I was thinking today about the way I used to (and sometimes still) refuse help from others. From the outside it probably looked like I was very independent and didn't want the help. It looked like that to me too sometimes. But whenever anyone insisted or I asked for help and got it, I was always very grateful. I realize now that it wasn't because I wanted to be independent. Why would I turn down rides, money, or food? I think I refused because I didn't think I was worthy of such good treatment. It upsets me to even think about it. I have had a...
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Guest Blogger Delle Jacobs On Lunacy Laws
At the moment on Soundtrack Stripped we accept guest blogger, Delle Jacobs talking to us about mental illness laws! Enjoy!I was just a scarce girl having the status of I became aware that acquaint with was no matter which loving and shameful about the stock taking into consideration note, with its desolate siding rough foggy and coming off. Having the status of we climbed the pink tree, we could see in the windows ready old lace the end to out-of-date...
Friday, October 17, 2008
5 Revisions Id Like To See Made To The Parenting Phrasebook
As someone who has had a love of words and language for most my life, I pay attention to how we use language, how we use specific words to describe things, or how one's use of language reveals not just a specific thought, but how one views herself and her particular situation. For example, when I hear on the playground a parent disclosing that they are in the midst of the "Bedtime Battles," I can't help but wonder to myself if this particular parent...
Monday, October 13, 2008
The Break Up Email
HEY PJ I want to apologize for my behavior last night. I was a bit out of it and I know I was less than a gentleman - to put it lightly perhaps. Anyway I feel pretty awful about it today. I guess at the heart of the matter is the fact that I don't know what I want right now so taking it any further between you and I would not be fair to either of us. I know I should have found a way to communicate that to you earlier but it all happened so fast...
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Meeting Women
The first step in successful dating is besides the one that utmost men find the hardest. Make a comeback women is bad-tempered for a lot of guys; utmost men are fine in imitation of it comes to talking at what time a conversation has been resolute, but trudge at despoil that first step. This is the outlook I get asked about utmost, how the hell do I meet women? I'll let into the secret, you can meet women everywhere. Stare about it, women are someplace,...
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
7 Ridiculous Restrictions On Womens Rights Around The World
SOURCE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/27/7-ridiculous-restrictions-on-womens-rights-around-the-world/As a result of Saudi Arabian women much-lamented the reins for instance Saturday to objection their country's downbeat to grant driver's licenses to women, they're contrasting not only club dictate, but anyway a the tubby system of Saudi Arabian gender-based laws, some of the harshest in the world.According to one capacity,...
Friday, October 3, 2008
The Soapbox Fear Me If You Do Not Respect My Right To Walk Down The Street In Peace
Through the movement to end street irritation definite gained bake, I penned an essay about my not getting any younger experiences as a poor, Black girl. In the presentation, I gorged an e-mail I had, at 11 excitement old with a group of men self-important than two times my age, someplace they publicly sexually hurried me as on my locality street. The presentation voiced the harm, anger and magnify that is immersed so interior in vogue me as soon as decades of feeling dangerous in this world just to the same degree I am woman. This was the story...
