Comments for The New Rambler

Comment on New Year’s Projects by Nicole Ellis

Nicole Ellis — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:25:58 +0000

i have a friend who has eating disorder, she was rehabilitated when she almost died.;-:

Comment on On Mother’s Day by Anne Tanner

Anne Tanner — Mon, 10 May 2010 14:19:14 +0000

Great tribute to outstanding women.

Comment on Me & Bill Ayers: In Which I Pal Around With Terrorists, Remember My Father, and Reaffirm the First Amendment by Cindy Moore

Cindy Moore — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:53:45 +0000

So well put. I wish I could come up with that kind of language. Thanks for the great history and perspective!

Comment on Me & Bill Ayers: In Which I Pal Around With Terrorists, Remember My Father, and Reaffirm the First Amendment by Anne Tanner

Anne Tanner — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:41:40 +0000

Super post, Laura. Having read so much on the subject you can understand why so many of us who lived through that time are still obsessed with it.

Comment on Me & Bill Ayers: In Which I Pal Around With Terrorists, Remember My Father, and Reaffirm the First Amendment by Laura

Laura — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:14:09 +0000

No, I have not! But I just put a copy on hold. So excellent!

Comment on Me & Bill Ayers: In Which I Pal Around With Terrorists, Remember My Father, and Reaffirm the First Amendment by Marianne

Marianne — Thu, 06 May 2010 03:34:38 +0000

You *HAVE* read A Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, right? Heaven is where people sit around conversing and arguing, indeed. (If you haven’t, I can send you my copy.)

Comment on On Listening to Ani Difranco by Laura

Laura — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:27:38 +0000

And Mark, thank you for your comments, which I am only just now seeing, as WordPress for some reason no longer sees fit to email me when someone comments on my blog. Anyway. I love that Ani applies to men, too — I just wanted to write about a particular way that she applied to me, in a way that was particularly female.

Comment on On Listening to Ani Difranco by Mark

Mark — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:50:10 +0000

As you know, Laura, you can find a fair few Ani lyrics on my blog. You can also find a fair few of them in my graduate sociology and philosophy papers. She just has a way of saying what needs to be said.

I came to Ani (Dilate tour) as a 40-year-old white male, just divorced, in college full-time, just “retired” from the Army and trying to figure out this world while trying to come back to life and beat the severe chronic depression & suicidal tendencies the Army had inflicted on me.

Ani quite literally may have saved my life. I am so so very happy for all the things she has done for millions of women across the years. But I also full well know that you do NOT need to be a woman to greatly benefit from the lessons/example she provides.

Except for the bootlegs (have only one) I have everything she has put out. I haven’t been as intrigued by much of the newer stuff–don’t care for the arrangements but do love the point of view.

I have taken my daughter to see her and recently had the honor of taking my fiance to see Ani for her 1st time.

Thank you for this post, even if it doesn’t “exactly” apply to me. ;)

Comment on The Sit-In, Ten Years Later by Laura

Laura — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:33:50 +0000

Oh, I know! The plaid was the first thing I noticed, too! Ned (first on the left) claims he wore the same outfit to teach the other day. It was not far removed from the 1990s, and we were in Iowa. That is my excuse.

Comment on The Sit-In, Ten Years Later by Marianne

Marianne — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:15:36 +0000

I am apparently in full-on terribly-shallow-person mode, because I immediately clicked through to the picture and my thoughts were of the “so young! so much plaid!” variety.

But. This post is thoughtful and useful and interesting, is what is *important* among my thoughts:) Thanks.