Moxie: Welching

Highly Recommended

Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi: The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke
Reading this book explained a whole lot of things about why so many families I know are struggling financially, even though we don't spend extravagantly. Simultaneously enlightening and nauseating.
Elizabeth Warren: All Your Worth : The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan
If other personal finance books have frustrated you because they assume you have money to invest and you don't even have enough money to buy a large coffee, this is the personal finance book for you. Reading this book showed me that it's not that I waste money on stupid things--it's that our basic expenses are too high to begin with. Reading this book is the end of financial guilt and the beginning of getting out of the hole.
Adele Faber: Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
Lots of great ideas to think about and put into practice about not assigning your kids roles and how to approach fights. Also goes over some of the stuff from the How to Talk So Kids Will Listen book about making kids feel understood. Because, really, that's all anyone wants--to be understood. And kids are people, too.
Anne Lamott: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Just perfect. A beautiful, funny, sad, accurate account of what the first days, weeks, and months with a baby are like. This is exactly what your journal would be, if you could write as well as she does.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc: Random Family : Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
LeBlanc's writing and pacing makes you want to keep reading despite the tragic story. Think you have an informed opinion about welfare reform and how to strengthen families in this country? Not until you've read this book.
John Taylor Gatto: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
This is the red pill. Don't read it if you want to stay comfortable with the American school system. Gatto goes into why government-owned schools were created and the things they actually teach us.
Ellis Avery: The Smoke Week: September 11-21, 2001
If you have any curiosity about what it was like for New Yorkers during the World Trade Center attacks, this is the book to read. A brilliant, crystalline, spot-on memoir of the week or so after the attacks, this book is an ode to New Yorkers. Realistic, clean, and completely un-maudlin, it's just the story of what it was like for us. This is what should go into a time capsule to represent September 2001.

Welching

I knew I said I wasn't going to watch The Bachelorette because I was so disgusted by the Jason Mesnick Bachelor. But my DVR taped The Bachelorette on Monday (I fell asleep on the couch at 9:30). And my new self is way more in touch with my evil side, so I started watching just to check out the guys, and I may be in.

Maybe.

(Preliminary picks for the Final Three before they showed the promo for the upcoming season were Jake (the pilot), Jesse (the winemaker and aspiring Canadian), and either the foot fetishist or the slick ball-throwing guy. After the promo I'm not sure anymore.)

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Comments

I wasn't going to watch either after the Jason disaster. (Did anyone love seeing Melissa ROCK the dance floor on DWTS?) But, I do love Jillian. I like Jake, the pilot and Jesse the winemaker. I also like Kiptyn (sp?). The foot fetish guy completely freaked me out. Eww. The Bachelorette is always good for some summertime drama.

Posted by: Julie | May 22, 2009 at 12:23 PM

I am so not watching this :) But I will be happy to hear your updates and analysis.

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