Letters to the Editor
Allie_
Published Letters: 1252 Editor's Choice: 109
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what works for me
[Read the article: How can we get back the thrill in our relationship?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Rising 14 years married and together 5 years before that - and I'm a total love addict, love falling in love more than anything. Those first few days of wonder are the best. So why don't I sleep around?
I've learned that my husband isn't just one man, but many men. He hasn't lost the power to surprise me. Remember walking in the rain, holding hands, so stunned by wonder that you can barely draw breath? I did that... couple weeks ago, I guess it was.
Although I'm pretty partial to him, I'm convinced my husband isn't unique in being made up of more facets than I could discover in a lifetime. It's just a matter of paying attention.
As for sex, sex is an investment - you get out of it what you put into it. Although bodies change over time, your lover will not suddenly have new scars to tell the tale of, new curves and highlights to fancy, new erogenous zones. But the trade off for the thrill of banging noses with a stranger is learning how to really please another person - and that other person really learning how to please you.
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this is why I hate Lieberman
[Read the article: The U.S. Senate says the Internet is very dangerous]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...and Gore... and now I find Obama's the same way? Crap. I'm gonna do more research into Obama's attitudes towards the internet and video games. I already know Hillary is anti-video-game. Is there a fucking liberal candidate who isn't a Luddite? Could you people please shoot yourselves in the foot some more? Cause, you know, it's not like the country's in crisis and we really need a Democrat in office and young, hip people are your friggin VOTING BASE or anything!
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elderberries
[Read the article: Amish like me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We have an elder tree. Elders are small, elegant flowering trees, and elderberries are clusters of small, black berries that look like something your mom would tell you not to eat as a small child. Birds love them. They aren't particularly sweet and are too small to bother eating as fruit. Supposedly they are mildly poisonous when raw (I guess those mom instincts are pretty good) but not when cooked. They are usually made into wine or jam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Elderberryfruit5081.JPG
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way to piss off both sides
[Read the article: Mitt Romney, father of gay marriage?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Too tolerant for the right wing, too intolerant for the left. On the one hand, he distanced himself from the conservatives who believe that them gays are against God, on the other, he alienated gay people who want to get married and their supporters. (I particularly loved the line about not calling single people married - that's because, um, there's only one person there, tootsie roll! Gay marriages involve TWO, count them, two people.)
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whole 'nother kettle of fish
[Read the article: A peek behind the veil (again)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Regarding the adequate rainful - I'm aware of another theory (not my invention, they were passing this around in graduate school). Island cultures encourage a cooperative way of life, rather than a competitive one. Only examples of polyandry you find are on islands.
However, I think both theories are oversimplifications, as is your statement about "Pacific Islanders." From all I hear, Bali is pretty paradisaical - but not all of its neighbors, nearly identically situated, are.
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re: nancyh - me too
[Read the article: Kindergarten unreadiness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My daughter was too old for kindergarten when she came to us, and a good thing too, because reading all these accounts is going to make my head explode.
Kindergarten, that's when you learn important lessons like how to take turns using the potty and how not to bite people. On my first day of first grade, they divided us up into kids who could read and kids who couldn't read, kids who could count past a certain number and kids who couldn't. The kids who could read were a tiny minority.
I did an internet look-up of the kids I went to grade school with the other day; I guess you could call me the underachiever of the lot - I make video games for a living. One of us makes award-winning indie movies. One is the head of the neurology department of a large hospital. One is a pediatrician. One is the head of a PAC. One has some fancy government title having to do with wetland conservation in Florida. One is the head of a college English department; he also performs regularly as a comedian. In other words, we turned out okay. I'd venture to say most of our mothers brag about us.
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digital noise
[Read the article: We'll always hate Paris]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Something always bothered me about the "Eve" at the Creation Museum (article recently featured on Salon). Now I know what it was: SHE LOOKS LIKE PARIS HILTON WITH DARK SKIN!
Does anyone else see it?
Anyway, it's bad to crow over someone's downfall, but I can't help myself: in the photo where she's being dragged back to jail, she looks genuinely distressed. Must be a new feeling for her. And, y'know, Cintra, it does give me hope for the middle class, knowing there is one judge, just one but there is actually one, who can't be bought by Paris Hilton.
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staph infection
[Read the article: We'll always hate Paris]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The one thing we know about Paris's mysterious illness is that it was definitely not a staph infection. Sheriff's dept announced that.
I should do some reading on Kathy Hilton, since I'm actually curious how you produce a child who places no value on other human beings whatsoever.
Which brings me to another point, Cintra - celebrities are interesting because celebrities are people. In the olden days, people learned what other people were like by gossiping about the woman down the street. Today, we can look at other people's follies and foibles all over the world.
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re: Anonymous
[Read the article: We'll always hate Paris]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you want something done about the overcrowded LA jails full of drug-resistant staph - send rich white kids there when they break the law. They'll get cleaned up in a jiffy.