This Is the Rules

May 25

“ If you bite on everything they throw at you, they will grind you down. You have to ignore a certain amount of stuff. The thing I keep saying to them lately is: “I have to love you, and I have the right to ignore you.” When my kids ask what I want for my birthday or Christmas or whatever, I use the same answer my father did: “Peace and quiet.” That was never a satisfactory answer to me as a kid — I wanted an answer like “A pipe.” But now I see the wisdom of it: All I want is you at your best — you making this an easier home to live in, you thinking of others. Bill Murray in Esquire

(Source: esquire.com)

May 17

“ Of course I’m tired. I’m an adult; we’re all tired. LaDawn (via atsween)

May 3

outofprintclothing:

Burning Through Pages

April 29

“ Help stop the Little League arms race. Kids’ sports are becoming ridiculously structured and competitive. What happened to playing baseball because it’s fun? We are systematically creating races out of things that ought to be a journey. We know that success isn’t about simply running faster than everyone else in some predetermined direction. Yet the message we are sending from birth is that if you don’t make the traveling soccer team or get into the “right” school, then you will somehow finish life with fewer points than everyone else. That’s not right. You’ll never read the following obituary: “Bob Smith died yesterday at the age of 74. He finished life in 186th place. WSJ

(Source: The Wall Street Journal)

April 27

Listen to the MUSTN’T’S

luckyshirt:

Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child

Listen to the DON’TS

Listen to the SHOULDN’TS

The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS

Listen to the NEVER HAVES

Then listen close to me—

Anything can happen, child,

ANYTHING can be.

-Shel Silverstein

April 19

newsweek:

Our first major: speech communication. What’s yours? [via]

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vegkat:

Soccer practice. And by “soccer practice” I mean “kids picking dandelions and blowing the fluffy seeds” and “bugs flying into my bra”.

April 2

“ Our love is the organic NERF that grows in the spots where her abject mania collides with my stupidity and emotional retardation. Rob Delaney

(Source: vice.com)

March 26

“ Dacre once told an interviewer that he didn’t think a newspaper could have an editor who wasn’t married with children, because he “wouldn’t understand the human condition. How the Daily Mail Conquered England : The New Yorker (via pegobry)

(via pegobry)

March 24

The Real Katie West: an expression of fear triggered by a life lived

therealkatiewest:

i want to lean in close to my little baby niece and tell her she can be anyone she wants to be. she doesn’t even have to be anybody, if she thinks that’s what’s best for her.

i want to tell her that she can wear anything she wants and say anything she wants and i’ll hold the boys at bay for her….