Yearly Archives: 2015
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rice sock: pretty weird, sometimes useful
Posted on July 29, 2015 by nikki in odds and sods, pregnancy and childbirth.I just opened a better-forgotten drawer at the bottom of my dresser and a flutter of tiny moths burst from dark to light. Though I should’ve just shoved the drawer closed and deleted the event from my working memory so as to not have to launch counter warfare (which we all know is impossible – […]
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daddy’s home: how getting a dog can break relationship rules
Posted on June 20, 2015 by nikkimeredith in dogs, marriage.I’d like to blame my husband for this deviant practice but, in truth, I started it. Even so, I think I can still blame him because the practice doesn’t bother him as much as it bothers me. In fact, it may not bother him at all but I’m too busy being bothered by it to […]
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the shrinks were in on it? we need to talk about torture again. and again. and again.
Posted on May 26, 2015 by nikki in odds and sods.I am disgusted. A few months ago, my mom wrote a post about the Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report, imploring us all to not let our outrage with the government-sponsored (ineffective) “intelligence-seeking” barbarities fade with the news cycle. A new bombshell released last month makes her call to action even more salient. The American Psychological […]
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can we please talk about torture? please?
Posted on January 30, 2015 by nikkimeredith in politics and religion, science/research.In mid-December, a few days after Diane Feinstein released the Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture, I was dining out with friends. About an hour into dinner, after we’d talked about grandchildren, books, work, movies, our growing list of age-related maladies, there was a pause in the conversation and I blurted: “Can we talk about […]
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