Tag Archives: Parenting
Poverty thoughts: Why even bother?
This weekend the girls weren’t home. My mom took them for a visit before school starts again. It was just me and my husband. This weekend was mind-numbing. I wasn’t bored so much as just disconnected. I can’t do anything. There … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustine, Augustine of Hippo, Dishwasher, Dishwashing liquid, Family, Home warranty, James Clarke, Netflix, Palatka, Palatka Florida, Parenting, parents, poor, Poverty, Redbox, Skyrim, St. Augustine, Television, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, wages, welfare, working poor
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Vomiting Subway Employee: Industry Standard
You’ve probably already heard the story of Elizabeth Taff, a 24 year old employee for the Subway sandwich chain who was fired when she left work after being taken to the hospital for a, very contagious, stomach virus. Everyone outside of the … Continue reading
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Tagged begging, Clothing, Elizabeth Taff, Facebook, Family, food stamps, Freeport Texas, Gastroenteritis, Grocery store, Health, Home warranty, hunger, Labor, Laundry, LinkedIn, Living wage, Minimum wage, Parenting, Poverty, Self-service laundry, Subway, Texas, Vomiting, WalMart, Washing, Washing machine, work, working poor
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My Poor Mind: Poverty on the Brain
I recently saw a video on Upworthy.com and it really got me thinking. The video is talking about the mental health and overall well being of middle class, and upper middle class, women and how stress effects their minds and bodies. This doesn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Brain, Business, Chemical reaction, Fight-or-flight response, Food, food stamps, Health, Home, homeless, hunger, Labor, Living wage, Magnetic resonance imaging, Mental health, Mind, Minimum wage, National Institute of Mental Health, Parenting, poor, Poverty, SNAP, United States, Wage, WalMart, welfare, work
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We Need Solutions Not Reactions
I imagine that most people have heard about Tennessee’s new “Arrest Pregnant Addicts” rule. I also imagine that some of you think that this is an amazing idea. And if you do, I will never admit to you that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Dandridge Tennessee, drug abuse, Family, Google, Health, Labor, Lacey Weld, mother, motherhood, mothering, mothers, Parenting, Poverty, Pregnancy, Substance Abuse, Substance dependence, Tennessee, US, welfare, work
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HuffPo’s Pagan Fail…effort to be inclusive overflows with fail (Updated)
Since I originally posted this piece two things have happened 1) Tova’s story and video were moved to HuffPo’s Religion section 2) my complaint about it being in Weird News was deleted from the comments. Other than that, everything else … Continue reading
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Tagged AOL, child, Children, Contemporary Paganism, Gerald Gardner, Huffington Post, HuffPo, Mailing Lists, mother, motherhood, mothering, mothers, Organizations, Pagan, Pagan parenting, Paganism, Parenting, Religion and Spirituality, Ricky Camilleri, Webweaving, Weird News, Wicca, Witch, Witchcraft
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Weight loss level: Do you have cancer?
I’ve mentioned before that my family has been loosing nutrition and food in general over the past year. I hadn’t really thought much of it since I was kind of fat to begin with. Right now I’m actually sort of … Continue reading
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Tagged American Cancer Society, begging, Cancer, Family, Florida, Health, Living wage, Medicine, Minimum wage, Parenting, Physician, poor, Poverty, Torbay Hospital, United States, work
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Working? Then you owe the company big for doing you a favor bitch!
If you have a job, consider yourself lucky, don’t complain. Just shut up and take it. If you have a shitty job, you’ve done something to deserve it. Shut up and take it. If you complain about your job, you … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, CWA, Family, Florida, hunger, Hurricane Sandy, Kentucky, Labor, Living wage, Minimum wage, Ohio, Parenting, poor, Poverty, union, United States, West Virginia, work
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My Ten Year Anniversary
I grew up with hippyish, divorced, parents. My dad wore cutoff jeans, long hair, and ball caps to work. And always smelled like sawdust. My mom had big hair and swollen feet from standing on them all day. Since my … Continue reading
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Tagged Big hair, Family, Florida, Home, hunger, Kentucky, Labor, Long hair, McMansion, Parenting, Pikeville Kentucky, poor, Poverty, Ten Year Anniversary, work
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My Husband’s Shame (why it’s unfair)
My husband was raised by a traditional family. Not traditional like mine where there was a franticly planned wedding to coincide with a couple of missed periods. But a real live honest to goodness traditional family. Like TV level traditional. … Continue reading
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Tagged Family, Florida, Home, Kentucky, Labor, Living wage, Minimum wage, Parenting, poor, Poverty, shame, United States, Wage, wages, working poor
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Almost Interestingly Enough 