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I’ve been feeling pretty grouchy about women’s rights today, culminating in finding this quoted in a lovely religious progressive group blog: “Who,” [Atlanta Lutheran-Missouri Synod pastor Joshua] Genig asked, “is speaking up for the mothers who, under HHS mandate, have been falsely coerced into feeling that to be a woman means to have ‘control’ of their own bodies?” [...] NB: I wrote my real return address on the letters, but blurred it out for the internet. I didn’t only use the heart stamps for my letters to the priests in my community who support protests which intimidate pregnant women because they’re the ones I have on-hand. A few weekends ago, I witnessed a dramatic [...] According to 40 Days of Life of Pittsburgh, a non-profit which connects pro-life protesters with clinics to protest during Lent, there are 70+ churches which support 40 Days for Life. 40 Days for Life of Pittsburgh provide a pdf listing all of them here. When I walked into the clinic Wednesday to volunteer phone banking [...] I’ve been bribing myself into studying and working out these past few weeks. For three weeks now, I’ve worked out 4 days a week, every week. Since Wednesday, I’ve spent at least an hour a day working on my French or Arabic vocabulary. My prize for working out is that I get to listen to [...] I’ve been going to the Lair of the Bear (the Berkeley Alumni summer family camp) since I was 3. But every year, the Lair’s charms scale up. While the sandbox and tempting/terrifying possibilities of crawdads were the wonders of my elementary school years, today I’m looking forward to hanging out with my cousins (some incredibly [...] |
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