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Last month, I read Marriage, a History: from Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz. Spiffy title, eh? The book’s even better!
I will not attempt to summarize this book. For one thing, it’s over 400 pages long, and them pages is dense. (Not like those 20 large-print-words-per-page [...] 
I have long loved this old Peggy Orenstein post, and I’m tempted to reference it almost daily.
It was only a matter of time before I read Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture. I enjoyed the first edition mightily (haven’t seen the 2012 [...] 
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” - Albert Einstein in a letter to Jost Winteler, 1901. Look at that face! That dapper child was BORN to question authority. (Image source)
Some people ‘save’ sex for marriage. Some people save money for a rainy day. Me, I’m saving Jane Austen novels. I’ve read a couple and found them delicious from beginning to end. Therefore, I’m saving the rest. After all, I can never read them For The First Time again, and it’s [...] 
(Image via Wikimedia Commons) “The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.” -George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, 1903 [...] 
(While cleaning out my files, I found this snippet of fiction dated January 20, 2008. This one’s for Katie and Chrissy, the minds behind Far Away Literary Magazine.) (Winter Lovers by Zoja Trofimiuk. Image source) Rebobo is decidedly plain. She loves Jonagold, but knows he’s chasing a prettier girl. Rebobo can’t blame him, [...] 
(Quick, name that man! Image source) When I was thirteen or so, my mother went back to school. One day, waiting at the laundromat and lazily leafing through Mom’s textbooks, I read an intriguing essay: Judy Brady’s Why I Want a Wife. Much has changed since its initial publication in 1971. Much remains [...] ![Never-Nude [b]log-rolling. Image via Wikimedia Commons](http://jauntydame.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Log-Rolling-50x33.jpg "Log Rolling"){kind=small}
Never-Nude [b]log-rolling! Image via Wikimedia Commons
Months ago, my blogroll vanished. Don’t ask me how. While my technical skills are admittedly sucktastic, even I’m not dense enough to delete entire pages. Or am I? Whatever happened, I have spent the past two hours typing, clicking, singing fragments of the alphabet (“LMNOP… HIJK… QRST…”), [...] 
Collyer home interior. Image via A List of Surprises Two years ago, I somehow stumbled on this Wikipedia article about the Collyer brothers, a famously fascinating pair of clever, wealthy stuff-hoarders. The story nearly moved me to tears. Curious about this mysterious family, I read Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow. Personally, [...] 
Saturdays are great… … except that so few of my favorite bloggers write on the weekend. I wake up, make a cup of tea, curl up in front of the computer, and… nothing. The internet is one hoppin’ joint; sometimes great stories or information get lost in the tidal wave of incoming new stuff. [...] |
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