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2013-07-02T07:30:14-04:00

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The ‘Best’ Healthcare In The World (Or, “At Those Prices, It Should Be!”)

Last updated on: July 2, 2013 at 7:30 am By Rachel Marie Stone

A number of folks have pointed me to this article in the New York Times: “American Way of Birth, Costliest in the World.” If you’re the kind of person who scrolls through the comments section–not an activity I recommend!–you’ll see that I commented twice in response to the clever little embedded questions in the article. Having given birth once in the US and once in the UK, I had some things to say. In the case of this article, the... Read more

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2013-07-01T08:30:02-04:00

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What Anxiety Feels Like (For Me, and, Maybe, For You. With Cartoons.)

Last updated on: July 1, 2013 at 8:30 am By Rachel Marie Stone

I often think that anxiety probably has some helpful prehistoric function, like sensing that a large, hungry carnivore is on the prowl and being the one to let the rest of the group know. But in the absence of large, hungry carnivores (or other clearly perilous situations) anxiety sometimes feels as useful as the appendix, though it flares up even more often, and can’t be easily removed. For me, anxiety can run in circles, like a sad, neurotic dog in... Read more

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2013-06-28T08:01:45-04:00

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Friday Cat

Last updated on: June 28, 2013 at 8:01 am By Rachel Marie Stone

Kitties and doggies being friends in the shade together. This makes me smile. Read more

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2013-06-27T08:00:57-04:00

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The Peace of Wild Things (with photos of animals seen on a recent safari)

Last updated on: June 27, 2013 at 8:00 am By Rachel Marie Stone

For me, there is nothing quite like being outdoors, and, especially, seeing wild creatures, as an antidote to anxiety. I don’t think there is anything particularly unusual or strange in that. God’s strangely comforting words to Job involved proclaiming himself as involved and caring in the lives of the wildest and remotest creatures, Psalm 104 celebrates God as the one who knows the comings and goings of animals, and feeds them, and Jesus points his hearers’ attention to the birds... Read more

2013-06-26T08:05:35-04:00

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How NOT To Help Someone Who Is Hurting (comic strips included!)

Last updated on: June 26, 2013 at 8:05 am By Rachel Marie Stone

We all have times like this, don’t we? And they are never easy. I happen to have a strong tendency (whether owing to my genes, my God-given personality and inclination, or who knows what) toward anxiety, much, MUCH more of it than is helpful and much more than I care to admit. Because it can be really hard to admit that you are struggling with something like anxiety. Unfortunately, sometimes when you gather your courage and go ahead and tell... Read more

2013-06-25T08:30:22-04:00

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Is That Bikini Video–and the ‘modesty’ movement–really about nostalgia?

Last updated on: June 25, 2013 at 8:30 am By Rachel Marie Stone

Nostalgia is big right now. From Michael Pollan’s new panegyric on “traditional” food preparation, Cooked, to ModCloth.com, all things Mad Men (or previous) seem to be ‘in,’ down to hula hoops, bright red lipstick, ‘vintage’-style, well, everything, and grave suspicion of some of the best that modern science has had to offer, like vaccines and antibiotics. While I love a beautiful mid-century style (dress, phone, desk) as much as the next twenty- or thirty-something, I really don’t love other aspects... Read more

2013-06-24T07:47:06-04:00

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Vegan? Vegetarian? Flexitarian? Compassionate Carnivory?

Last updated on: June 24, 2013 at 7:47 am By Rachel Marie Stone

Recently I came across this quotation from the novelist and essayist (and, I believe, genius) Marilynne Robinson, given in a 2008 interview with the Paris Review: “I’m generally a vegetarian of the ovo-lacto type, minus the ovo, yet I’m keenly aware of the fact that Hitler was a vegetarian. When he visited Mussolini in Italy he rejected the state dinner. He didn’t drink or smoke. I hold him up as an example of how an aversion virtue can be a... Read more

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2013-06-21T09:30:13-04:00

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Friday Cat

Last updated on: June 21, 2013 at 9:30 am By Rachel Marie Stone

I think there are 13 cats. And I think this photo is simply incredible {Have a great weekend.} Read more

2013-06-20T08:30:14-04:00

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No Bitterness Or Guilt-Tripping (A Review of Eat With Joy + a Reading List)

Last updated on: June 20, 2013 at 8:30 am By Rachel Marie Stone

I’d like to point you to this lovely review of my book, Eat With Joy, by blogger Cara Strickland. Here’s a taste: “This book is layered and diverse […] and the scope was part of why I was so excited to read it. But Rachel is more than her topics, and she approaches all of them with care. She writes about eating disorders with grace and compassion (convincing me that we all have them in one way or another). She... Read more

2013-06-19T09:59:45-04:00

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We Can Be Critical and Christian and Female All At The Same Time

Last updated on: June 19, 2013 at 9:59 am By Rachel Marie Stone

I love reviewing books. I remember the first time I ever reviewed a book, and I was thrilled and happy beyond measure. Because when you review books, publishers send you review copies! And for someone like me, free books are almost always an unqualified GOOD. I will allow as how it is sometimes fun to skewer a book, to make like the movie critics at the New Yorker magazine and just slam bad writing and sloppy thinking. That can definitely... Read more

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