@quachelsey
My friends never understood why I chose to stay home with the kids either. They told me it was a waste of education. Thing is, my kids got to benefit from my education rather than some random boss.
This is why so many woman are choosing to have a natural, at home birth 🪷
1. 𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆𝒓, 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒓 𝒏𝒐𝒕.
Your chances of having a smooth and “easy” delivery are higher when you have a home birth. One reason being, there are…
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning was very woman-centric.
Rebecca Ferguson
Hayley Atwell
Vanessa Kirby
Pom Klementieff
All 35+ years old. They stole the show.
It always takes my breath away when I walk into an Orthodox church when I am traveling and realize that everything is the same - same music, same smells, same candles, same liturgy. No matter where on Earth I am, home.
Does anyone else experience a personality change when speaking in another language?
When I speak in Greek, I am less willing to put up with bullsh*t and I am more likely to tell it like it is.
The Greeks have even more than that:
Eros (sexual passion)
Philia (deep friendship)
Ludus (playful love)
Agape (love for everyone)
Pragma (longstanding love)
Philautia (love of the self)
Storge (family love)
Mania (obsessive love)
In English, we unexpectedly 'fall' in love, but in Persian, love has stages:
First the 'havā' (infatuation) of youth,
then the 'dūstī' (affectionate love) of a couple,
followed by 'eshq' (passionate love) of newlyweds,
and finally the 'mohabbat,' (caring love) of an old couple.
Three year old asked where I got the cheese I was eating. I said it fell out of the sky. She asked how. I said someone threw it from a plane. She asked why. I said it was a Cheese Plane. They fly by and throw cheese. She is now outside looking to the heavens, hoping for cheese.
I have a friend who is a successful marriage counselor, and I say successful because relationship counseling is notoriously difficult and usually not successful.
Her advice to couples who are having trouble is NOT to keep talking about their problems because that is not how you…
Now lets discuss the advantages of pebble beaches over sand beaches.
- crystal clear water
- foot reflexology, totally serious
- no sand to wash off
- the sound
Also Mani
I am happy to report that the largely male-dominated cafe in Greece remains alive and well.
These 2 gentlemen gave me permission to post their photos. Also, they have more class in their little finger than all of you put together.
There is something odd about the way GenZ/young millennials perceive of the future. They can’t imagine themselves in it. They also don’t have a good sense of the past which is related. Without the past there can be no future. Something weird is happening with our sense of time.
Today’s Shaker Heights home sale of note.
Built in 1917
$1 M
“The craftsmanship in the home is remarkable, with a Juliet balcony overlooking a baronial two story vaulted great room replete with exquisite detail. The staircase is exqusite with curved railings and steps. The…
@BasisOfCulture
A few years ago I was visiting one of the monasteries at Meteora and the monk who was giving us a tour refused to look at me. Kept his eyes averted the whole time.
After dinner, most restaurants in Greece will bring you an after dinner drink, whether it is limoncello, raki or masticha. They don’t ask you. They just bring it. And for this reason, I love my country.
@PaulSkallas
My brother in law has been in the air conditioning and refrigeration business for 40 years and can tell you the temperature in the air to the degree.
Raising kids to help around the house or to participate in the family business or to take care of siblings is not child labor. Child labor is what we promote when we force kids to go to school everyday from 8 to 3 and to participate in all of those extracurricular activities.
Lovely Twitter friends,
Alas, all good things must come to an end. It’s been a month. Time to go home. I’ve loved sharing my experiences of this most beautiful country with you.
I leave you with ΕΛΛΑΣ 2023 - the beach edition.
Enjoy!
Pisses Beach in Kea
In the US when someone asks you how old you are, you will say “30” if you just had your 30th bday.
In Greece the correct answer is “I have finished my 30th year and have entered my 31st.” This is more accurate.
The way money impacts fertility is that now that both men and women work, the decrease in income that occurs when the baby comes - via childcare costs or one parent dropping out of the workforce - is far more painful than it was before women went to work.
This double income is…
How to do vacation in Greece. Find an Airbnb. It doesn’t matter where as long as it is relatively close to the shore. And show up.
This guarantees you excellent swimming, wonderful hikes, access to crazy views, a Greek village, cafes, at least one Church, Ancient ruins, goats,…
The real war between men & women happened when extended families broke apart and women ended up isolated in the suburbs taking care of their children alone. All the time-saving household devices & mother’s little helpers in the world couldn’t quell the rage. I get it. Don’t u?
All these fitness chicks are coping that they’re still that hot at 35
No ladies - you can’t be that hot at 35.
22 year olds will outcompete you. Don’t shoot the message
I am grateful to my parents, may they rest in peace, for all of the parties that they hosted when I was growing up, giving me the opportunity to learn the art of entertaining. It’s an honor and a privilege to be able to bring friends into one’s home for good food, drink,…
@MannyTZ
It’s a good question. I watched people with many degrees/big careers sacrifice so much. Their time was not their own. Family was not prioritized. Women were encouraged to be like men. None of that sat well with me.
I love this.
My plan is to move to wherever my daughters are when they have children. And also to give them financial help from the beginning rather than saving the money for their inheritance. The early years are so critical. They should be front loaded in every way.
Allow me to summarize why Lex Friedman is a loser.
Books are sacred & should be treated with respect. When someone writes a book, he’s giving you a piece of his soul. People who put your book on their to-do bucket list, next to buy potatoes & toilet p., don’t deserve to read it
Some perspective:
Lets say you have 2 kids, 2 yrs apart. If you decide to stay home w/ them until the youngest is 3 years old, which is developmentally when children have the ego strength necessary for greater independence and socialization, you will have sacrificed 5 years of…
I do not like it when people refer to raising children as “work.” Even the word “parenting” is problematic. It suggests that raising children is something you can turn on and off.
Raising children is not work. It is not parenting. It is something else.
So yesterday when I was at Sephora, a mom, dad & daughter walked in - girl was around 12 yo. Dad told the salesperson that he discovered that his daughter had taken things from the store without paying & that she was here to pay up & face whatever legal consequences were…
So this is what I wore on Christmas Eve and it is also what I was planning to wear for Valentines Day dinner except that my flight is delayed as most flights are these days (in the US) so lets just pretend.
Happy Valentine’s Day Lovers.