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.
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Kenley's voice = nails on chalkboard. I'm firmly in the Korto camp, as she is my Central Arkansas homegirl!!
Posted by: Lisa | September 25, 2008 at 03:31 PM
I couldn't believe it -- not only was that outfit not hip hop, it wasn't attractive and it wasn't well made! Did you see the way the fly was flapping up on those ghastly pants? I can't believe there is a viewer out there who thought Suede deserved to go home, rather than Kenley.
Is it maybe their way of making sure we tune in for the next episode, so we can cheer as she gets the boot?
Posted by: Summer | September 25, 2008 at 04:33 PM
I was flabberghasted! That was the ugliest 'look' I've ever seen on the show, and I've seen a lot.
Posted by: Kathy B. | September 25, 2008 at 04:54 PM
The upside is that we will no longer have to listen to Suede refer to himself in the third person.
Posted by: Kelly | September 25, 2008 at 06:21 PM
Yes, Kenley is a totall biznatch, BUT, on the high-waisted jeans as hip-hop point, check these out:
http://media.drjays.com/media/310/438/files/3104385.jpg
http://media.drjays.com/media/267/480/files/2674801.jpg
And even this jumpsuit:
http://media.drjays.com/media/298/168/files/2981686.jpg
It CAN be done, she just didn't do it right.
Apparently, Jerrel said something that slipped past the censors: "BADUSSY cat dolls." Heehee!
Posted by: Melanie | September 25, 2008 at 06:47 PM
I totally agree. Those pants?? Ugh!
The fact that Korto WON that challenge when she had not previously designed men's wear shows her versatility.
Posted by: Amie | September 25, 2008 at 08:30 PM
You all totally have gotten me into this show. Before watching it, I had thought it was a show about models, which I was not interested. Now I've been following for weeks and am LOVING it!
That said, I can't believe Kenley is still on after the mess she created last night! And I can't pick if I like Korto or Jerrel better, because just about always love what they both make.
And LL Cool J? Still smoking hot!
Posted by: caramama | September 26, 2008 at 10:00 AM
"And LL Cool J? Still smoking hot!"
Is it wrong that I was desperately trying to think of ways in which he could be enticed (in the context of the show, of course) to take his shirt off? The man's abs are a thing of beauty.
Moxie, what kind of machinations do you think are being foisted on the judges? Are they not the final arbiters?
Posted by: Kate | September 26, 2008 at 12:25 PM
Kate--the end credits say that the judges pick the winners and losers with input from the producers.
Posted by: vickie | September 26, 2008 at 01:07 PM
In that case, I don't see what this white girl stuck in the 1950s has to add to Bryant Park. Every other contestant has been far more versatile. Her sewing is fine...except for this week, when she didn't make a dress! How could she put out a collection of 10 or 12 things that is a variation of the same dress over and over? I mean, I guess she could, but how could that possibly win?
Posted by: Kate | September 26, 2008 at 02:01 PM
She even said, "Oh, she'll look great in one of my dresses!" on one ep or another... maybe that was last week. But anyway, she just irks the crud out of me.
I really, really like Leanne... I think her sewing abilities are top notch and I honestly would wear most of what she designs. Same with Korto.
And Suede, while somewhat loony, was very likeable.
KENLEY MUST GO
Posted by: jen | September 27, 2008 at 10:57 AM
So tonight at 10, can we all arrange some sort of Harmonic Convergence to push Kenley out?
Korto, Jerrell, Leeanne. Korto, Jerrell, Leeanne. Chant with me, people!
Posted by: Slim | October 01, 2008 at 10:32 AM
Did anyone else see the annoyance meter in the Onion? Kenley is making her mark, although not as a designer.
Posted by: Slim | October 06, 2008 at 07:57 AM
I'm way behind on watching PR - but after the Phillies lost tonight I decided to console myself by watching Part I of the Finale. Did anyone else notice that Kenley was the only one of the designers during the home visit who had no friends, no family? Has she annoyed everyone in her own life, too?
Posted by: theresa | October 24, 2008 at 01:12 AM