost identical one. I don’t know if it made past the first draft of her book but…To her I was nothing. Invisible. Somebody who didn’t matter.
I was told to feel proud that I could “inspire.” Why? What did that garner me?
I’m back in form and nobody will ever take me for invisible again. My writing will inspire and will profit me. Call me selfish, bitchy, single-minded. I don’t care. Just don’t pretend that I don’t exist.
Scratch me and I bleed. I will never be a woman who has every line taken out. Who can’t scratch her face for fear it will bring up lines often removed. I have earned my lines. I like them. As long as they stay in the background.
My neck? It will do.
Stumble it!
I delete spam pingbacks so don’t even think about it. Actually you can’t as I turned pingbacks off. Tired of deleting them. Don’t know who pings to everything I post–at least twice but they don’t even get the name of this blog or my blog right. which would be the only thing saving them–but I don’t like blogs that are made just to ping articles and then sell products that would land in any persons spam
Cooper has great Obama posters.
Here is Frank Rich. on the “Kennedy myth.”
Here is Nicholas Kristof on “Christian evangelicals.” I don’t think that Kristof understands that many liberals talk about the radical right–no religious denomination–for a reason. We are intelligent people who can separate the good from the bad.
I care about the zealots losing power and believe that they have.
It does upset me that so many minority group members in New York are planning on vote for Hillary. Fact: Downstate New York has long supported Upstate. Any good she has done for Upstate has been mitigated for what she hasn’t done for Downstate.
She’s a carpetbagger (I was never in love with Robert Kennedy) who has had one aim and one aim only since she began to run for president, uh that was a typo I will live in–since she began to run for Senator. Continue Reading »
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Grace Paley was an amazing writer. With her death, my parents generation of women writers, arguably comes to a close
In the 80’s writing workshops were different. They focused more on good writing and less on marketability. I actually enjoyed them. There wasn’t the competitive aura there is now. I had a much published workshop teacher who was always pushing me to submit to the many prestigious lit magazines that seem to have disappeared. Continue Reading »
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Maybe it’s 35% percent of all people like me; 5% are neutral; and 60% don’t, but a girl can dream….
This is what the New York housing market is like. Sometimes i feel that the only things I want out of life are a real working kitchen and a deck.
Something most people know about me. I am a First Amendment absolutist.
Dari asked for ten things about me. Gay asked for eight random facts. Here goes:
1)My father was the charter member of “generation tea cup. He would have loved to have gone on job interviews with me. Assuming I went for the jobs he wanted me to have. He would have loved to have negotiated salary and other benefits for me. I feel badly that he didn’t live to see his world view vindicated.Though he would have been dead anyway as I would have murdered him. I am a daddy’s girl who was forever trying to break free and my book is about that and more. Continue Reading »
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Happy Birthday MizzyB
My grandmother is in the purple. It was taken from a photograph that my aunt painted. My grandmother was a suffragette. My Mom was very proud. This post is in my grandmother and mother’s memories. My aunt’s a great artist and I think I will photograph her stuff and sell it here.
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EC is NOT the same thing as Mifeprex or RU-486. EC will not terminate an existing pregnancy. EC will not work if a woman is already pregnant.
To women from my generation, the first generation to grow up with the pill, this is a miracle. Because you’re not always on the pill. Other contraception can more easily fail.
I do remember giving condoms the balloon test. I remember one July 4th weekend with my boyfriend Zachary.
I really really would have gotten this pill had it been avaliable and then I would have never had to make a decision I have never regretted but found almost impossible to make.
I was a “mistake.” Never to me, my entire extended family and friends, but always to my birth mother. I lived in a foster home, just for four months. I know how amazing and random life is. I strongly believe that all women and girls should have access to birth control.
This pill prevents the egg and sperm from ever meeting. Girls and women are raped.
This pill is available to women, eighteen and over,without a prescription. Younger girls can get it with a prescription. Don’t ever be ashamed of asking for it.
It can save you from the most difficult decision you will ever have to make whether you decide to keep the pregnancy or terminate it.
You can make the choice to be pregnant or not.
That’s power.
Real power.
Please use a condom until you know everything you need to know about your partner. But accidents happen. Rape happens.
You have one modicum of control. Control equals power. You can choose not to become pregnant if you’re raped or didn’t use birth control or suspect that it might have failed. And I don’t know why but women usually know. We just do.
Make yourself powerful.
Stumble it!
