Hatred is the anger of the weak. – Alphonse Daudet
This is just begging to be a Co-Parenting 101 Quote of the Day. So very, very true.
There are few people in the world that I hate (or have hated), and in every case, I felt that way because I believed I lacked power to change my [...]
BabyGirl,to her preschool teacher in response to the teacher thanking her for the holiday gift:
“Oh! [insert dramatic hand-wave and eye-roll] I do ALL my holiday shopping at Walgreen’s!”
“I know that Kelly* is an optimist, but optimism can be annoying in a very bad situation.”
–Mini-Me, 4th grade, talking about a friend at school. *Name changed to protect the annoyingly optimistic.
“Generosity without orthodoxy is nothing, but orthodoxy without generosity is worse than nothing.”
~Hans Frei
(quoted in Brian D. McLaren’s A Generous Orthodoxy )
After posting a teaser for months, the brilliant Michelle Sewell of GirlChildPress finally gave up the goods. Do I even have to mention that I am sooo submitting a story for consideration for this collection (CFS below)?
In other GirlChild news, a few weekends ago, I joined Michelle and 9 other Just Like a Girl contributors [...]
“Mommy, why are Barack Obama’s lips purple?”
–BabyGirl, while watching Obama’s televised message tonight
“My stomach has a headache.”
–BabyGirl, feeling a little under the weather today
Yep, she’s on a roll. This morning over breakfast:
“Mommy, do you have to go to college to be a princess?”
That’s proof positive of nature vs. nurture, right there. My feelings about the p-word are well-documented, and Princess Grace by Mary Hoffman (“There’s more than one way of being pretty.”) remains in heavy rotation [...]
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
-Anais Nin
(photo circa 1932 and courtesy of Live Journal’s Vintage Photos)
(hat tip to Bohemian Hippy Chick for reminding me that I love this quote)
I like this breakdown of how Clinton’s presumptuousness about superdelegate loyalty was her undoing. They didn’t mention her bigger-than-Texas-sized sense of entitlement outright, but you can read between the lines. Some highlights:
“Sure, Senator Clinton was the favorite early on, but that was simply because of the institutional support that she already had,” [...]
