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Re: The Good Wife: “The Material World”

singermomma — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:47:12 -0000

Dunno,I thought it was kind of perfect. I always got the sense that Alicia's reał problem with the tutor was her whole not giving a damn about what anyone thought vibe. I mean, the woman literally danced like no one was watching and put it on YouTube. For someone as tightly controlled and image-conscious as Alicia, that would have been terrifying, especially the prospect of her becoming a favorite friend of her daughter. So, I thought it was fitting that Crazy Dancing Tutor was the last person she spoke to before heading off into don't-give-a-damn land.

Re: The Good Wife: “The Material World”

singermomma — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:16:10 -0000

Maybe my iPad screen was playing tricks on me, but was that....a pig's tail?

Re: The Good Wife: “The Material World”

singermomma — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:12:30 -0000

Ok, so I just binge watched the entire TGW canon over the last month, occasionally reading AV club posts and comments of the past as I went. Finally, I join your timeline. I feel like I'm in Fringe....

I think my favorite moment was the blatant back-of-head fake out in the last 30 seconds. Is that Cary on the other end of that call from our favorite a-hole? Nope!

And I really like Finn, but am not too excited about the prospect of her blowing up a marriage, especially after what Finn confides to her.

Re: Prayers for my Mom

singermomma — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 01:33:11 -0000

Prayers for you and your family, Mark.

Re: Today’s Purgative Ash Wednesday Meditation

singermomma — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 13:57:54 -0000

In Soviet Russia, train rides YOU.

Seriously, though, this looks kind of awesome.

Re: Well Done, Texas!

singermomma — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 21:49:39 -0000

Mike, I just saw this pop up on my Disqus and wondered how you and your family are doing. Please know that I just said another prayer for you all and for Edward, for whatever situation you are all in right now.

Re: Defending the Little Sisters of the Poor: Deacon Greg is Beautiful When He’s Angry

singermomma — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 21:44:09 -0000

Bill, I do hope that you see the irony in your statement.

Re: Good News From Texas

singermomma — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:09:30 -0000

Based on documents made public by PP, conservative estimates put it at about 37% of revenues.

Re: Good News From Texas

singermomma — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:29:44 -0000

If you, like me, are hearing cries of "but what about health care for the poor?" in response to these closures, I encourage you to check out this link:

http://www.dshs.state.tx.us...

Your tax dollars at work, providing free or very subsidized health care to the poor and under-served at 300 sites throughout Texas, much more efficiently and cheaply than through the local PP. Unless of course someone who says "health care for women" actually means "abortion past 20 weeks at an out-of-code sub-standard facility," in which case, yeah, they're out of luck.

Re: Well Done, Texas!

singermomma — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:13:16 -0000

Mike, I am so sorry to read this and will certainly pray for you and your family and son.

Re: More evidence that if America was a person, her loved ones would stage an intervention

singermomma — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 12:53:35 -0000

Whoa. Good for them for standing up for themselves. It's really, really important for all women to know their rights regarding breastfeeding in public. Here's a link regarding state laws that's a helpful guide: http://www.ncsl.org/issues-...

Worth noting that New York is on the list of places that have laws that specifically allow a woman to legally breastfeed in any public or private place. Also worth stating that if you are an employer, you really need to make sure that your employees are familiar with the laws on the books so they don't put you in a position that can range from embarrassing to illegal.

As a side note, I'm due in 3 weeks with #3, and I'm definitely finding a way to work "boob grenade" into a conversation.

Re: Your Puny Vestern Adwertising is Futile to Reach Post-Soviet Voman!

singermomma — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 20:01:26 -0000

I laughed AND hit "replay."

Re: Your Puny Vestern Adwertising is Futile to Reach Post-Soviet Voman!

singermomma — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 20:00:08 -0000

If only she'd been wearing pants...

Re: Peter Shea Graduates!

singermomma — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:51:30 -0000

Congrats Peter and Chez Shea!

Re: Obama Stands Tall…

singermomma — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:55:45 -0000

John, you've emphasized several times that you believe the practice is unreasonable and horrific, but legal. Is there a difference for you between "moral" and "legal?" I'm asking in all sincerity. Can something be legal but not moral, or vice versa? If so, why?

Re: Rich to poor: Just Enough of Me. Way Too Much of You and Your Filthy Kids

singermomma — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:55:24 -0000

Imp, here's a nice linky entry from Gerard Nadal with data from the WHO (his site is great, BTW at aggregating stuff like this). http://gerardnadal.com/2012...

What you wrote about the cancer risks associated with BCPs is true, but there is more to the explanation than "the Pill prevents cancer." If you do some reading on why that actually happens, one sees that the ovarian cancer risk is lowered because the pill (mostly) prevents ovulation. The reality is that we were not meant to continuously ovulate throughout our 20's and 30's. It's not uncommon for a woman who becomes pregnant and then breastfeeds for the amount of time recommended by the WHO to go for several years without ovulating, and that also lowers cancer risk (and tangentally, breastfeeding for extended periods also decreases cancer risk). So, perhaps it's more accurate to say that lowering the number of times a woman ovulates during her reproductive years prevents ovarian cancer, or that continuously ovulating throughout fertile years increases risk. I'm not saying that the Pill doesn't accomplish this, or that every woman should go out and start popping out kids in the name of cancer risk reduction, but it's helpful I think to look at cancer risk in light of how our bodies are actually meant to work. And in my humble opinion pumping something into my body that might actually increase my risk of other types of cancers in order to prevent this seems counter-productive, especially since I'm in my childbearing years and have successfully delayed or prevented ovulation by having and nursing kids.

And I think I probably just broke the record for use of the word "ovulation" in one post on Mark's blog.

Re: Rich to poor: Just Enough of Me. Way Too Much of You and Your Filthy Kids

singermomma — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:24:47 -0000

Ha! Especially considering the general thrust of Singer's address to the conference. "Women, deliver! Unless we deem it harmful to the planet, in which case we might force you not to!"

http://www.lifenews.com/201...

Re: Rich to poor: Just Enough of Me. Way Too Much of You and Your Filthy Kids

singermomma — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:19:50 -0000

"The real, long-lasting solution is to change the mindsets that view women as little more than chattel, not to give those women a handful of pills."

YES. This. Imp, I share your concerns. It's hard to promote NFP in a culture that doesn't even validate marital rape as a thing. But adding condoms or pills to that culture will only harm women further but legitimizing and enabling the treatment that is oppressing them. It will be easier to prostitute and be prostituted, it will do nothing to change a mindset that sees women as property. It may help in the short term, but the damage will be great and long-lasting. Remember the shifting attitudes in our own country about contraception in the '30's. Conventional wisdom was that it would make women's lives easier and elevate their place in society, strengthen marriages, and do away with prostitution. Good, lofty goals that all Christians should share. But instead, the introduction of contraception allowed people to succumb to their worst instincts and codified them into the culture in a way that now seems pretty permanent.

So, educate women. Empower them. Strengthen marriages, educate men on the dignity of their wives and of sex. These are the long-term solutions for these problems.

Re: A reader remarks on the Boy Scouts…

singermomma — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:29:29 -0000

I have gone back and forth and back and forth about this. My husband and I have long admired the scouts, and looked forward to the time we could get our 7 year old involved. As it stands now, I agree that the policy doesn't go against Catholic teaching and upholds some standards of justice that I agree are important to individual scouts. However, I also supported civil unions back in the day in our state for similar justice-based reasons. Heck, I still do. But I think we all know where that went.

As much as the BSA agrees with the Catholic Church now, it isn't the Catholic Church. On what basis does it make its moral or policy decisions? I know where those decisions come from with the Church (hello, Catechism!), but as far as the BSA...I really have no idea at this point where any of it comes from. Good motives? A sense of justice? Money? Calming the loudest voices? And therefore I don't know what decisions it will make in the future or on what basis it will make them. It's one thing for me to be involved in wrestling with these things, and it's another for me to knowingly throw my son into the middle of it. There are no guarantees with anything of this world of course, and I don't expect our parenting road to be free of difficult conversations, but there are sure enough of them without me signing up for more if there's an alternative.

Re: A very quiet Marian apparition

singermomma — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:47:15 -0000

Years ago, a friend told me about a young mother in her town in Mexico who was losing her little boy to cancer. Her was around 4 or 5 years old. As he lay in bed and they knew the end was near, his eyes suddenly opened wide and he stared up at the ceiling and exclaimed, "Mama! Who is that beautiful lady?" His mother was able to encourage him to go to her, that she loved him and would take care of him. He slipped away shortly after.

I always thought it was so beautiful not only that this happened, but that that little boy's mom was able to witness this and hand her precious child over to the loving care of his heavenly mother. What comfort in such an awful situation. I like to think that all children who are taken from us too soon are also given this vision, whether we know it or not.

Re: Through my fault, through my fault, through my own most grievous fault

singermomma — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:23:20 -0000

Agreed. In fact, that blog post was one of my favorites from the last year for all the reasons Beadgirl mentions.

Re: Through my fault, through my fault, through my own most grievous fault

singermomma — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:19:04 -0000

Mark, this is a really courageous and inspirational post. We all have stuff to work on that separates us from who God wants us to be, and turning those stones over and looking at that stuff is so, so difficult. Please know that you have played a very influential role in helping me think about some aspects of my Catholic faith that I'd never considered before. As someone who suffers from almost an opposite problem of being *too* retiring and easygoing about my faith (which, strangely, stems from the same problem you mention - fear) you and many of your readers have helped me see my way to a more courageous witness and given me the means to do it. Thank you for that.

Prayers for you!

Re: Prayer Request

singermomma — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:31:31 -0000

Thanks, Mark. I just got this link as well to a page on FB her family set up: https://www.facebook.com/Re.... As you can see, they are requesting that in lieu of flowers, people donate to the charity Molly founded to help women and children entering shelters.

As a side note, the more I learn about her and her family, the more apparent and huge this loss becomes. How many 14 year olds found charities in their spare time? Lord, have mercy.

Re: Looking for Girl Scouts

singermomma — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:57:10 -0000

Something Jim or others might also consider starting is an Indian Princesses group. It's an organization specifically for fathers and daughters. I did it with my dad when I was a girl, and it was tons of fun for both of us. Regardless, it will be great to have a dad/daughter group in the area!

Re: Swedish breaks ground on new Medical Center

singermomma — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:24:31 -0000

That's great news! I had my daughter with the midwives and they were amazing. Highly recommend.

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Re: <i>The Good Wife</i>: “The Material World”

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Re: Your Puny Vestern Adwertising is Futile to Reach Post-Soviet Voman!

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Re: Peter Shea Graduates!

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