6-year-old: I think I know why they're called magnets
Me: oh yeah, why?
6-year-old: because they're round, so they look like mints and because some people think they're magic
Me: That's a really clever idea. What are they called again?
6-year-old: Magmints
My 55 yo friend who is having postmenopausal bleeding just called me from CVS in TX bc they refused to fill her Rx for misoprostol (used to open the cervix) bc she couldn’t prove she wasn’t having an abortion. She is having surgery in 2 days. This is what total abortion bans do.
Hey.
Hey you.
You’re being way too hard on yourself. You’re a human being—you’re not a machine. You have limits. You need rest & breaks. You’re doing the best you can right now & that’s great enough. Stop beating yourself up for being in a slower season of life.
1. When we officially record the millionth death from COVID in the US in the coming days, it should lead to collective introspection about our failures as a country and an articulation of lessons learned for future pandemic control. But it won’t.
If you accidentally say you’re from a small town around midwesterners you’ll get into a competition for who had the smaller school and someone will inevitably bring up how they had “drive your tractor to school day”