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Interesting, concise article in Huffpo about the Wall Street protests:
Everything The Media Told You About Occupy Wall Street Is Wrong:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-boykin/occupy-wall-street-media_b_1019707.html -
On the complexities of relatively privileged parenting
Once, when Arie was very young and parenting him was feeling like a living hell (sorry, Arie, if you read this later so so so sorry), a friend of mine contentedly reported to me about an evening she had in which she popped corn and let her daughter stay up a little late and they snuggled and watched a movie together ( Read more... ) -
Parents of very young kids: it is going to get easier!
I just had an IM chat with a friend who has two very young children, and I told him how much easier his life is going to get. And then I realized I've had a slightly different version of this conversation repeatedly ( Read more... ) -
Help support Strange Horizons: 'The Little Magazine that Did!'
It's time for the Strange Horizons fundraising event -- I hope if you have some money you will consider donating ( Read more... ) -
On understanding
Every wheelie has an experience similar to the one I had today: I pushed open the door to the bathroom and began to wheel through it. A coworker was standing at the sinks, washing her hands. She looked up, a totally panicked expression on her face, and abandoned her hygiene to leap in front of me, completely blocking my entrance, and to grab the ( Read more... ) -
Wheelchair-related public service announcement
Oooooh, my darling sweet coworkers who are so well-meaning and kind and concerned and anxious to help ( Read more... ) -
Taking on Orson Scott Card's _Hamlet's Father_.
Will Alexander, my friend and writing group buddy, is an astoundingly precise, dangerous fighter. He has reviewed Orson Scott Card's rewrite of Hamlet, starting with Card's dubious reasons for writing it, pulling apart his prose and bland characterizations, and looking closely at its virulent homophobia. The review is intelligent, darkly funny at ( Read more... ) -
Let's put "Labor" back into "Labor Day"
“Kids don’t have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don’t have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were ( Read more... )
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