Interviewer: "So, if you hadn’t ended up with Barack Obama, you wouldn’t be the First Lady?"
Michelle Obama: “No. If Barack Obama hadn’t ended up with me, he wouldn’t be President.”
On my birthday this year, while we were still lying in bed, my partner pulled out a list of everything I’d accomplished since my last birthday and read every single thing to me.
I don’t think I’ll ever recover from how loved that made me feel.
Why on earth do job applications require specific start/end dates for all previous employment? Do you think I remember the exact day I quit a job 13 years ago?
hayden panettiere was a child star, a survivor of domestic violence, postpartum depression, sexual abuse and addiction, and a grieving big sister. she had been fighting like hell for a long time. she deserved to live a long happy life.
I’ve often been asked:
“Why do you care about what’s happening in Gaza so much?”
No, I am not Muslim
I am not Palestinian
I have no links to Palestine
I am just a human witnessing a genocide, is that not enough of an explanation?
My answer - I am simply a human.
The best advice I heard from a stranger was this: give luck more opportunities to bump into you. Leave the house, take a different road, travel, say yes to new experiences. The more you do, the more life surprises you in the best ways.
lead tampon in me while i eat my listeria meat & cyclospora riddle veggies and wash it all down with microplastic water. afterwards, i inhale wildfire smoke and listen to the serene sounds of the data center built across the street. there’s a flock cam too recording it all
The literacy crisis isn’t that people can’t read the words. It’s that they can’t understand the context, infer meaning, recognise nuance, identify contradictions, or draw logical conclusions from what they’ve read.
My wife and I got into it last night about the grocery bill.
I pulled up an old Target order from February 2020.
28 items. $64.50.
Added every single one back to the cart just to see.
$158.30.
Same 28 items. Same store. Same cart.
$93.80 more.
In five years.
We didn’t buy more.
Didn’t upgrade anything.
Didn’t add a single extra item.
Just needed the same things we always needed.
They told us inflation was transitory. They told us it was under control. They told us the economy was strong.
Our cart didn’t get any of those memos.
145% increase in five years.
Not one member of Congress has looked at a grocery receipt in decades.
And it shows.