Sometimes I read a blog post- no, not yours, Tom- and I think- Oh honey, your youth and inexperience are showing. Not cool. Better tweak that elitist attitude, babycakes, or one of these days you’ll be eating a boatload of humble pie.
My philosophy is this - I do what I do. I make my own choices. Sometimes fate intervenes, things happen and I make adjustments, not excuses. Feel free to disagree with my choices, but save the disrespect for when you’re dishing with your BFFs. I don’t disrespect you, you don’t disrespect me. ‘Cuz it’s like… “Mutual, I’m sure…”
If you care to read it:
I Look Down On Young Women with Husbands and Kids and I’m Not Sorry.
Hey so, on another topic- a couple of the books I read last week were major fails. Sorry about that. I’d write reviews but I do not want to disrespect my fellow hard-working authors.
On the flip side, I heard from Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival (the book that saved our lives in The Boundary Waters). He’s got a follow up to Deep Survival- Surviving Survival, The Art and Science of Resilience. Just bought it. In 2014 he plans to release Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival. I grew up 80 miles south of Sioux City, Iowa. I remember this crash like it was yesterday.
If there’s one book I’ll recommend over and over again, it’s Deep Survival, Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, by Laurence Gonzales.
Yes! The Gonzales book is excellent! Nice to see you back!
Thanks, Anny!
I think Ms. Glass is totally nuts. My wife was a stay at home mom for a few years (for the kids) and I could NOT have done that job with the patience and caring and hard work that she put into being a mom. Climbing a mountain is a personal achievement but being a good mom is a human achievement with the only reward being a loving family! I cannot believe that a woman wrote that crap. She can have her mountain…….I’ll take my wife and family any day!
Yeah, I was pretty floored, Ray. I’ve climbed mountains, scaled cliffs, backpacked all over hell and yonder, run rivers… but my greatest achievement is raising good kids.
And battled ghosts don’t forget. And someday I wanna hear that ghost story you’re holding back on.
Yes, ghosts. Sigh…
Wow…there’s so much I want to say, but won’t.
Welcome back.
Oh, that poor little thing. I wonder if her mother said outright that having children was a mistake and something she regretted, or if it was merely implied. Either way, damage done.
Welcome home, Julia!
Yes, Amber, just yes.
Thanks Jaye! Glad to be back.
I left her a comment. I am not a stay at home mum, but I found her comments revolting. Being a lawyer is easier any day of the week than raising kids. I don’t know that I would survive the stay at home mum experience - I never even made it through six months of maternity leave.
She has this idea that marriage and kids is holding women back. Why should it be, when it’s never held men back? What’s really holding women back, and would have been far more insightful if she’d spotted this, is a continued inequality in society in the way that men and women are perceived.
Agreed, Ciara - She actually makes her point - one of the biggest things that holds women back is the judgmental attitude women like her. I’m a nurse and I’ve been a stay at home mom and I’ve been a single mom and a working mom- it’s all hard but it’s all worth it. I will never judge a woman who chooses not to have children. It’s her life and her choice. But neither do I appreciate being judged for my choices.
OMG that blogger is some thing else. I will tell her/him and everyone that I have never been married and never had children by birth. Yet I have lived and am still living a very full and full filling life. I would never trade it with anyone. And while I never gave birth…I have had over 1000 children. I taught school and every one of the children meant as much to me as to their birth parents. Anyone would be blessed to have as full filling a life as I have had till now and will continue to have till the nano-second I leave this earth!
Seriously immature, Roberta- seriously. I admire mothers and teachers more than money-makers. Call me crazy… Both are the most challenging jobs I know.