"Feminist talk" is apparently stating the obvious, that my mother felt as though she didn't get to live her life. I forgot that on the Right women are not allowed to think that, not ever, not for one second. But it's the truth. That is how she felt about it and what she told us. Does she feel that way now? Probably. My mistake here was in writing from her perspective because I was trying to write a tribute to her. It was not meant to be an anti-feminist screed, though I have written many of those. Today was not the day to do that. Happy Mother's Day.
Anything worthwhile and good takes sacrifice and hard work. I learned this at 22 and started a family. It wasn't easy. The modern age has made some things easier but life will always require some hardship.
Can’t both be true at the same time? As a mother of adult kids, I’m endlessly grateful and see them as the best thing I’ve ever done in my life. But also the hardest. And also necessitated sacrificing “my life” for a season. I don’t see this sentiment as feminist or antifeminist. Just a paradox of motherhood.
In the 1960s, AT&T (then the Bell System) engineered and optimized parts of its long-distance telephone network based on traffic patterns observed on Mother’s Day, which was—at the time—the busiest calling day of the year.
Everyone at the last moment remembered to call their mom. A few sent Hallmark cards.
Maybe you’re mother felt that way because the culture had changed to prioritizing women’s liberation vs motherhood. Stay at home moms were demoralized.
I remember feeling like I never wanted to be a mom because it was disempowering. I want more for my life than just being a mom. Little did I know that it would be the most empowering and meaningful thing I would ever do in my life. I thank God I was blessed with 2 of the most wonderful human beings I will ever know.
The FOMO because of having children is the biggest Gaslighting of the last 2 generations in my opinion.
My mother got married at 19 and raised 8 children. While she valued her role as wife and mother more than anything overall, she did occasionally express regret at not having lived and worked independently for awhile before she dove in. She did end up having a career later on in life and now has loads of time to pursue her own interests, but there are certain experiences that can only be had when one is young. It will always be a bit of a regret for her and that's the reality. I don't think that takes anything away from her valuation of motherhood, however. Two things can be true at the same time.
Being a parent partly means giving up for yourself to nurture someone else. I view it as a great gift and a great privilege. Sometimes it comes with sorrow and loss but it is definitely never something I regret.
My mother had 4 kids by age 29. When I try to imagine myself having 4 small kids at 29, (I don’t have children) I honestly don’t think I could have managed as she did. It was the 1970s and she was in charge of grocery shopping, cooking, daytime supervision, painting a room, she sewed my clothing and oversaw the household budget. With 3 brothers, there was a surprise almost every day. My relationship with my mother was complicated. During our 6 decades together, there were times I thought she was being mean or uncaring. But usually she was concerned, empathetic, always there for me, no matter the disaster. For the most part, she was the best friend I ever had. She was the first person I called when I got a raise, had a fender bender, came back from a great vacation, met a guy I liked. We talked most every few days. She’s been gone now for 9 years. There’s a huge, huge hole in my life that will never be filled. The words from her that stick in my head are “no one will ever love you like your mother” So true.
"That “holding our parents accountable” thing is what ultimately led to crippling cancel culture." Yikes, hadn't thought of that origin story before, but it is so true. Love all the photos! Happy Mother's Day!!
"Holding parents accountable...led to cancel culture." Generally, I disagree. You can't "live in the moment" if you're constantly anchored to "the past." For example, little Susie is sexually abused by Daddy, e.g., "Delores Clairborn" or little Kevin is severely berated by Mommy, e.g., "Glass" and the resulting "Beast." It's why people marry their mother or father and continue the cycle. It may not be about "accountability," but recognizing behaviors and breaking "the generational cycle" via quality therapy, which is an oxymoron today. It is through this process that one can begin to enjoy life. But ok, maybe #metoo got started this way. There may be some conflating going on here.
My mother was born in 1914 into a family of 9 siblings. She survived the great flu epidemic. She described the horse drawn hearse trudging along the street daily with flu victims. She started her family in 1935 in a small house heated by a wood stove. During the depression men came by looking for work. She put them to splitting wood in exchange for bologna sandwiches. Dad worked in a newly opened gold mine sinking the shaft, my educated guess he was making 35 cents per hour. They later bought a three bedroom house for $1800 and where 10 more children came into the world. Mom worked relentlessly to cook, clean and nurture. She never complained and was always tired. We saw their sacrifice and were always grateful. She knew this was her job and performed dutifully. At one time she was insulted for having eleven children to which she replied no money could ever equal what she had. We would do anything for her. To this day I can't imagine the hardships they endured to raise us. I caught a glimpse one night listening to Dad talking in his sleep. I visit every year where they both rest.
It's almost impossible for someone today to understand the real sacrifices and hardships our ancestors endured to build what we so easily take for granted today.
Happy Mothers Day Sasha.! You presented an important message that we all need to learn: no one is perfect. Not your parents, not your children.
It’s now considered enlightened to decide that you are entitled to hold your less-than-perfect parent accountable to you for what you perceive as their shortcomings. In fact, it’s your obligation because that is the only way to become a truly happy adult.
What a massive crock of juvenile bullshit! News flash- raising you was not always a picnic for your parents either. We all do the best we can.
Grow up. Accept that people have shortcomings. Love them anyway. Just as you hope others love you despite the fact that you aren’t perfect.
“It isn’t that they should live forever, but just that time moves too fast. The older you get, the faster it speeds by. Weeks feel days. Years feel like weeks. We try hard not to think about that part of it. We feel lucky, all of us, to wake up at all.”
I just turned 75 and feel like a healthy young man with the many memories of an old man. Never had a major health problem, rarely anything minor. My mother and uncle were crippled by RA, on my father’s side they all had osteoarthritis, joint pain but not crippling. I always expected some form of arthritis due to so much of it in my family history but I’ve never had even the slightest joint pain. I attribute this longevity with excellent health to decades of an intermittent fasting diet, one meal a day, plus anti-inflammatory supplements like curcumin/bioperine.
Most people find this too difficult to follow and will no doubt go with the pill when it comes out, possibly later this year. I recommend only staying on the pill till you develop the habit of one meal a day and then just going with the IF diet. As AI advances though no doubt this pill will become safer and safer and our society will become vastly healthier and therefore far more functional. The best of times. The worst of times.
“We’re giving people choices, and for women I think the impact of this pill could be as revolutionary as The Pill.”
“Before, if you wanted to lose weight and weren’t blessed with an iron will, you were screwed. But a few years from now, weight will, hopefully, be unclipped from willpower.”
“But shouldn’t you just learn to accept your body, whatever it may be? Shouldn’t you learn to love it? To not shrink yourself down to fit someone else’s ideal? Shouldn’t we change the world, to make it more accommodating, and kinder, to people who are built bigger?”
“Yes. But we tried valiantly to do that, and failed over and over.”
“I Don’t Need Ozempic. But I want it.”
GLP-1s are looking more and more like a miracle drug. Are we ready for miracles?
Real Clear Politics (May 10).The Free Press.Suzy Weiss. May 7, 2025
Thanks, Sasha. Nice picture of your mom and daughter. Your daughter is pretty. You should tell her about intermittent fasting and encourage her to follow it in order to maintain good health and attractive appearance. I’ve seen so many young women like her who were pretty and then just over a couple of years gain a lot of weight and spoil their looks and probably also their health. Plus if your daughter learns to control something as basic as eating it will strengthen her self esteem and permeate all other areas of her life. Consistency to form good habits is the key to a functional life. Learning how to live is very important in life. Many people fail to learn this.
No eating after 8-9pm and not eating again until morning is the key. This is how it worked for humanity before invention of electricity. We went to bed when sun went down, because expensive to burn candle or oil lamps. This all meant the body burned visceral fat every evening - and NOT burn food sitting in belly. This is why no epidemic of diabetes before onset of electricity. But now days, TV and blue screens of phones keep people up (and snacking) into all hours of the night.
It seems that these days many (most?) computers/phones can automatically cut down on blue light. (Our reaction to blue light must be indirectly related to evening fires.) For TV, I somehow got really good "blue-blockers", strong enough that I literally cannot see the blue light from our cable box: it looks *exactly* like it does when it is turned off. I mention this only because if we are seeing any blue light at all, we are living in an un-natural state, and not getting the full benefits of blue-blockers.
I could have sworn I saw someone say something about testosterone ...
Whether or not that is true, it seems worth noting that testosterone, by shunting WBCs away from internal organs, which is where most cancers originate, and toward the skin, in the (no longer true) assumption that there will be a need for healing the skin after fights for "mating rights". I have not seen any confirmation of what might be expected: cancers being more likely to get off the ground. But all I have seen is about prostate cancer, which is of course a small world. But at least in theory, testosterone supplementation should be dangerous.
Your comment made me feel you’re very fragile and need a safe place to hide out in. Perhaps you should hide under your bed for a few days till you feel comfortable and safe.
Fascinating article and I certainly agree with her that a huge number of people, especially women, have a terrible time with trying to control their weight and that this pill that will soon be out will produce a massive and sudden shift in our society. Obesity and processed food are the two main reasons for such poor health in our society. I was just watching a video this morning about mitochondria which mentioned that 20 to 40% of the weight loss from Ozempic is due to muscle and bone loss so it’d be much better to control weight by restricting calories but then most people can’t do that and as AI advances it’ll soon be put to use fine tuning these weight loss drugs to make them safe and that will have a massive effect on our society. As people get healthier and feel better we’ll be more diverted from hating each other and have a calmer society. Hope springs eternal.
I’m pleased that Casey Means is nominated for Surgeon General by Trump. Hopefully she will be confirmed. Her book ‘Good Energy’ (published May 2024) repackages ‘old wisdom’ about whole food eating, sleep and natural nocturnal fasting, mitochondrial health, etc. I was turned onto her book by Sasha posting interview w/ her brother (Calley) by Tucker last year, where Calley was raising the alarm over the ‘unnatural’ nature of Ozempic and its cousins. Namely that it paralyzes the stomach and small print on package states you must take for lifetime. That is not normal. He also speculated on unknown impact to mental health. Since our gut produce a lot of our daily dopamine and serotonin. Paralyze gastro tract and paralyze production of chemicals needed to regulate our mental well-being. The frightening thing is that future investor forecast of Novo Nordisk (Ozempic maker) is like a hockey stick. And this based on the high levels of diabetes and pre-diabetes in our country, fueled by over calorie consumption from processed foods chock full of seed oils. Which I think will someday be proven to be catalyst behind many cancers. We all die anyway, but do our yummy but dangerous foods speed that up?
I did read that. It was outstanding. I learned a lot from it. I did also see her on Tucker and what she said about Ozempic. I was surprised the article made no mention of the side effects. She seemed unaware of that but they can be very bad. Hopefully AI can improve it because for sure once it’s in pill form many more people will be using it. It could have a massively negative effect on our society on top of all our other problems.
I hope Pope Leo has a sense of humor, or we here in Chicago will have huge penance imposed on us. Most popular memes: Da Pope (play on the old SNL skit Da Bears). It’s now a sin to put ketchup on a hot dog. God bless the people of the world- except Green Bay.
And the White Sox fans are in 7th heaven after photos came out of Pope Leo at a Comiskey Park World Series game in 2005, wearing White Sox fan gear.
I spent four years living on one meal a day, due to my food budget being a dollar per day. Having almost all of my calories come from starch was, "all things being equal", probably not so good. But these days it appears to be true that damage from "un-healthy eating" is largely due to consuming too many calories. I think I was getting about a thousand calories per day. These days, if I consume two thousand calories per day, I lose a pound per day ...
I was getting carried away with what I said. I was thinking of cholesterol and ... something else. I just now found out what the "something else" was: triglycerides. Both cholesterol and triglycerides can be created by over-consumption of sugar/starch. This is to say that reducing consumption of cholesterol and triglycerides will not necessarily lead to lower levels of these in the blood. I do not know about proteins. But it seems to me that, in such cases, sugar/starch must be at least most of the problem.
I never blamed my parents for anything. I had a happy go lucky life. I took all the responsibilities of my failures, especially my poor choice of a husband. Yet, having gone a bit rogue with him, choosing to have my daughter was never a bad decision. I learned so much about life. From the very moment of conception, my life changed. While eventually I had to change course and leave the man behind, I set off west with two kids, never looking back. I raised them the best way I could, always choosing their wellbeing over my own. I made many sacrifices, but never felt I was missing something. They made me choose to be the best person I could be. ( I have to give credit to meeting Jesus while struggling in the marriage. He is my rock. )
Being a mom is the gift that keeps on giving. After retiring from my nursing career of 46 years, still the best accomplishment was being a mom. It has eternal value.
That's a great story. It reminds me of a song by Paula Cole she named "Happy Home". In my view, it's one of the great American anthems. It's about doing the best you could.
Really sweet! You are right about being encouraged to blame our parents. I feel like this whole "childhood trauma" culture is just the same thing in today's vocabulary. You are teaching your daughter important lessons. No one is perfect. Just try to up your game a bit every year. That is adulting.
"Feminist talk" is apparently stating the obvious, that my mother felt as though she didn't get to live her life. I forgot that on the Right women are not allowed to think that, not ever, not for one second. But it's the truth. That is how she felt about it and what she told us. Does she feel that way now? Probably. My mistake here was in writing from her perspective because I was trying to write a tribute to her. It was not meant to be an anti-feminist screed, though I have written many of those. Today was not the day to do that. Happy Mother's Day.
Happy Mother’s Day and thank you for sharing your grace, intellect and courage.
Anything worthwhile and good takes sacrifice and hard work. I learned this at 22 and started a family. It wasn't easy. The modern age has made some things easier but life will always require some hardship.
Can’t both be true at the same time? As a mother of adult kids, I’m endlessly grateful and see them as the best thing I’ve ever done in my life. But also the hardest. And also necessitated sacrificing “my life” for a season. I don’t see this sentiment as feminist or antifeminist. Just a paradox of motherhood.
Having worked for "Ma Bell" in 1969 I remembered:
In the 1960s, AT&T (then the Bell System) engineered and optimized parts of its long-distance telephone network based on traffic patterns observed on Mother’s Day, which was—at the time—the busiest calling day of the year.
Everyone at the last moment remembered to call their mom. A few sent Hallmark cards.
Maybe you’re mother felt that way because the culture had changed to prioritizing women’s liberation vs motherhood. Stay at home moms were demoralized.
I remember feeling like I never wanted to be a mom because it was disempowering. I want more for my life than just being a mom. Little did I know that it would be the most empowering and meaningful thing I would ever do in my life. I thank God I was blessed with 2 of the most wonderful human beings I will ever know.
The FOMO because of having children is the biggest Gaslighting of the last 2 generations in my opinion.
Amen and dam right KathyD ! Its still going on, and ain't it easy to gaslight 'masses' of people today with mass electronic media.
( ... I had to look up 'fear of missing out', btw. Thx for the teachable moment. )
My mother got married at 19 and raised 8 children. While she valued her role as wife and mother more than anything overall, she did occasionally express regret at not having lived and worked independently for awhile before she dove in. She did end up having a career later on in life and now has loads of time to pursue her own interests, but there are certain experiences that can only be had when one is young. It will always be a bit of a regret for her and that's the reality. I don't think that takes anything away from her valuation of motherhood, however. Two things can be true at the same time.
Sasha. Have you ever thought your Mom’s best life was being the mom to the four of you?
Being a parent partly means giving up for yourself to nurture someone else. I view it as a great gift and a great privilege. Sometimes it comes with sorrow and loss but it is definitely never something I regret.
My mother had 4 kids by age 29. When I try to imagine myself having 4 small kids at 29, (I don’t have children) I honestly don’t think I could have managed as she did. It was the 1970s and she was in charge of grocery shopping, cooking, daytime supervision, painting a room, she sewed my clothing and oversaw the household budget. With 3 brothers, there was a surprise almost every day. My relationship with my mother was complicated. During our 6 decades together, there were times I thought she was being mean or uncaring. But usually she was concerned, empathetic, always there for me, no matter the disaster. For the most part, she was the best friend I ever had. She was the first person I called when I got a raise, had a fender bender, came back from a great vacation, met a guy I liked. We talked most every few days. She’s been gone now for 9 years. There’s a huge, huge hole in my life that will never be filled. The words from her that stick in my head are “no one will ever love you like your mother” So true.
awwwwwwwwwwww, now i'm teary eyed SueB
"That “holding our parents accountable” thing is what ultimately led to crippling cancel culture." Yikes, hadn't thought of that origin story before, but it is so true. Love all the photos! Happy Mother's Day!!
I hadn't thought of it until just today.
Sasha, it was a great thought.
It has led to the development of the ‘me’ generation. Which sadly has messed up so many people.
May you be blessed for your sacrifice to raise your child the best way you knew how. It has shaped you into the beautiful woman you are 💐
"Holding parents accountable...led to cancel culture." Generally, I disagree. You can't "live in the moment" if you're constantly anchored to "the past." For example, little Susie is sexually abused by Daddy, e.g., "Delores Clairborn" or little Kevin is severely berated by Mommy, e.g., "Glass" and the resulting "Beast." It's why people marry their mother or father and continue the cycle. It may not be about "accountability," but recognizing behaviors and breaking "the generational cycle" via quality therapy, which is an oxymoron today. It is through this process that one can begin to enjoy life. But ok, maybe #metoo got started this way. There may be some conflating going on here.
Ah, but she did live her life, and those four kids were an essential part of it. God bless her and all mothers.
"One Big Family"
https://paritzer.substack.com/p/one-big-family?r=yupor&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
My mother was born in 1914 into a family of 9 siblings. She survived the great flu epidemic. She described the horse drawn hearse trudging along the street daily with flu victims. She started her family in 1935 in a small house heated by a wood stove. During the depression men came by looking for work. She put them to splitting wood in exchange for bologna sandwiches. Dad worked in a newly opened gold mine sinking the shaft, my educated guess he was making 35 cents per hour. They later bought a three bedroom house for $1800 and where 10 more children came into the world. Mom worked relentlessly to cook, clean and nurture. She never complained and was always tired. We saw their sacrifice and were always grateful. She knew this was her job and performed dutifully. At one time she was insulted for having eleven children to which she replied no money could ever equal what she had. We would do anything for her. To this day I can't imagine the hardships they endured to raise us. I caught a glimpse one night listening to Dad talking in his sleep. I visit every year where they both rest.
It's almost impossible for someone today to understand the real sacrifices and hardships our ancestors endured to build what we so easily take for granted today.
sooooo true Jeff!
Excellent piece. Love the photo of your mom and daughter together. Happy Mother's Day, Sasha.
Happy Mothers Day Sasha.! You presented an important message that we all need to learn: no one is perfect. Not your parents, not your children.
It’s now considered enlightened to decide that you are entitled to hold your less-than-perfect parent accountable to you for what you perceive as their shortcomings. In fact, it’s your obligation because that is the only way to become a truly happy adult.
What a massive crock of juvenile bullshit! News flash- raising you was not always a picnic for your parents either. We all do the best we can.
Grow up. Accept that people have shortcomings. Love them anyway. Just as you hope others love you despite the fact that you aren’t perfect.
Thanks for this post Sasha.
The best and easiest way to find forgiveness for the mistake of one's parents is to become one.
“It isn’t that they should live forever, but just that time moves too fast. The older you get, the faster it speeds by. Weeks feel days. Years feel like weeks. We try hard not to think about that part of it. We feel lucky, all of us, to wake up at all.”
I just turned 75 and feel like a healthy young man with the many memories of an old man. Never had a major health problem, rarely anything minor. My mother and uncle were crippled by RA, on my father’s side they all had osteoarthritis, joint pain but not crippling. I always expected some form of arthritis due to so much of it in my family history but I’ve never had even the slightest joint pain. I attribute this longevity with excellent health to decades of an intermittent fasting diet, one meal a day, plus anti-inflammatory supplements like curcumin/bioperine.
Most people find this too difficult to follow and will no doubt go with the pill when it comes out, possibly later this year. I recommend only staying on the pill till you develop the habit of one meal a day and then just going with the IF diet. As AI advances though no doubt this pill will become safer and safer and our society will become vastly healthier and therefore far more functional. The best of times. The worst of times.
“We’re giving people choices, and for women I think the impact of this pill could be as revolutionary as The Pill.”
“Before, if you wanted to lose weight and weren’t blessed with an iron will, you were screwed. But a few years from now, weight will, hopefully, be unclipped from willpower.”
“But shouldn’t you just learn to accept your body, whatever it may be? Shouldn’t you learn to love it? To not shrink yourself down to fit someone else’s ideal? Shouldn’t we change the world, to make it more accommodating, and kinder, to people who are built bigger?”
“Yes. But we tried valiantly to do that, and failed over and over.”
“I Don’t Need Ozempic. But I want it.”
GLP-1s are looking more and more like a miracle drug. Are we ready for miracles?
Real Clear Politics (May 10).The Free Press.Suzy Weiss. May 7, 2025
https://www.thefp.com/p/i-dont-need-ozempic-but-i-want-it?hide_intro_popup=true
Nice to hear from you SEVA!
Thanks, Sasha. Nice picture of your mom and daughter. Your daughter is pretty. You should tell her about intermittent fasting and encourage her to follow it in order to maintain good health and attractive appearance. I’ve seen so many young women like her who were pretty and then just over a couple of years gain a lot of weight and spoil their looks and probably also their health. Plus if your daughter learns to control something as basic as eating it will strengthen her self esteem and permeate all other areas of her life. Consistency to form good habits is the key to a functional life. Learning how to live is very important in life. Many people fail to learn this.
No eating after 8-9pm and not eating again until morning is the key. This is how it worked for humanity before invention of electricity. We went to bed when sun went down, because expensive to burn candle or oil lamps. This all meant the body burned visceral fat every evening - and NOT burn food sitting in belly. This is why no epidemic of diabetes before onset of electricity. But now days, TV and blue screens of phones keep people up (and snacking) into all hours of the night.
It seems that these days many (most?) computers/phones can automatically cut down on blue light. (Our reaction to blue light must be indirectly related to evening fires.) For TV, I somehow got really good "blue-blockers", strong enough that I literally cannot see the blue light from our cable box: it looks *exactly* like it does when it is turned off. I mention this only because if we are seeing any blue light at all, we are living in an un-natural state, and not getting the full benefits of blue-blockers.
I could have sworn I saw someone say something about testosterone ...
Whether or not that is true, it seems worth noting that testosterone, by shunting WBCs away from internal organs, which is where most cancers originate, and toward the skin, in the (no longer true) assumption that there will be a need for healing the skin after fights for "mating rights". I have not seen any confirmation of what might be expected: cancers being more likely to get off the ground. But all I have seen is about prostate cancer, which is of course a small world. But at least in theory, testosterone supplementation should be dangerous.
What you wrote seems to imply people eat after nine o'clock. Is this common? Usually, I have dinner and that's it for the day. Isn't that the norm?
and what if you're build like your eastern european grandmothers? and what if your metabolism is slow?
your comment made me feel very uncomfortable...
Your comment made me feel you’re very fragile and need a safe place to hide out in. Perhaps you should hide under your bed for a few days till you feel comfortable and safe.
Ditto! Seva thx for your post.
Fascinating article and I certainly agree with her that a huge number of people, especially women, have a terrible time with trying to control their weight and that this pill that will soon be out will produce a massive and sudden shift in our society. Obesity and processed food are the two main reasons for such poor health in our society. I was just watching a video this morning about mitochondria which mentioned that 20 to 40% of the weight loss from Ozempic is due to muscle and bone loss so it’d be much better to control weight by restricting calories but then most people can’t do that and as AI advances it’ll soon be put to use fine tuning these weight loss drugs to make them safe and that will have a massive effect on our society. As people get healthier and feel better we’ll be more diverted from hating each other and have a calmer society. Hope springs eternal.
I’m pleased that Casey Means is nominated for Surgeon General by Trump. Hopefully she will be confirmed. Her book ‘Good Energy’ (published May 2024) repackages ‘old wisdom’ about whole food eating, sleep and natural nocturnal fasting, mitochondrial health, etc. I was turned onto her book by Sasha posting interview w/ her brother (Calley) by Tucker last year, where Calley was raising the alarm over the ‘unnatural’ nature of Ozempic and its cousins. Namely that it paralyzes the stomach and small print on package states you must take for lifetime. That is not normal. He also speculated on unknown impact to mental health. Since our gut produce a lot of our daily dopamine and serotonin. Paralyze gastro tract and paralyze production of chemicals needed to regulate our mental well-being. The frightening thing is that future investor forecast of Novo Nordisk (Ozempic maker) is like a hockey stick. And this based on the high levels of diabetes and pre-diabetes in our country, fueled by over calorie consumption from processed foods chock full of seed oils. Which I think will someday be proven to be catalyst behind many cancers. We all die anyway, but do our yummy but dangerous foods speed that up?
I did read that. It was outstanding. I learned a lot from it. I did also see her on Tucker and what she said about Ozempic. I was surprised the article made no mention of the side effects. She seemed unaware of that but they can be very bad. Hopefully AI can improve it because for sure once it’s in pill form many more people will be using it. It could have a massively negative effect on our society on top of all our other problems.
Hey Seva, new pope is from Chicago too!
I hope Pope Leo has a sense of humor, or we here in Chicago will have huge penance imposed on us. Most popular memes: Da Pope (play on the old SNL skit Da Bears). It’s now a sin to put ketchup on a hot dog. God bless the people of the world- except Green Bay.
And the White Sox fans are in 7th heaven after photos came out of Pope Leo at a Comiskey Park World Series game in 2005, wearing White Sox fan gear.
Thanks Jude! He’ll need it just like we do. Btw he worked as a grounds keeper at my local Catholic cemetery.
I saw that. I read that he’s conservative but I don’t know anything else about him.
He worked as a grounds keeper at my local Catholic cemetery; he’s humble. I didn’t meet him though.
I spent four years living on one meal a day, due to my food budget being a dollar per day. Having almost all of my calories come from starch was, "all things being equal", probably not so good. But these days it appears to be true that damage from "un-healthy eating" is largely due to consuming too many calories. I think I was getting about a thousand calories per day. These days, if I consume two thousand calories per day, I lose a pound per day ...
“damage from "un-healthy eating" is largely due to consuming too many calories.”
And from processed foods and sugar. What you eat is also a major factor.
I was getting carried away with what I said. I was thinking of cholesterol and ... something else. I just now found out what the "something else" was: triglycerides. Both cholesterol and triglycerides can be created by over-consumption of sugar/starch. This is to say that reducing consumption of cholesterol and triglycerides will not necessarily lead to lower levels of these in the blood. I do not know about proteins. But it seems to me that, in such cases, sugar/starch must be at least most of the problem.
Happy Mother’s Day, Marine! Lol. Welcome back, Seva.
I never blamed my parents for anything. I had a happy go lucky life. I took all the responsibilities of my failures, especially my poor choice of a husband. Yet, having gone a bit rogue with him, choosing to have my daughter was never a bad decision. I learned so much about life. From the very moment of conception, my life changed. While eventually I had to change course and leave the man behind, I set off west with two kids, never looking back. I raised them the best way I could, always choosing their wellbeing over my own. I made many sacrifices, but never felt I was missing something. They made me choose to be the best person I could be. ( I have to give credit to meeting Jesus while struggling in the marriage. He is my rock. )
Being a mom is the gift that keeps on giving. After retiring from my nursing career of 46 years, still the best accomplishment was being a mom. It has eternal value.
That's a great story. It reminds me of a song by Paula Cole she named "Happy Home". In my view, it's one of the great American anthems. It's about doing the best you could.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjuao66X0D0
I hope you have a happy Mother's Day, Deb.
If there is a God above, He granted me a wonderful life that has been free of the "holding your parents accountable" thing. Just lucky, I guess.
God bless all the mothers. Mothers do the most important work of all and that's why we love them.
Really sweet! You are right about being encouraged to blame our parents. I feel like this whole "childhood trauma" culture is just the same thing in today's vocabulary. You are teaching your daughter important lessons. No one is perfect. Just try to up your game a bit every year. That is adulting.
Happy Mother’s Day
Old saying - it might be your parent’s fault that you are the way you are, but it’s your fault if you stay that way.
Beautiful piece, Sasha....Happy Mother's Day!!!