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Average cheeseburgers, Bridget Jones, and an almost finished hat

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Average cheeseburgers, Bridget Jones, and an almost finished hat

and perhaps a puppy

Sara Petersen
Mar 29, 2023
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I may or may not be getting a puppy on Friday. This may or may not be a terrible idea considering Momfluenced publishes in less than a month. Granted the puppy is 5 months old and already crate-trained but STILL. So that’s me. Dreaming about puppies and podcast interviews and google calendar invites and time zone mix-ups and relating way too much to this write-up of what happens to an author’s brain/life/psyche/assessment of reality when she publishes a book. Oh and grieving the most recent school shooting because we live in a place where grieving school shootings is what we do rather than stopping school shootings from happening in the first place. (Related reading).

Reading

I loved this conversation in

Jeanna Kadlec
’s newsletter,
astrology for writers
about astrology, limitations, and ghosts so much.

I always appreciate

Motherlingual
!

We associate food with memories, and memories with time, and time with childhoods, parenting, and life and that is all important and wonderful but also, heavy. Sometimes, a burger is just a burger, delicious even though it wasn’t made with love by mom or mama, has no cultural connection, but was made in minutes, by some 17-year-old kid, working a summer job, with all the time in the world.

Here’s the full piece 👇

Motherlingual
Hands of (Mother) Time
Unintentionally, I have been having a lot of what I call, “mama’s home-cooking moments” lately. Earlier this month, a new Caribbean street-food restaurant opened in our neighbourhood called Mama’s Jerk. “Mama’s Jerk BBQ Marinade Recipe was originally made by my late Nan, Mama Charlotte. She was called Mama by everyone in town…
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3 months ago · 5 likes · Motherlingual

Absolutely obsessed with

Lindy West
’s newsletter,
Butt News
. So so so funny and delightful and perfectly right on. If there’s one thing you read this week, let it be this! Here’s Lindy on (the movie), Bridget Jones’s Diary:

I truly think, and this is not hyperbole, that every woman would benefit from eating disorder treatment! Every single one! We’re fucked!

Back to the movie: the fact that the filmmakers made Renee Zellweger gain 20 pounds for this role (because in the book Bridget is lightly porky) and then we destroyed her in the media for gaining weight is a human rights violation that needs Mark Darcy’s attention. Someone should be in jail for that.

People on the internet are freaking out about an author profile.

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