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Required Reading: six picks.

November 27, 2012 by Stacey 8 Comments

OK so I have this habit of emailing myself interesting articles to read when I have more time, since I’m usually busy and flicking through twitter quickly and don’t have the mental acuity or five minutes’ peace to read them properly. Then what happens is I have fifteen interesting articles in a row that I don’t have time for and I do it pretty much every day. then my inbox is terrifying and I try not to look at it. (Sorry anyone waiting for an email!)

Occasionally after the kiddies go to bed I get around to pouring a cup of tea and fighting the cat for couch space to read the bits and pieces I’ve squirrelled away. I hope you find something of value in my hodgepodge of interests.

1. Elderly Chinese man models for granddaughter’s teen fashion line

Oh ma gawsh this thing had me cheering! Grandpa is WORKING IT. I shared on Facebook recently because I thought it was the raddest thing on the internet. “Why unacceptable (for someone like me to wear women’s clothes ? Modeling for the store is helping my granddaughter and I have nothing to lose. We were very happy on the day of the shooting. I’m very old and all that I care about is to be happy,” He says. What. A. Legend. The photos will make your day.

2. The daily routines of famous writers

This was shared by the gorgeous Bianca Bigwords on her Facebook page… and it made me want to have a bourbon and a cigarette and to write, write, write. Never mind I don’t smoke and hate bourbon. It made me wish I had a cottage on an island, uninterrupted stretches of time and a long-suffering wife who left trays of food outside my door. Writing seems so romantic, but  sometimes it’s just a killer exercise in self-discipline.

3. How worrying about math hurts your brain

So it turns out math can trigger an anxiety reaction that is very similar to the way pain looks in the brain. I found this so interesting because I myself suffer from a little math anxiety – my brain pretty much goes blank when faced with a mathematical problem and the harder I try to concentrate and think about it, the more my brain blanks and stalls and the more worried I get that I’m taking too long. Calculating someone’s change in the supermarket was torturous for me, I felt so incompetent and upset. I can spell just about any word in the world, but can’t multiply anything to save myself.

4. Hillary’s next move

Hillary Clinton said many months ago that if Obama was elected for a second term, she would not continue in her post as Secretary of State. It remains to be seen if she’ll run in 2012 (although she denies it, she may just change her mind) and I found this little insight in the New York Times into what’s next for her so fascinating. I’m an American politics tragic and find Hillary to be a little bit of a hero for me. Super intelligent and kicking ass for women all over the world. She reveals her favourite TV show, and it’s pretty surprising!

5. PND – It’s not always black and white

Last week was post and antenatal depression awareness week, and lots of bloggers shared stories of their experiences. One of my favourite bloggers, Emma from Mind your Mum, wrote so eloquently about how depression and postnatal depression is viewed in Japan – that it is a community issue and that when one person is suffering, it should be the responsibility of all to come together to support them. Their definition of an individual illness such as depression is “one’s heart is ill with a cold” to help describe the importance of depression’s medical aspect.

“It was explained to me as, No war against forces unseen and without title are won alone.  If the soul of the mother next to you is not in harmony and happiness, then there is unrest among all souls around her. This is considered a community issue, as the happiness and harmony of the group is valued higher than ones individual happiness. If one is unhappy, all are unhappy.”

 I could quote her whole damn blog post, it is so wonderfully written. She has also recounted stories of her own PND issues, and does so with love and care and respect and a hell of a lot of wit. Such a good egg, that one.
6. First World Problems
Ok PLEASE do not read this if you are easily offended. I have a very liberal sense of humour and this post at Bitches Gotta Eat had me ROFLWAFFLEing all over my LOLERSKATES. I’m only new to this blog, but I am addicted as hell. Samantha is the smack upside your head you didn’t know you needed.
“larae taught me how to do a smokey eye with browns/bronzes instead of grey/black, and it was gorgeous for approximately thirty-two seconds … i’m not getting up at five in the morning to put a face on that will have melted into my neck meat by lunchtime.”
Neck meat. I can’t breathe!
Anyway, like I don’t have anything better to do, hit me up with what you’ve read recently that you found inneresting. Perhaps we could make it a little regular feature out of it – like a book club but not books because I’m not Oprah. I love reading stuff and I can’t read the whole internet by myself, so I need some help finding the gold!

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. Reannon Hope says

    November 27, 2012 at 7:57 am

    The Good Men Project has some good reads. I’m raising boys so I find I devour anything that is related to that but they have lots of good stuff!

    Reply
    • Veggie Mama says

      November 27, 2012 at 9:32 pm

      Excellent! Thanks so much for the tip, I’ll check it out x

      Reply
  2. flyingdrunkenmonkey says

    November 27, 2012 at 9:50 am

    You’ve inspired me to go through my Pocket app and read some of the 3,000+ articles I’ve saved in there. I’ll probably be sharing the interesting ones on Twitter – @flydrunkmonkey. I was hoping there was someway I could share the whole unread list but there doesn’t seem to be at the moment. A few good Twitterers to follow for interesting links are: @brainpicker @lukeayresryan & @ProfessorFunk or even just look at the hashtag #longreads

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    • Veggie Mama says

      November 27, 2012 at 9:31 pm

      I cannot believe you have so many! I thought I was bad! Thanks for the tips – I also follow @colvinius, he tweets the best links ever. I have so many longreads emails sitting there waiting for me haha. Try Limited News longreads if you haven’t already xx

      Reply
  3. Michelle Lisle says

    November 27, 2012 at 1:08 pm

    I completely understand the math problem and like you am a whiz at english, can spell anything and always beat my husband in scrabble or any word game for that matter..lol…which he hates with good humour. It’s so true about the brain blanking out, every time I had to do a test in school I would get a complete mental blank and freeze….how I passed I don’t know.
    I loved that article about the grandfather modelling for his grand-daughter, what a legend!
    And yes looking after someone with pnd should be a community effort, no one should be left to struggle on their own, even prisoners get help, so new mums not coping too well should get even more help.

    Reply
    • Veggie Mama says

      November 27, 2012 at 9:30 pm

      I definitely was in the extra-help maths class, I just could not cope with the regular ones! I love your analogy about prisoners getting help, you’re absolutely right that mums should be supported also xx

      Reply
  4. Raynor says

    November 27, 2012 at 10:31 pm

    Grandpa modeling for his granddaughter is the best ever in the world. Legit actual best. So fierce.

    Reply
    • Veggie Mama says

      November 28, 2012 at 1:08 pm

      I LOVE IT SO MUCH I NEARLY BROKE MY COMPUTER.

      Reply

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