My Mother = Amazing
Naturally, I couldn’t let Mother’s Day go by without mentioning some words of advice that she’s offered over the years. This is late, however, because I was out of town. Without further ado, go to The Gaggle and learn what she thinks is important for relationships!
(Source: cafepress.com)
Experience this!! (at EMP Museum)
at Pike Place Market
Why aren’t there any more world fairs? (at Space Needle)
Seattle. (at Lake Union)
It gives voice to my quiet suspicions that the decade following college graduation is one of loss after loss; a time of people you once loved immensely peeling away into parenthood or panic attacks or bad marriages or sudden religiosity or the suburbs. It captures those strange mixed feelings of trying to be happy for friends when they choose things you think you know will never make them happy; the helpless panic as the strongest and most ambitious feminists give up and give in or maybe just grow up and learn to compromise and who are you to judge anyway? It displays real wisdom about the ways that, over time, paths dead end and options disappear and life can feel like a narrowing of possibilities when you always thought it would be an ever-broadening horizon. Also, it’s funny.
The Millions : A Year in Reading: Rachel Fershleiser
Women-processing-their-shit books FTW!
(via rachelfershleiser)
That thing where a book review you wrote five months ago starts circulating again and is all the notes in your dashboard.
(via rachelfershleiser)
In general, cats make terrible spies. But, this cat would be especially bad at it.
(Source: natgeofound)
True Life: I am an Introvert - The Gaggle
My name is Valarie, and I am an introvert. I am proud of this fact, but I realize that it can sometimes be difficult for other people (read: extroverts) to appreciate what it really means: basically, my life would be the worst reality TV show ever. I mostly like doing things by myself or in very small groups of people that I know very well. And, most of the time, I’m really happy just thinking. It doesn’t really matter what it’s about, but I like to think I have a robust inner life that requires regular maintenance and care.
I just really like being by myself, sometimes most of the time. What’s so bad about that?!
(Source: perezhilton.com)
We need more men who have the courage and the strength to start standing up and saying some of this stuff and standing up with women, not against them; pretending somehow that this is a battle of the sexes…we live in the world together.
h/t Bust Magazine
Don’t accept the status quo.
