My Eleventh Weekly Reading List

After all the stress of the last few days, I gotta, say, I am hella EXHAUSTED.  

So I'm extra glad this week's reading list just flowed, smooth as a smooth thing.  There's great stuff on the interweb this week.

Starting with Melissa Silverstein. Whenever there's sexism in Hollywood (and frankly, when is there not?), I can always count on Melissa to call it out.  

I love this post from Inventing My Life about "working on" things with kids.  

And still more confirmation that my neighborhood rocks.  A green grocer that I can walk to!  Yoo hoo!!!!  Can't open soon enough!

And First Person Singular writes about 5 Occasions When You Really Need a Date.  Oh, First Person Singular, how true, how true.  

And then First Person Singular asked THIS key question.  And I answered STOP READING MY MIND.  

Well.  If this doesn't make your head explode, I dunno what will.  From Jezebel, here's the latest scoop on the wage gap.  

And there's this video of a piece on Choice Moms from the Today Show.  

And speaking of Choice Moms, here's a review of "The Back-Up Plan."  I saw it this weekend.  Better than I expected, but the portrayal of women who aren't Jennifer Lopez who choose to have babies on their own is offensive.  To say the least.  

If I weren't so tired, I'd downright rant about it.  Instead, I think I'll sleep.

Comments

[Stephanie]

Hi Sarah,

Here’s an idea for a post(s) that might be a distraction from all of the waiting on your plate these days.

You’ve brought up dating and relationships in several posts, I’m remembering: WP responding that you’re open to meeting someone and you later reflecting that you’re not; in your post on Gottlieb’s book a meditation on readiness, rightness, and timing; and here, “Are we single because we’re different, or different because we’re single?” What I’m interested to hear about—because, lately, it’s something I’m noticing and exploring in myself and certainly why I’m dwelling on these posts of yours—is how your thinking about relationships, partnership, marriage, attraction, etc. has changed over time, as you have changed, and in different phases of your life.

[Amy]

I would love to read that post! I loved your reading suggestions, as usual . I'm having real anxiety about the thought of bring single because Im different. Embarassingly I've never reflected on this thought before and now I can't stop analyzing what I could do better while dating. Perhaps soon I'll reach a stage in life when the aloneness will be mire comfortable?

[Liz]

Glad you liked my Working on It post - it gives me enormous satisfaction that a "real" writer likes my stuff!