Btw, here is some advice from my antenatal class that I like to pass on. When you feel the first contractions, have a glass of wine and a pasta meal (or similar, simple, filling meal), and try to get some rest. (Assuming the previous 9 months have been fairly straightforward).
Genius.
This still happens. I had a navy buddy whose first real exposure to non-white people was the military after growing up in a super racist and poor rural town. He learned black people, etc, weren't bad. The taxes from just his pay alone were enough of a difference to let them pave some dirt roads.
That’s authoritarianism: It identifies a small segment of society as a menace from which the other 99% must be protected, and then gradually expands the definitional boundaries of that group to include any one else who opposes, questions, besmirches, or embarrasses those in power.
The Kindle app is the only way I read now.
You have just explained someone to me. A friend of my sister’s who is a very successful lawyer, but at social events appears to be someone who shouldn’t be allowed out on her own.
I'll never forget the staff meeting where the senior engineer, who always knitted during meetings, said at the ending, "Well, I got an inch of sock out of that; I don't know what the rest of you got." She went on to become a professional sock designer and wrote a book on reading charts.
My mother says that once they can read and ride a bicycle, that’s basically parenting done. You’re well on your way.