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Re: Japan is just becoming like the U.S.
Actually, part of the current economic problem in Japan is the younger generation is opting out of the very consumer society that supercharged the economic engine in the 60s and 70s. This is the first carless generation (kuruma-banare) that is hamstringing domestic auto sales. Ironic in that the young have less money to buy new cars precisely ...
Posted to Moneybox by tedankhamen on July 20, 2009
Graduation, Mother, Cheater Father, Step-etc.
Might I suggest that it's not her mother's event. It's HER OWN GRADUATION. NOT HER MOTHER's! If mother (or whoever) wants to act like a child let her do it at something that is her own event. If mother doesn't get it together she will be missing out on a lot more than a cheating ex-husband. In our family we decided that we would treat my ...
Posted to Dear Prudence by Vanhoy on May 20, 2009
Your thoughtful and moving series
You have captured it so well, the endlessly complex and painful vicissitudes of mother-loss. I'm so sorry about your mother. Losing her when she was still in her prime truly must feel unbearable. My mother died in January, at 85, after a journey I can only describe as endlessly complicated, not just medically, but in every other way. I have begun ...
Posted to Grieving by MHolmesI on April 10, 2009
Dreaming of the dead . . .
My sister sent me this article - we lost our mother four weeks ago yesterday. You have articulated so many of my feelings - like you were looking into my soul. I have yet to dream of Mother - but the night she died, Dad appeared in my dream.He hadn't been around in a long time. When Dad did appear in my dreams, he was there in the bacground - ...
Posted to Grieving by ct1950la on March 21, 2009
My heart is filled with ashes
Dear Ms. O'Rourke I lost my Mom seven months ago to liver cancer and still cannot indentify the stages that I was supposed to go through. I'm lost on an ocean of grief. My heart is broken and feels like it will never heal and like you, I don't know if I want it to heal. The only thing I have left of my Mom is memories and my shattered heart and ...
Posted to Grieving by piye242 on March 5, 2009
Re: Writing and Grieving
I'm working on the same thing. A few years ago my parents died a few months apart from one another, both unexpectedly. They'd both been decades-long close friends and inspirations to me. Between their deaths were those of my two closest and longest friends, both happening to also be musician/writers, and both dying of sudden illnesses, far too ...
Posted to Grieving by justasecond on February 25, 2009
Baby diaper options- Biodegradable Composting Diaper Service
In response to the cloth diaper quandary, probably the best option out there is a biodegradable diaper composting service called Earth Baby. They work much like a cloth diaper service, but use biodegradable diapers and wipes. Now here is the best part... they collect the dirty diapers and compost them in a industrial facility completing the link ...
Posted to The Green Lantern by jplacount on January 23, 2009
Vintage Hitchens destroys Gov Palin's remains
Mr Hitchens warns us of his ire with the 2 year campaign in his 1st sentence which goes far from being soured gastric juices. A manufacturing chemist who works daily with the most toxic compounds will identiy the composition of Mr Hitchins's 1st sentence for us shortly. I wish to be enlightened. Sarah Palin's remains, political & earthly, ...
Posted to Fighting Words by larry278 on October 28, 2008
Robert the Bruce of the Crusade issue
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Posted to XX Factor by Independence on August 11, 2008
Backlash fathers rights groups
I strongly encourage women, feminists and allies to learn about the Fathers Rights movement. While this article does not specify this group, they are the ones that blame women and feminists for their problems in divorce. They claim that Family Court has been high-jacked by feminists. (In fact, research finds women are biased against & often ...
Posted to XX Factor by Jomada on August 4, 2008

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