Category: from the interwebs
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The Hot Dad Theory
I know that the traditional family model is an endangered species; but are there really that many shitty dads out there?
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Rob weighs in on… Photos from a failed marriage
Photographs are an amazing thing. They are our concrete, albeit two- dimensional connections to past events, history, and memories. I think it’s no surprise that, when you ask a lot of people what material possession they would save if their house was on fire, they say “family photographs”.
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The Bumbling Dad
The 100% Policy isn’t just for real life—it’s for the screen, too. Why did TV writers decide that for women to be strong, men had to be buffoons? Looking back at the ‘Bumbling Dad’ trope and why I’m still over the Tim Taylor school of parenting.
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“…When a Man loves a woman who doesn’t love him”
Personally, I’m already sick to death of “Slapgate“; but I stumbled across an article in which comedian Earthquake (I’ve never heard of him either) talks about Will Smith and brings up a few interesting points that I think seemed relevant to this blog.
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The Liking Gap
if we have difficulty knowing what we are worth to ourselves, how in the hell can we know what we are worth to other people?
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Wither snow days?
As I may or may not have explained before, I am a school teacher in the real world. And like much of the United States, I am facing the biggest snowstorm of this season Wednesday and Thursday. As a kid, excessive amounts of snow, or bitter cold temperatures, would often…
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50 is the new 40 is the new 30…
To say I found it shocking that the cast of Sex and the City and The Golden Girls are supposed to be the same age would be a colossal understatement.
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From the interwebs: Demi Lovato says they are nonbinary and changing their pronouns
Now, I like to think of myself as a culturally sensitive, bedwetting liberal; but even I must admit, that new gender identifications are popping up faster than I can keep up with.
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on unfriending, unfollowing and ghosting
Getting dumped never feels good; but at east there is a sense of closure to it. But when a person unfriends, unfollows or ghosts you, there is no closure. Worse than that is the thought that the person thinks so little of you that you’re not even worth the effort…
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‘Talk to me’: A train driver asking men to open up – BBC News
Sometimes a friendly ear could be the difference between life and death