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9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +5 points

I've also gotten a few Toast Post postcards which are lovely but do not include return addresses. Was the point of the Toast Post to just send one card/note to say hello? Or start an exchange?

9 years ago @ The Toast - Faithfully LGBT: An In... · 1 reply · +5 points

And I meant to say in my comment above- thank you, thank you, thank you for this important conversation.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Faithfully LGBT: An In... · 0 replies · +4 points

If looking for additional voices for this conversation, can I suggest a friend of mine and the important work he's doing with Parity in NYC? http://parity.nyc/our-mission/

From their mission statement:
Parity is a faith-based LGBTQ-focused organization based in NYC, that creates open and nurturing spaces– physically and spiritually to:
-Support emerging LGBTQ pastors (the forerunners of historical policy change) as they live into their callings.
-Empower LGBTQ and allied young people to integrate their spiritual, gender and sexual identities through a range of programs.
-Proclaim this message of reconciliation through the Not So Churchy worshipping community.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Things I Would Do If A... · 0 replies · +11 points

I bought a book in Oxford, MS once and took it to a restaurant and opened it and a huge cockroach crawled out and into my soup. The south and their cockroaches. The. Worst.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Things I Would Do If A... · 0 replies · +6 points

Thanks for the nightmares! ;)

9 years ago @ The Toast - Things I Would Do If A... · 0 replies · +9 points

I like that this became an OMG BUGS! thread because once I put on a tshirt from a clothesline and something was itching my left shoulder, near my neck (yknow the front part of the shoulder) so I flipped the collar inside out to look and THERE WAS A HUGE COCKROACH in my shirt.

I was never the same.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +7 points

I visited a university once who had an "Office of Financial Responsibility."

Wouldn't a mandatory visit there each semester (especially those 18 year olds signing off on $30,000 worth of school loans) be ideal?

9 years ago @ The Toast - That "More Than Brains... · 6 replies · +134 points

Amen to all of this.

Also, if a "degree is a degree" then go to your local community college and get one for A FRACTION of the cost of whatever you would've paid these money launderers. They too have flexible course hours and a little something called financial aid.

And yes Mallory is so right about BOOTSTRAPPING. This makes my blood boil. That white woman in the library? Glad she could afford child care or whatever the hell she needed for a second of peace to "focus" on her "studies" and rudeness. Also the man boxing? The one who was shot? Was this supposed to imply he was a veteran? Because man needs to use those benefits at an actual accredited institution.

And please tell me it's not actually Regina Spektor- just some poor almost-Regina manufactured in a creepy doll factory?

10 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +6 points

I also really loved this book- it was my first "pleasure" read post-grad school and although it's long, the intertwining narratives and vignette-chapter styles really make it easy to read. I think I read it in two days. Lush imagery and painterly writing- and I'm not that into WWII reads, but I loved this one. Go forth and enjoy!

10 years ago @ The Toast - The Convert Series: Li... · 0 replies · +4 points

According to some of my grandmother's journals (the woman knew everyone's business in the ward) everyone knew everything about people's financial situations and often came together to provide windfalls of cash as needed (not without judgement or detailed examination of how that funding was used.) That story of "pay your tithing, get riches" was definitely reiterated time and time again.

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