One thing that caught my eye this week

Casting My Vote at Thoughtful Pop was featuring on Five Star Friday last week, so there’s a good chance you’ve already read it. I love what he says and how he says it so much, though, that I wanted to share it here anyway.

Regardless of which side wins, the wars will continue, the bankers will profit, the corporations will grow and the people will be left behind. … But there is at least one big difference that I can see. One side has made it very clear that a vote for them is a vote against women. That side is standing proudly and proclaiming women’s bodies are not entirely their own and something to be legislated against. … Theirs is not a world to which I would choose to subject my daughters.

Regular reads

• I’ve been reading Jenn Mattern’s Breed ’em and Weep for a billion years. Jenn is a powerful writer who has had a vicious last few years, emotionally and financially. If I were in charge of all the things, she’d be a fabulously wealthy author. Because she writes like this:
  

  For her part, she loved you without worrying whether you would die and leave her, or whether she would die and leave you. She understood that this dying thing and this living thing are nothing to take personally. She understood that the only way to manage in this life, truly, is to make an afterschool snack for a lovesick granddaughter, and leave the rest to sort itself out.

  I’m in charge of hardly any of the things, sadly, so I’ll just have to keeping hoping good things for Jenn.

• Natalie Dee writes a web comic, and she gets me. She really, really gets me.
  

• Heidi at 101 Cookbooks makes lots of things I’m pretty sure I’ll never make, like rose petal granola and something called black sesame otsu. She takes gorgeous pictures of the food, though, and the way she writes makes me want to hang out in her kitchen.