The real truth is, I’ve just eaten far more cookies than I need and I’m sitting on the couch watching what is commonly known as the BEST episode of The Office EVER: Dinner Party – Season 4, Episode 9. It’s some of the best television there is and ever was, proving to be just the right distraction for the ridiculous, shithole of a news week we’ve had. We get to use that word freely now. We can just bandy it about carelessly and thoughtlessly. If anyone calls you on it, just lie. It works all the time.
Below you’ll find some less intolerable news because despite the mess we’re in right now, most of us are still doing, making, persevering, and fighting for what is true, just, beautiful, and kind.
Above: The Marigny Opera House, New Orleans.
Deep breath and here we are:
โข Geraldine DeRuiter was brave enough to make Mario Batali’s apology Pizza Cinnamon Rolls and we owe her a great thanks.
โข My absolute favorite radio interviewer is Fresh Air’s Terry Gross. She’s as curious and thoughtful as we need a question-asker to be. Here, the tables have turned: In Conversation with Terry Gross. One of my very favorite Terry Gross interviews is with Maurice Sendak. Deep. Get into it.
โข The heart of the matter: Why Am I So Lazy?
โข Facebook is changing our world again: The Comment Is The New Share.
โข Trendy: How Death Got Cool. Ok so we’re training mushrooms now.
โข I tried to get Tron into this video of the World’s Smallest Wild Cat, he pretended not to be into it but I know he was. Ps. Torn is my GIANT orange cat, if you didn’t know.
โข Why Nursing Is a Job of the Future For Men. I really appreciated Justin Kuunifaa’s approach. Caregiver. Generous with dignified care.
Also it’s pretty *eyeroll* that these dudes are like *shrug emoji* ‘everyone mistakes me for a doctor’. Ok… sirs. You’re getting paid more than your female counterparts please stop with the crocodile tears about gender narratives and how revolutionary you feel taking care of another human.
โข Seems urgent: we’re exercising our faces now.
โข We’re so weird about time and mortality: You’re Most Likely To Do Something Extreme Right Before You Turn 30… or 40, or 50. Think of it this way: our whole life is a series of “when” decisions.
โข Toasted Oat and Coconut Muesli for something hearty to eat all week long. Again…. ‘when’ decisions.
โข This week at The Bakehouse we had a pasta making workshop making this simple fresh pasta recipe from The Kitchn! We’ve got more Spring classes hitting the schedule soon! Follow @thebakehousenola to stay up to date! (It really is so fun!)
โข Made these BEAUTIES this week: Overnight Beignets with Strawberry Powdered Sugar. A combination from Over Easy and A Cozy Kitchen.
โข My friend Maggie is so generous with herself and her journey very inspiring: What I Eat.
I think you’re great! Enjoy your day.
xo Joy
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Thank you SO much for the link to the DeRuiter post; that was perfect. When I saw his “apology” with recipe my eyes rolled so far back I think I saw my brainstem.
I’m always so glad to read your posts and so grateful that you are as disgusted by recent events as I am. AND, you’re one heck of a baker too!!! Keep up the good work!
Thank you for including the article about laziness! I cannot believe how much it sounds like me — I feel like the only explanation for that is that I must have unknowingly written the letter (maybe I’m a sleep-writer??? Is that a thing???).
I love your Sunday posts — they keep me going when I read them on Mondays :)
Strawberry powdered sugar. I don’t even know what to say about it. That is the most amazing sounding thing I think I’ve ever heard.
Eek! My favorite Terry Gross interview is with Maurice Sendak, too!! It’s a real tear-jerker. <3
I have been a nurse for 37+ years (& hope to be for many more). I am honored to be in this profession & do not look at my peers for their gender. They are my support no matter male or female.I welcome anyone who has the guts to do what we do, and the compassion that is needed to make the experience as good as it can be for our patients. This is not about being a male or female, it is about our patients. Our work is very challenging both physically & mentally…we hold the lives of someone you love in our hands…that is really all that matters.
Love waking up to this on Sundays!
Dear Joy! You bring much-needed joy and humor to my week first-thing Sunday mornings. Thank you for curating such an interesting aray of articles that keep me grounded and inspired and hopeful all at once. Hugs to you from the frozen tundra (aka MN). XO
Thank you, Joy, for your humor, balance, and sharing really great stories you find. Today I found 3 that I read in detail and, of course, the internet being the inter-net, serendipitously found two others along the way. These Sunday posts are always worthwhile and lead me down new ways of thinking and/or thoughtful ways of viewing our world.
The Maurice Sendak interviews with Terry Gross are A-mazing. I think there are three total over the years.. He rarely gave interviews but he loved Terry so did them even though he was elderly and not feeling well. His last one brought me to tears; it was so moving and wise. Thank you for bringing this to our attention again.
Love this week’s list (as always) and congratulations on ten wonderful years!!!i
I so agree! Hearing Maurice Sendak speak and share his wisdom is amazing. ??
I have been reading these posts since the beginning and I just want to say Thank You! I look forward to this post every Sunday and I always find something insightful in your links. Keep ’em coming!
Just to let you know that you have readers from the stranges places e.g. Denmark! Yes, the small country with ‘hygge’ and a real queen and cold and dreary weather! And I’m looking forward to your weekly updates. All week! Thanks a lot.
Thank you again Joy for such an on point perspective! I need to be completely distracted as each week something more unbelievable happens. It should not be a surprise, but I still find it all so upsetting. You made me chuckle cause not sure what else to do as Laurie said above. Look forward to Let it Be Sunday!
That episode is amazing, my #2…with #1 being The Injury (burnt foot on a foreman grill). โThe gas station in Carbondale didnโt have fresh yams.โ
Ahh, love, love, love your first paragraph this week! Totally true, sad and at the same time when you posted it I laughed. Guess I’m not sure what else to do!
First belly laugh today, thank you!
โThat one night, you made everything alright!โ Oh, Hunter. Happy Sunday, Joy!
I thought only I felt like that was an entirely inappropriate apology. I even told my husband the whole story about Batali, and without my opinion, I asked him to read the e-mail and tell me what he thinks.
His reaction was:
What an asshole! All the ladies will tear him apart after such apology.
And this is why I married him ???.
Thank you Geraldine DeRuiter for such an open post and thank you Joy for mentioning it!
Loved the “Why am I so lazy?” post. We all have one of those days at some point.
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I’m a new nursing student, and have found it interesting to observe my male colleagues and male professors. Interestingly, I’ve noticed that there are significantly more men in admin and faculty positions at my school, which doesn’t seem to properly reflect the dynamic of nursing overall. Hmm why do we think that is? When my school speaks of our school’s rate of diversity, they are not only speaking about race or socioeconomic status, but of men. White men are considered diverse! Seriously?
At our orientation we had a panel of experienced nurses, and somebody asked the man what it was like to be a man in nursing. As much as I want to be sensitive to his feelings, just like those of my patients, I also wanted to roll my eyes. We are asking a man what it’s like to feel like a minority? They are never treated like that even in nursing! However, he said that “As men, we need to understand something. That women don’t NEED us. They’ve been so successful at this career, at treating patients, and they don’t at all need us here. So I think we need to be humble and understanding of that.” And that’s really nice. Let’s hope they continue to be humbled when they make more than us doing the same job and with less experience and because they add “diversity.”
Ah so interesting! That man is spot on and one of the good ones! Thank you for sharing this, Sarah!
I look forward to your Sunday links every week!
Great line up again this week Joy! Love waking up to this on Sundays!
Great links this week!
It is not always easy for men in nursing, I do have to say that. My husband is a nurse. Heโs gotten scoffed at for it by hospital visitors, patients heโs taken care of, and even other staff members. Heโs been called a โmurseโ even though heโs asked people not to, heโs just a nurse, like anyone else. And heโs not been taken seriously by doctors (male and female) because he is a man and a nurse. Itโs not the same as being a woman and experiencing life as a woman daily, certainly, but he chose to be a nurse because thatโs where he wanted to be, not because of any economic benefit or because he could pass for a doctor (and at his hospital at least, all nurses wear a large badge that identifies them as such). So sometimes men in nursing can encounter resistance just a woman in a male dominant field can too.
I appreciate your perspective Marie. Thank you for it!
In our culture & language, nurse has become a female word. Surely a new non-gender word could be substituted to encompass both male & female to eliminate ambiguity.
I love these “Let it be Sunday” newsletters. I really look forward to them. I especially loved the article about Mario’s half-as*ed recipe and Maggie Battista’s post on what she eats. Thanks for all the thoughtfulness you put into these Sunday communications for us. :)
As a female doctor, I get called “nurse” most days. When I discussed this with male colleagues, I was in no way surprised to learn that not a single one of them had ever, on even a single occasion, been mistaken for a nurse. I have a huge amount of respect for the work that the nurses do and being called a nurse is in no way insulting to me, but the assumption that I must be one because I’m a woman is frustrating. However, there are certainly assumptions made about nurses too. Many people who assume I am a nurse are utterly mortified when they realise that I’m a doctor and apologise profusely. In particular, they are often very apologetic when they realise that they have just been helped with toileting by a doctor (because if they ask and I’m in a position to help, I’m not going to huff and insist they get the actual nurse to help them instead). I can only think that this is because nurses are still seen as doctors’ obedient handmaids, and not as highly qualified practitioners of a different role. Meanwhile, I think they must believe my doctor mind is occupied with loftier things than wiping bottoms, when actually doctor minds are just a cesspit of bodily functions and dark humour.
From a nurse, thank you for not being above wiping bottoms, Claire!
I hope it will become true that nursing will be a job for men in the future!
With love, Rena
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I hope the time will come when there are no jobs where being male or female is in any way assumed. Humans need only apply. Hurry up world, I’m not getting any younger.
HUMANS!