Mary Richards and Me
I know I haven’t posted in a couple weeks (though I’ve thought about it more than once) and, as a result, this will be a rather loooong post (sorry). I didn’t post the first week because my life was just too boring and my mind simultaneously too overwhelmed such that I couldn’t think of anything [...]
Today is Day 3 of Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings and if she hasn’t started to sweat yet, I imagine she will today. Judicial experts and pro-life advocates have ramped up their opposition this week and built a strong and compelling case against Elena Kagan becoming the US Supreme Court justice to replace Stevens. Though she [...]
I’ve always appreciated the realistic attitude that the author of Ecclesiastes has towards life and death. He doesn’t see things through rose-colored glasses and he doesn’t offer a glossy depiction of what life is like. He’s just honest–even when the truth is definitely not what you want to hear. “For in much wisdom is much [...]
Not to take the heat off Obama’s Kagan nomination but to go back to happier things: my mom just posted a bunch of awesome new photos from our trip to Williamsburg (and their time in DC) on her photography blog. They are absolutely incredible so make sure you check them out!
Today, at 9am CST/10am EST, President Obama announced his choice of yet another activist SCOTUS nominee (to fill retiring Justice Stevens’ spot) with an ardently pro-abortion agenda rather than a judicial philosophy rooted in our constitution. Solicitor General Elena Kagan does not intend to faithfully apply and interpret the law, as would be her constitutional [...]
Last August, after spending a summer in Washington, DC, I was very ready to leave and return home for a variety of complicated reasons. I met Anne for an early breakfast at Le Pain Quotidien in Georgetown to say goodbye and she could tell that I was ready to go. My internship was over, my [...]
My long-anticipated evening finally came and went and I’m still reeling from the impact. Last night, Anne and I went with a few others to The Falls Church in Falls Church, VA to see Sara Groves perform in concert as part of the ArtMusicJustice tour with Charlie Peacock and Jars of Clay. Unfortunately, JOC didn’t [...]
Other things that kept me busy the past couple weeks were three fun and exciting visits from friends and family! First, Brianne and Liane, two dear college girlfriends since freshman year, arrived on Sunday, March 21 and stayed at my apartment until Thursday morning. Unfortunately I still had to work during the day, …
Health care wasn’t the only thing that kept me from writing in my blog over the past two weeks. I was also given a writing assignment kind of at the last minute a few days before the vote and with a deadline of Monday morning (!). So I ended up spending the little free time [...]
In the world of Sally Elizabeth Forsythe, silence in some form or another usually means that crazybusyness has taken over my life. And, for the past two weeks, that has been exactly the case. First, it was the health care vote on Sunday, March 21, everything leading up to it, and its aftermath, all of [...]