Unmanageable traffic, neglected public transit, no parking downtown, roomy homes with backyards a solid 45 minutes away in traffic, untenable extended summers, you know, the dream
Forgot to mention an ever more white and homogenous population in the urban core!!!
The only way I'd ever move back to Austin is if I never had to get on I-35 again so guess I'm never moving back to Austin
oh my god I forgot about the flying cockroaches

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13 Dec
I wrote about what's actually going on when your day is filled with meeting after meeting after meeting and no one's paying attention and then you have to schedule another meeting:

annehelen.substack.com/p/too-many-mee…
When I started looking at this graph it took me awhile to realize that the big jump about 2/3 of the way into the year coincided almost perfectly when kids went back to school — people started scheduling *even more* meetings Image
To me, this gets to the heart of constant-meeting-culture: scheduling meetings feels like a way to assuage concerns about productivity (and precarity); in practice, more meetings almost always just makes you feel less productive, more like shit
Read 5 tweets
4 Dec
I really really really really love movie theaters
I loved my old picture palace in Lewiston, Idaho growing up, I loved the cinder block multiplex with 4 screens that's now a doggy daycare, I love shiny new mall 20-plexes with 17 escalators and I really love tiny indie houses figuring out how to make it work
I love my weird rituals (no one touches the popcorn until the credits roll), I love previews, I love the weird AMC quasi-commercials, I love shushing the person behind me, I especially love going to the movies by myself
Read 4 tweets
3 Dec
Overwhelming email feedback that I somehow left the Mom labor of Elf on the Shelf out of this piece; what can I say, I'm an Old Millennial without Kids, I don't know any Elves on any Shelves

annehelen.substack.com/p/the-mom-does…
Why do we need the Elf; I grew up just fine without the Elf
This is.....so much work
Read 4 tweets
3 Dec
Wrote about the Vacation Mom, the Cruise Director, Holiday Fucking Magic and the New Bourgeois Holiday Card.

annehelen.substack.com/p/the-mom-does…
Oh my god how did I forget to reference this class, thank you @katypearce:

theonion.com/mom-spends-bea…
Fascinated by how many women have now told me that they have holiday cards that they made from previous years and just....kept in a drawer b/c they lost steam
Read 6 tweets
26 Nov
The federal govt has refused to act & 26 million don't have enough to eat. I spent the week talking to ad hoc orgs & mutual aid groups filling in the ever-widening gaps in the social safety net. They are *remarkable* & I hope you'll share their stories:

msnbc.com/opinion/millio…
In South Philly, Syona Arora helped launch 2 community fridges:

“Every day, the fridge empties out. Every day, it fills back up again. We hold ourselves to a high standard with what goes in the fridge, & we have a high level of respect for each other"

instagram.com/phlcommunityfr…
In W Montana, Flathead Rez Community Action is serving 100+ families a week from all over:

“We don’t ask tribal affiliation. I’d say more than half of the families we serve aren’t tribal. We also don’t ask for income verification."

ucc-jic.com/wp-content/upl…
Read 13 tweets
25 Nov
"Women experience this mandate to feed others at the same time that they absorb the message that women are more valued, & valuable, when they are beautiful, especially when they are also thin"

I talked to @EmilyContois about gender, power, Thanksgiving:

annehelen.substack.com/p/food-work
@EmilyContois "The work of idealized womanhood lies at this complex intersection of feeding others out of love, while denying our own appetites to feed ourselves so we’ll be thin and considered lovable."

annehelen.substack.com/p/food-work
When I first happened on some really troubling Intermittent Fasting threads on FB I wanted to write about it then thought nope gonna talk to someone who’s actually thought through this stuff
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