Rule #1 of Parenting Education (well, it's called "coaching" now...) is that you never, ever tell someone how to do it. How To Make a Family is a question. The site is not just about baby-making. It's not even just about parenting. I'm a big believer in "family" having to do with far more than children being cared for by adults.
We're just here, trying to figure it out.
All There Is To It How to Make a Family: Beyond Baby-Making
http://howtomakeafamily.typepad.com/all_there_is_to_it/
Of TED talks and poems and writer friends: How I "sound" in writing is key to my work life. It may not be as important to your ability to get and keep jobs. Or is it?
Today's experience in watered-down complexities: "Smart people are more likely to binge drink." Wait, I said. What do they mean by "smart"?
What preteen doesn't like cheese crackers? I can't stand the things, myself, but my son's got pretty typical tastebuds, so... Perplexed though he was to find that what looked on the box's outside to be a favorite snack was instead three little boxes with a pretty pregnant woman on them, Mr Fearless
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Watch as I try to somehow segue from a semi-sociological commentary on the transformation of "dirty hippies" to "crunchy green mamas" and wind up talking about sex lube. Seriously. You want my job.
Yes, it's been 10 whole months since I first said I'd share the enormous wealth of attention I get from the blogosphere (can't you just smell the BS in that wry?)... But by gosh, retweet me and I feel obliged. And that's how I landed on An Older Version.
Thanks, on behalf of me and all the other marketing writers in the world, for believing what we tell you to think about yourself, your abilities, and what you "need" to add to your life so you can be better than you really are. Just because I'm old and crabby, doesn't mean I don't have a point.
A hint of our civilization's onward decline: I'm getting paid to write about the nutrition of meringue.
Further proof: The only reason I've been asked to write said piece is because of the number of requests for the information via search engines.
A hint of our civilization's onward decline: I'm getting paid to write about the nutrition of meringue.
Further proof: The only reason I've been asked to write said piece is because of the number of requests for the information via search engines.
Meager though the attempt and impact may be, I sometimes feel no choice but to rant and rave. A thought blossoms, a feeling arises, and I gotta spill it.
I'm a writer. And today, I'm a pissed off writer.
Meager though the attempt and impact may be, I sometimes feel no choice but to rant and rave. A thought blossoms, a feeling arises, and I gotta spill it.
I'm a writer. And today, I'm a pissed off writer.
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