Revelry Reverie

Bob: Eleanor, what does it mean to “try” Eleanor: it means you do. She’s already channeling Yoda.

NextDraft tipped me off that it’s the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima. A long time ago, I wrote my thesis in grad school on American literature and the way story telling changed after World War I and World War II. For ancillary reading, I read John Hersey’s Hiroshima, which is utterly devastating. The New Yorker is re-running it here. I…

Fifty percent of the population gets a period in their lifetime. The same half that grows 100% of the future population. But it’s still taboo – even here in America. Women talk to each other about periods (if they’re comfortable with each other, not, like, as a rule), because it’s something we all deal with – either…

I posted last week about my RBF, and since then have seen two articles on it. One on Buzzfeed (“119 things you hear when you have RBF” or something), and one in the NY Times, which you can find here. Reading it brings back a tidal wave of memories of being told to smile in…

Well. It had to happen eventually. My kids were the rude, disrespectful kids at the library. They even got shushed by a stranger, and a Librarian Talk by a Librarian.  Which made zero difference. So once I was done getting our library cards we marched out, two of us shouting about the injustice, with no…