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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
dahlia
Published Letters: 19 Editor's Choice: 2
YO! Remember running around getting silly with your friends? The feeling of freedom and excitement in running around a party while your parents were happy to let you get stoopid so they could chat about whatever?
I do.
Every birthday is a social occasion for family and friends to relax and celebrate JOY. The joy of another year with our children safe and healthy.
We celebrate and we are grateful to watch the kiddies get silly in ice cream and cake, toys and candy, feeling love and JOY.
Life has so many unexpected turns....live life and stop worrying so freakn much!
Thank you for being brave enough to publish this photos. I am a suburban mom caught up in the everyday life of just raising my family. As a faithful subscriber, I was suprised to hear about Salon on NPR. After hearing why there was a news story about my favorite website, I felt proud to have my money supporting Salon.
The unchristian and abhorrent crimes against humanity at Abu Ghraib need to be denounced, loudly, by the American people.
As a mother, I shudder thinking of the mothers whose children were tortured in Abu Ghraib. As an American, I am angry at my government sanctioning this horror. Action against our leaders must take place. From the president down, justice needs to prevail.
I will contine to be a premium subscriber. Thank you Salon.
Tyler Perry is a genius! I have watched his plays on dvd about a million times and each time it's just as funny. My family, friends, and other black coworkers all know about Medea but not many white people do....but hey, I have only recently watched one episode of Friends and I just don't understand the humor...but unlike that really harsh critic from Boston, I won't trash what so many clearly love and enjoy (Friends is popular, right? lol).
Nice article!
Writers like Flanagan baffle me. I am a secretary and my husband drives a big rig for a living. We are lucky enough to have family help us with our 3 year old twins.
Not working was a luxury feminist liberal policy created when FMLA and the similar California Leave Act protected my job while I recovered from child birth. It is feminism that pushes me to never be afraid to persue my dreams (i'm currently a senior at a local university getting my B.S.) AND be a great mom.
My grandmother grew up in a time where her husband wouldn't ALLOW her to work. She stayed at home and took care of their children. When she finally left my grandfather, her family turned against her for daring to leave a man who told her a woman's place was in the home.
I HAVE to work. There is NO CHOICE. There is NO CHOICE for all the women I work with as well. CHOICE to stay at home would be like winning the lottery. I wish I had that problem.
But, back to reality. It is still a man's world. Feminism has never been the enemy. Sterotypes and the control of women are the enemy. From the glass ceiling, to birth control, to the insane expectations of the middle and upper classes on mothers.
All us working class Mothers you see out here, the majority HAVE TO WORK. We pray the childcare workers are not mean to our children, that the health insurance premiums don't go up this year, and that the car doesn't break down before pay day.
Flanagan is just an opportunist with a good hustle.
I enjoyed reading Cary's reply. It was on target.
The young woman is learning a lesson in empathy. It has nothing to do with being a doormat or cultivating the ability to cut off friends that upset you.
Empathy for another, no matter how troubled that individual is, is what many of our families (related and created) have taught us.
Like a previous person wrote, at least the teenager is pondering her situation and trying to do what's right.
By actively seeking solutions to this complex problem, I admire LW's attempt at righting a wrong.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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