Podcasts about Lansbury

We had to have a fairy tale during Romance Month, and we landed on a doozy: 1998's Ever After! You know Paul and Erika are going to be giddy over any film that features a Barrymore, a Huston, AND a Lansbury (it's true, look it up)! So, how does this Cinderella retelling age? Listen and find out!You can follow That Aged Well on Bluesky (@ThatAgedWell.bsky.social), Instagram (@ThatAgedWell), and Threads (@ThatAgedWell)!SUPPORT US ON PATREON FOR BONUS CONTENT!THAT AGED WELL MERCH!Wanna rate and review? HERE YOU GO!Hosts: Paul Caiola & Erika VillalbaProducer & Editor: Paul Caiola

Britain and France reckoned they'd secured the support of Italy, in the Stresa Front, for their efforts to contain Hitler. Britain was the first to undermine that pleasant understanding, by signing a naval agreement with Nazi Germany on its own. Even so, the British government did what it could to keep Mussolini's Italy in the Front, a position shared by Winston Churchill. He was already ringing alarm bells over Germany but, proving how difficult prediction can be, he got Italy (and indeed Japan) completely wrong. Then Mussolini showed his true colours by preparing to launch an invasion of Abyssinia, which is now Ethiopia, to extend Italy's imperial holdings in Africa. Doing so meant spitting in the face of the League of Nations, even though Italy was a member. But Mussolini could do that with impunity. The League, only as powerful as its members, and above all its great power members, Britain and France, allowed it to be, took no effective action against it. In the face of that spinelessness, Mussolini went ahead with his invasion. That had a surprising impact on the Labour Party, whose annual conference started the day after news of the Italian invasion arrived in Britain. Labour decided that it had no further patience with its declared pacifist leader, George Lansbury. He resigned and the jostling started to pick a successor. Clement Attlee, who'd been Lansbury's deputy, was given the job on a temporary basis, as Britain went into the 1935 general election. It was a huge win for the Tories but Labour also did well, winning nearly three times as many seats as in 1931. Attlee who'd led the party into that success was boosted by it. Viewed by many as poorly qualified for the job and short of personality, he saw off others who thought themselves better suited, and to the surprise of many, was confirmed as leader. Illustration: Italian officers consulting maps as they advance into Abyssinian territory. Public domain Music: Bach Partita #2c by J Bu licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License

It was a terrible time for Labour, down to just 52 MPs and having to choose a new leadership from a narrow pool from which most of the brightest lights, in the view of many but above all their own, were excluded. The Tories were on top of the world, with a clear majority. MacDonald still led the the National government, but in complete dependence on the Conservatives for his survival in office. A sharp change in direction of economic policy ended the linkage to the gold standard and introduced tariffs on imports. Both initiatives started to improve things, with growth back and with some strength. But the poor remained desperately poor. Illustration: composite of the Labour Party leader, George Lansbury, and deputy leader, Clement Attlee, chosen by default because the obvious candidates weren't available. Both photos from the National Portrait Gallery: Attlee by Walter Stoneman, 1930, NPG x163783; Lansbury by Howard Coster, 1930s, NPG Ax136093 Music: Bach Partita #2c by J Bu licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License

Running 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996, the crime drama introduced veteran actress Angela Lansbury to a new generation of viewers. 

Welcome back to Say Whats Reel! This week, your hosts Dom Cruze, ILL, and Q delve into the political thriller The Manchurian Candidate (2004).In this episode, we explore the chilling narrative, standout performances, and the film's relevance to today's sociopolitical climate. Join us as we dissect the mind-bending plot twists and the powerful performances by Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep.

On this week's film-stuffed episode, Marty and Scott pay their respects to stage and screen legend Angela Lansbury. Whodunnit, we ask? And by "it" we mean "bowled us over and won our hearts." And the answer is... well, Lansbury. I maybe set that up wrong. But join us!Gaslight (1944, Dir. George Cukor)Mutiny (1952, Dir. Edward Dmytryk)The Manchurian Candidate  (1962, Dir. John FrankenheimerGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022, Dir. Rian Johnson)Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.Visit us at slackandslashpod.comEmail us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Chapter 1 What's No Bad Kids Book by Janet Lansbury"No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline without Shame" is a parenting book written by Janet Lansbury. It provides guidance on how to approach toddler discipline in a respectful and understanding manner. The book encourages parents to view their child's behavior through a different lens, promoting effective communication and setting appropriate boundaries. It emphasizes the importance of validating a child's emotions and shows how to address challenging behaviors without resorting to shame, punishment, or bribes. The book also offers practical strategies and techniques to help parents navigate the various stages of toddlerhood and build a strong bond with their child.Chapter 2 Is No Bad Kids Book A Good BookThe book "No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame" by Janet Lansbury has been well-received by parents and caregivers alike. Lansbury is known for her respectful and gentle approach to discipline, and her book offers practical strategies for dealing with toddler behavior without resorting to punishment or shaming.Many readers find the book to be a valuable resource, as it provides insights into understanding the developmental stages and needs of toddlers. It offers guidance on setting limits, fostering independence, and building a strong parent-child connection based on empathy and respect.However, like with any parenting book, the usefulness can vary depending on individual parenting styles and the unique needs of the child. It is important to keep in mind that not all strategies may work for every child, and it is ultimately up to parents to apply the suggestions in a way that suits their own family dynamics.If you are seeking a gentle and respectful approach to toddler discipline, "No Bad Kids" by Janet Lansbury is generally considered to be a good book worth considering.Chapter 3 No Bad Kids Book by Janet Lansbury Summary"No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame" is a book written by Janet Lansbury that provides guidance and strategies for parents and caregivers on how to handle challenging behavior in toddlers. Lansbury's approach is based on the RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) philosophy, which emphasizes respectful and empathetic communication with children. The book is divided into several chapters, each addressing different aspects of toddler discipline.In the book, Lansbury emphasizes the importance of setting limits and boundaries in a firm but respectful manner. She explains how to avoid power struggles with toddlers by offering choices and using problem-solving techniques. Lansbury also emphasizes the need to acknowledge and validate a child's emotions, even in the midst of tantrums or challenging behavior.Lansbury provides practical examples and scripts to help parents navigate difficult situations and respond effectively to their child's behavior. She encourages parents to remain calm and grounded even in challenging moments, as their own emotions can impact how they respond to their child.The book also addresses common discipline issues such as hitting, biting, and refusing to cooperate. Lansbury offers strategies for handling these behaviors in a gentle yet effective way. She emphasizes the importance of consistency in discipline and encourages parents to focus on teaching children appropriate behavior rather than punishing them for their mistakes.Overall, "No Bad Kids" provides parents with a helpful guide on how to discipline their toddlers in a respectful and loving manner. Lansbury emphasizes the importance of empathetic communication and maintaining a positive relationship with their child. Chapter 4 No Bad Kids Book Author

THE FILTHY AWAY SHIRT IS AVAILABLE NOW AT - HTTP://WWW.FILTHYATFIVE.COM One of the most talked about players over the years on FILTHY FELLAS has been former ARSENAL youngster HENRI LANSBURY. A good friend of STEVO, the Enfield born midfielder had an eventful career at WATFORD, NORWICH, WEST HAM, NOTTINGHAM FOREST, ASTON VILLA, LUTON TOWN and BRISTOL CITY, he beat cancer, played across the youth level at ENGLAND, affected the football industry with his new venture and taught JACK GREALISH how to party (known fact!). HENRI LANSBURY joins his boy STEVO, as well as SPECS, PK HUMBLE, JORDY, MILES, POET and TEGO for a huge FILTHY @ FIVE.

Alan crumbles when trying to pronounce Keanu Reeves' name, the boys discuss celebrity crushes, former Villa player Henri Lansbury reveals his new passion and Alan reprimands Gabby for exiting the Debrief early last week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Angela Lansbury is the star of this week's radio noir. This gothic story about a rising starlet and her actor husband who is in the twilight of his career resembles "A Star Is Born", but with a dark twist. This is a rare radio appearance by Lansbury in the first phase of her career, where she often played villains like Sibyl Vane from "The Picture of Doiron Gray," and Eleanor Shaw Iselin from "The Manchurian Candidate." Visit our website: https://goodolddaysofradio.com/ Subscribe to our Facebook Group for news, discussions, and the latest podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/881779245938297 If you don't do Facebook, we're also on Gab: https://gab.com/OldRadio  Our theme music is "Why Am I So Romantic?" from Animal Crackers: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KHJKAKS/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_MK8MVCY4DVBAM8ZK39WD

On the Fozcast this week we have former Premier League player and a Luton Championship play off winner, Henri Lansbury! Henri was youth superstar at the mighty Arsenal. Henri had multiple loan moves, including promotions to the Premier League with Norwich in 2010/11 AND West Ham in the 2011/12 season. Lansbury eventually left Arsenal in 2012 when he signed for Nottingham Forest, which to refers to as his “second home”. Henri discovered a surprising new passion in grass cutting and managing lawns which he tells us all about. We also talked about… - The time Arsene Wenger went mad after Henri clattered Thierry Henry in training - The yoga pro within the England camp - The art of being a promotion specialist  - Just how much injuries take their toll on your body We hope you enjoy the podcast! #upthefozcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's July 4th and Front Row Classics is taking a not-so-nice look at American government & politics. 1962's The Manchurian Candidate was an oddity when it was released. Yet, the ensuing decades have proven it to be eerily relevant and timeless. Ryan Lootens and Steve Sykes join Brandon to break down the political thriller. The hosts cover the unforgettable performances of Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Angela Lansbury. Lansbury's performance remains of the most menacing and diabolical portrayals in film history. We also cover topics such as the film's expert direction by John Frankenheimer, the many theories regarding Janet Leigh's character and the 2004 remake.

In this episode, Bryan and Kristen share examples of people that began with a passion and became very successful because they started treating their passion as if it were a job that had to get done. Life Level 1 is a general topic podcast about life from the humorous perspective of Bryan and his broad, Kristen. Bryan has a background in video game development and Kristen has a background in life. The thoughts and opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the individual contributors alone and are not a reflection of their employers.

TJ and Bridget talk about Lansbury's performance and how the movie fit into her wider career. They also lament they "just don't make 'em like they used to."

Tove AsterdahlShow NotesOn today's episode, we visit Sweden and talk to the author Tove Asterdahl about her book “You WillNever Be Found” which was published by Harper.In the small mining town of Malmberget, north of the Arctic Circle, residents and their houses are beingrelocated. As the mine that built the town slowly swallows it street by street, building by building, thememories of the community have collapsed into the huge pit they call “the hole.” Only a few stubbornsouls cling to their homes, refusing to leave. When two workers making their final preparations hear asound coming from a basement, they break a cellar window and find a terrified man curled up in acorner.In Ådalen, 700 kilometers away, police officer Eira Sjödin is investigating the disappearance of a manreported missing by his ex-wife. Eira and her colleagues search his apartment, contact his friends andrelatives, and query local hospitals, but the man has vanished without a trace.Eira knows the pain of loss—she mourns for her mother, whose mind has been stolen by dementia. Toescape her loneliness and her memories, Eira loses herself in a casual affair. But she's whollyunprepared when her feelings deepen for GG, who is twenty years her senior–and her boss.When the diligent GG doesn't show up for work two days in a row, Eira and her colleagues quicklyrealize that something is wrong—their boss has gone missing. In the dramatic second installment of theHigh Coast Series, Eira Sjödin finds herself at the mercy of an elusive perpetrator—and of a love shecan no longer deny.TRIVIALast week's question was:We all know and love Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher is the series Murder She Wrote. Her agent atthe time advised her to accept a role in a sitcom instead of this series but she (wisely) chose thisinstead. Who is the other actress producers had chosen for the part?a. Bea Arthurb. Victoria Principalc. Jean Stapletond. Goldie HawnThe answer is c. Jean Stapelton. In 1983, Lansbury was offered two main television roles, one in asitcom and the other in a detective drama series, Murder, She Wrote. As she was unable to do both, heragents advised her to accept the former, although Lansbury chose the latter. Her decision was based onthe appeal of the series' central character, Jessica Fletcher, a retired school teacher from the fictionaltown of Cabot Cove, Maine. As portrayed by Lansbury, Fletcher was a successful detective novelist whoalso solved murders encountered during her travels. Lansbury described the character as "an AmericanMiss Marple".Murder, She Wrote had been created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson, and William Link, who hadearlier had success with Columbo, and the role of Fletcher had been first offered to Jean Stapleton, whohad declined itThis week's question is:Which mystery author also writes under the pen name of Tom Johanson?a. Steig Larsonb. Jo Nesboc. Peter Hoegd. Gunnar StaalesenTune in next week for the answer

Pony and Plague interview our man Lansbury, former Site-Q at The Coop. Lansbury shares his journey including how he uses humor to help us all not take ourselves to seriously. We also talk about faith and remaining open to all men. Lansbury shares how he finds joy in learning about other guys passions. We also talk about his upcoming performance at the JCC of Matilda the Musical as well as his recent book, Luftballons (Check this out! https://a.co/d/2rsnlif). He issues a call to action that we should all be exploring the arts and things that push us out of our comfort zone to prevent becoming stale as we age. We're all better because of this HIM and we're grateful for his leadership! Give it a listen

The Brown Dog Affair was a series of demonstrations and riots surrounding a statue that had been erected in the Battersea area of London, commemorating dogs who had been killed due to vivisection. Research: "Ethical Treatment of Animals." The Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology, edited by Jacqueline L. Longe, 3rd ed., vol. 1, Gale, 2016, pp. 376-380. Gale In Context: Science, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3631000262/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=c1943190. Accessed 2 Mar. 2023. "How the cruel death of a little stray dog led to riots in 1900s Britain; Novelist campaigns for statue of terrier experimented on by scientists to regain its place in a London park." Guardian [London, England], 12 Sept. 2021, p. NA. Gale OneFile: Business, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A676433834/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=87481e5c. Accessed 1 Mar. 2023. "London by numbers: The brown dog riots; Source: `The Brown Dog Affair' by Peter Mason, Two Sevens Publishing." Independent on Sunday [London, England], 26 Oct. 2003, p. 7. Gale In Context: Global Issues, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A109233128/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=bf321fb5. Accessed 1 Mar. 2023. "Students looked as its throat was cut. Then it was taken away to be killed: But the brown dog couldn't rest in peace. Barry Hugill recalls the first animal rights riots." Observer [London, England], 30 Mar. 1997, p. 18. Gale OneFile: Business, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A76406108/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=3162fdcd. Accessed 1 Mar. 2023. “Final report of the Royal Commission on Vivisection.” London. His Majesty's Stationery Office. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112089397381 Bates, A.W.H. “Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain: A Social History.” Te Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. 2017. Bates, A.W.H. “Boycotted Hospital: The National Anti-Vivisection Hospital, London, 1903–1935.” Journal of Animal Ethics 6 (2): 177–187. 2016. Boston, Richard. "The Brown Dog Affair." New Statesman, vol. 126, no. 4339, 20 June 1997, p. 48. Gale OneFile: Business, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A20534445/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=dc5e8d6f. Accessed 1 Mar. 2023. Cruelty to Animals Act. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1876/77/pdfs/ukpga_18760077_en.pdf Effron, Jack Edward. “The battle of the vivisected dog.” Hekoten International: A Journal of Medical Humanities. Volume 10, Issue 4– Fall 2018. https://hekint.org/2018/03/21/battle-vivisected-dog/ Ford, Edward K. (1908) The Brown Dog and His Memorial (London: Euston Grove Press), 56 pages. 2013 complete facsimile of 1908 pamphlet. https://profjoecain.net/eyewitness-brown-dog-affair-edward-ford/ Galloway, John. “Dogged by Controversy.” Nature. Vol. 394. August 1998. Galmark, Lisa. “Women antivivisectionists - the story of Lizzy Lind af Hageby and Leisa Schartau.” Animal Issues, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2000. Kean, Hilda. “An Exploration of the Sculptures of Greyfriars Bobby, Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Brown Dog, Battersea, South London, England.” Society & Animals 11:4. 2003. Lansbury, Coral. “The Old Brown Dog: Women, Workers and Vivisection in Edwardian England.” The University of Wisconsin Press. Nina. “The Brown Dog Affair (1903 - 1910).” The Medicine Chest. University of Cape Town. https://ibali.uct.ac.za/s/LBNNIN001-medicinechest/item/19397 Lind-af-Hagby, L. and L.K. Schartau. “The shambles of science: extracts from the diary of two students of physiology.” 1904. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27101200M/The_shambles_of_science Stourton, Edward. "When the fate of a dog tore a nation in two; A famous case of animal cruelty sets Edward Stourton and Kudu on a missio." Daily Telegraph [London, England], 3 Apr. 2010, p. 30. Gale OneFile: Business, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A222925631/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=0f1914aa. Accessed 1 Mar. 2023. Thornton, Alicia. “Portrait of a Man and His Dog: The Brown Dog Affair.” 10/22/2012. UCL Research in Museums. https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/researchers-in-museums/2012/10/22/portrait-of-a-man-and-his-dog-the-brown-dog-affair/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week the arts community lost a true legend Angela Lansbury at the age of 96. Her incredible 8 decade career spanned multiple forums from film to television to animation to the stage. One of Ms. Lansbury's most iconic roles was that of Mrs. Lovett in the murderous Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and this show also happens to be one our most popular season 2 episodes. So, we are honouring this great artist by releasing our Remastered version of this very bloody and thought provoking episode! Plus enjoy the fixed the sound quality too! Don't forget to leave us a review and share your thoughts on this episode on our social media pages. Follow the links below to reach our pages. Facebook Instagram Twitter

Back in October of this year we lost a beloved star of the stage and screen, Angela Lansbury. Her performing career spanned 80 years in which she received six Tony Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, and one Laurence Olivier Award. And despite her years in television and movies (her last film role was Glass Onion in 2022), theater was always her first love, having appeared in 14 Broadway productions and four national tours. But as you'll hear in this special episode (with a big help from fellow podcaster Dan Delgado), it was a long and bumpy journey towards the role in Mame that would cement her Broadway career and earn her that first Tony Award. You'll hear from composer Jerry Herman and from Angela Lansbury herself in this unlikely audition story of how a character actress from the movies became a leading lady on Broadway.   Subscribe to WINMI and get Bonus Episodes   OR Make a one-time Donation to the podcast   Subscriptions and donations help support the production of this podcast, not only improving audio and recording capabilities, but it also helps create transcripts like the one available for this episode.   Episode research and sources: "Look Back at Angela Lansbury in the Original Broadway Production of Mame" - Playbill "How Angela Became Mame" - Medium But Darling, I'm Your Auntie Mame! by Richard Tyler Jordan (2004) Anyone Can Whistle - Wikipedia MAME - Wikipedia Sound bites came from these full interviews: Angela Lansbury Discusses Mame - Television Academy Broadway MAME - Sony MasterWorks Broadway ANYONE CAN WHISTLE - Sony MasterWorks Jerry Herman with Barbara Walters on 20/20 (1984) Lansbury with Barbara Walters (1985) Herman Interview for Musical Theater Guild Herman on NPR  “Open a New Window” - 1971 Tonys Awards "We Need a Little Christmas" Piano Version - Steven C Opening Night of MAME in 1966 - Fred Robbins, radio reporter At times certain reports or articles conflicted on particular details or order of events, so best efforts were made to rely on the most reliable sources and err on the side of those who knew more about the events surrounding Lansbury's journey.

Welcome back to the 114th episode of episode of The Cup which is our a weekly (give or take, TBD, these are unprecedented times) performing arts talk show presented by Cup of Hemlock Theatre. With the theatres on a come back we offer a mix of both reviews of live shows we've seen and continued reviews of prophet productions! For our 114th episode we bring you “Screened Plays,” episode in which we pay tribute to the late great Angela Lansbury. We review her debut feature film appearance in Gaslight (1944), directed by George Cukor, and based on the play by Patrick Hamilton. Enjoy as host Mackenzie Horner along with Jillian Robinson, Ryan Borochovitz and our amazing panelist Jamie Knox breakdown their thoughts on Ms. Lansbury's Oscar nominated performance and how well this film as aged among other topics. Mackenzie Horner (Before the Downbeat: A Musical Podcast) – Instagram/Facebook: BeforetheDownbeat Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3aYbBeN Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3sAbjAu Jamie Knox – Instagram: @jamieknoxfilms // Follow his film on Instagram: @thepinesstillwhisper Jillian Robinson – Instagram: @jillian.robinson96 Ryan Borochovitz – [Just send all that love to CoH instead; he won't mind!] --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cup-of-hemlock-theatre/support

We celebrate the creative life and career of Angela Lansbury with Bridget Kies, Assistant Professor of Film Studies and Production at Oakland University in Michigan. From MGM contract player to Tony-winning Broadway star to her role as Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote, Lansbury's long and impressive career has touched generations of film, TV, and theatre goers. Professor Kies' work has been published in numerous academic journals and edited collections. She is co-host of the Cabot Cove Gazette podcast and in 2023 will publish a book about Angela Lansbury and Murder, She Wrote. Clip from S. 4, E. 20 Showdown in Saskatchewan.

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Denise Rodriguez came on Paid in Puke to discuss "Desperately Seeking Susan" on the day that Angela Lansbury died. After we finished discussing the film, she enlightened us with encyclopedic knowledge of Lansbury's career and, in particular, Murder She Wrote. It was too good to leave on the proverbial cutting room floor.  So please enjoy our little tribute to Dame Angela Lansbury. October 16th, 1925 to October 11th, 2022. 

Episode 67: Happy Halloweiner, everyone! We know you love us 'cause you've got that sweet, sweet Stockholm syndrome for your hostesses with the mostesses! But don't worry, we're putting away the heavy metal for one night; it's goin' to be all treats and no tricks. The Idiom Boys just wanna haunt your house so they can watch your sweet television, baby! So, cover yourself in shrouds and listen louds! Long live Lansbury! (Oh yeah, it's finally here: www.patreon.com/dontbeanidiom)

The legend of stage and screen died Oct. 11 at age 96. She starred in the TV series Murder, She Wrote and won Tony Awards for her performances as Mama Rose in Gypsy and the pie shop owner Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd. We'll hear excerpts from Terry Gross's interviews with Lansbury from 2000 and 1980.Justin Chang reviews The Banshees of Inisherin starring Colin Farrell. The son of Taiwanese immigrants, New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu defined himself as a teen by the music he loved. The murder of a close friend when he was in college changed the course of his life. His memoir is Stay True.

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/J3vu4QyhCDU In an illustrious career that included notable stage, film, and television roles, Ms. Lansbury first performed on Broadway in 1957's Hotel Paradiso and throughout her many years performing on Broadway, she was nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning six for the following: Mame (1966); Dear World (1969); Gypsy (1975); Sweeney Todd (1979); Blithe Spirit (2009); and was the recipient of the 2022 Special Award for Lifetime Achievement. She also hosted or co-hosted The Tony Awards five times, more than any other individual. On Broadway Ms. Lansbury's credits include: Hotel Paradiso (1957); A Taste of Honey (1960); Anyone Can Whistle (1964); Mame (1966); Dear World (1969); Gypsy (1974 Revival); The King and I (1977 Revival); Sweeney Todd (1979); A Little Family Business (1982); Mame (1983 Revival); Deuce (2007); Blithe Spirit (2009 Revival); A Little Night Music (2009 Revival); Gore Vidal's The Best Man (2012 Revival). On Tour Ms. Lansbury's credits include: Mame (1968); Gypsy (1974 Revival); Sweeney Todd (1980); Blithe Spirit (2014 Revival). Some of the highlights of this celebration will include discussing Gaslight and The Manchurian Candidate, as well as the 1982 filmed production of Sweeney Todd. National Velvet, Dear Heart, The Harvey Girls, The Manchurian Candidate, etc.

The legend of stage and screen died Oct. 11 at age 96. She starred in the TV series Murder, She Wrote, and in such films as The Manchurian Candidate and Disney's Beauty and the Beast. She won Tony Awards for her performances as Mama Rose in Gypsy and the pie shop owner Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd. Earlier this year, she received the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. We'll hear Terry Gross's interviews with Lansbury from 2000 and 1980.

I remember sitting on the couch on my Gran's davenport and watching 'murder she wrote' all by myself. I don't exactly think Gran knew what I was getting myself into, ya know just a precursor for my love to true crime, mystery, suspense and a flair for dramatics. I am sure that I was meant to be an actress in a former life or so I think. Angela was one of a kind, particularly type cast in some roles but also shining the brightest in the most peculiar way (kind of like Mary Poppins' spoon full of sugar but in a spicy way). I didn't continue to read the entire article written by Daniel Lewis of the New York Times (@NYTimes) but I did play the audio of a charming post life interview 'The Last Word: Angela Lansbury' by Mervyn Rothstein & Kassie Bracken stating; The New York Times sat down with Angela Lansbury in 2010 to discuss her life and accomplishments on the stage and screen. She spoke with us with the understanding the interview would be published only after her death.CreditCredit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times See the full video & complete article here: I'm off to go watch some MSW, see ya back next week for another #womantowatchwednesday. today's episode resources: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/arts/angela-lansbury-dead.html

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Welcome To The Madness!! A big, crazy show for Morgan and Jeannine this week as they have full reviews of HALLOWEEN ENDS and the SHE-HULK FINALE; the culmination of David Gordon Green's legacy sequel trilogy to Halloween was certainly a hugely unexpected movie and the end to the MCU's latest TV show broke all the rules, took fourth wall breaking to another level and proved just how easily it can annoy the people it shows are the real villains!! They also pay their respects to two truly magical performers as this week saw the passing of ANGELA LANSBURY and ROBBIE COLTRANE; and they even have a couple of trailers to discuss; a new take on A Christmas Carol in SPIRITED starring Ryan Reynolds & Will Ferrell, and MEGAN, an unsettling looking Horror about an overprotective robot!! After all that is a little Let's Talk discussion on some AWARD WORTHY HORROR PERFORMANCES and a trivia game based all around robot movies!! Our Youtube Channel for Monday Madness on video, Watchalongs, Live Discussions & more: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvACMX8jX1qQ5ClrGW53vow The It's A Wonderful Podcast Theme by David B. Music. Donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ItsAWonderful1 Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ItsAWonderful1 IT'S A WONDERFUL PODCAST STORE: https://its-a-wonderful-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Sub to the feed and download now on Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Amazon Music & more and be sure to rate, review and SHARE AROUND!! Keep up with us on Twitter: Podcast: https://twitter.com/ItsAWonderful1 Morgan: https://twitter.com/Th3PurpleDon Jeannine: https://twitter.com/JeannineDaBean_ Keep being wonderful!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsawonderfulpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsawonderfulpodcast/support

Aprillian, Grand Nagus and Constraxx discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's greatest MMORPG. The show features audio segments and email submissions from our lovely listeners. Guild Round up from Constraxx Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 767 - RIP Dame Lansbury If you want to join the conversations on the show, we have a live chatroom with in-game giveaways moderated by chatroom-guru Constraxx. We record Live on our Twitch TV page! http://twitch.tv/ctrlaltwowpodcast      

durée : 00:59:11 - Hommage à Angela Lansbury, la Reine d'Angleterre de la comédie musicale - par : Laurent Valière - Cinq Tony Awards, qui dit mieux ? Angela Lansbury n'était pas que Jessica Fletcher dans « Arabesque ». Révélée à 18 ans à Hollywood, elle a marqué l'histoire de Broadway en créant des personnages épais et forts dans « Sweeney Todd » et « Mame ». Elle a disparu cette semaine à l'âge de 96 ans. - réalisé par : Fabien Fleurat

Andy Warhol's portraits of Prince get their 15 minutes of fame in Supreme Court copyright showdown. Communia Copyright recommendations. Google unveils Pixel 7 Pro with Tensor G2 processor, starts at $899. Google Pixel 7 and 7 Pro review: Should you upgrade? Google gets serious about wearables with the Pixel Watch. Google Fi 'VCN' on Pixel keeps cellular data anonymous. Google starts rolling out passkey support for Android and Chrome. Meta Meets Microsoft – Stratechery by Ben Thompson. This Is Life in the Metaverse. Steve Jobs AI features in spooky 'interview' with Joe Rogan AI. 'Chat' with Musk, Trump or Xi: Ex-Googlers want to give the public AI. Google approves Truth Social for Play Store. Google Kills Cloud Gaming Service, Announces Cloud Gaming Laptops. Tour Amazon's dream home, where every appliance is also a spy. NASA's DART mission successfully shoved an asteroid. Elon Musk Spoke to Putin Before Tweeting Ukraine Peace Plan: Report. Musk Spoke to Kanye About Tweet That Got Him Kicked Off Twitter. Google unifies its BI services under the Looker brand. YouTube to broadly support the @username format with launch of YouTube handles. Google Meet will soon send you a transcript of your meeting. New Pixel Buds Pro firmware update rolling out with 5-band EQ, bug fixes, and more. Assistant Driving Mode ditches Google Maps integration, no longer an Android Auto replacement. Picks: Cathy - Theater review: Hail to thee, 'Blithe' Lansbury. Jeff - iPhones calling 911 from owners' pockets on rollercoasters. Ant - Amaran 100d LED Light. Ant - Ant on Mobile Filmmaking Podcast. Ant - Queen Pruitt Spongebob The Musical Tix Available. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Secureworks.com/twit cachefly.com

Andy Warhol's portraits of Prince get their 15 minutes of fame in Supreme Court copyright showdown. Communia Copyright recommendations. Google unveils Pixel 7 Pro with Tensor G2 processor, starts at $899. Google Pixel 7 and 7 Pro review: Should you upgrade? Google gets serious about wearables with the Pixel Watch. Google Fi 'VCN' on Pixel keeps cellular data anonymous. Google starts rolling out passkey support for Android and Chrome. Meta Meets Microsoft – Stratechery by Ben Thompson. This Is Life in the Metaverse. Steve Jobs AI features in spooky 'interview' with Joe Rogan AI. 'Chat' with Musk, Trump or Xi: Ex-Googlers want to give the public AI. Google approves Truth Social for Play Store. Google Kills Cloud Gaming Service, Announces Cloud Gaming Laptops. Tour Amazon's dream home, where every appliance is also a spy. NASA's DART mission successfully shoved an asteroid. Elon Musk Spoke to Putin Before Tweeting Ukraine Peace Plan: Report. Musk Spoke to Kanye About Tweet That Got Him Kicked Off Twitter. Google unifies its BI services under the Looker brand. YouTube to broadly support the @username format with launch of YouTube handles. Google Meet will soon send you a transcript of your meeting. New Pixel Buds Pro firmware update rolling out with 5-band EQ, bug fixes, and more. Assistant Driving Mode ditches Google Maps integration, no longer an Android Auto replacement. Picks: Cathy - Theater review: Hail to thee, 'Blithe' Lansbury. Jeff - iPhones calling 911 from owners' pockets on rollercoasters. Ant - Amaran 100d LED Light. Ant - Ant on Mobile Filmmaking Podcast. Ant - Queen Pruitt Spongebob The Musical Tix Available. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Secureworks.com/twit cachefly.com

Andy Warhol's portraits of Prince get their 15 minutes of fame in Supreme Court copyright showdown. Communia Copyright recommendations. Google unveils Pixel 7 Pro with Tensor G2 processor, starts at $899. Google Pixel 7 and 7 Pro review: Should you upgrade? Google gets serious about wearables with the Pixel Watch. Google Fi 'VCN' on Pixel keeps cellular data anonymous. Google starts rolling out passkey support for Android and Chrome. Meta Meets Microsoft – Stratechery by Ben Thompson. This Is Life in the Metaverse. Steve Jobs AI features in spooky 'interview' with Joe Rogan AI. 'Chat' with Musk, Trump or Xi: Ex-Googlers want to give the public AI. Google approves Truth Social for Play Store. Google Kills Cloud Gaming Service, Announces Cloud Gaming Laptops. Tour Amazon's dream home, where every appliance is also a spy. NASA's DART mission successfully shoved an asteroid. Elon Musk Spoke to Putin Before Tweeting Ukraine Peace Plan: Report. Musk Spoke to Kanye About Tweet That Got Him Kicked Off Twitter. Google unifies its BI services under the Looker brand. YouTube to broadly support the @username format with launch of YouTube handles. Google Meet will soon send you a transcript of your meeting. New Pixel Buds Pro firmware update rolling out with 5-band EQ, bug fixes, and more. Assistant Driving Mode ditches Google Maps integration, no longer an Android Auto replacement. Picks: Cathy - Theater review: Hail to thee, 'Blithe' Lansbury. Jeff - iPhones calling 911 from owners' pockets on rollercoasters. Ant - Amaran 100d LED Light. Ant - Ant on Mobile Filmmaking Podcast. Ant - Queen Pruitt Spongebob The Musical Tix Available. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Secureworks.com/twit cachefly.com

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Andy Warhol's portraits of Prince get their 15 minutes of fame in Supreme Court copyright showdown. Communia Copyright recommendations. Google unveils Pixel 7 Pro with Tensor G2 processor, starts at $899. Google Pixel 7 and 7 Pro review: Should you upgrade? Google gets serious about wearables with the Pixel Watch. Google Fi 'VCN' on Pixel keeps cellular data anonymous. Google starts rolling out passkey support for Android and Chrome. Meta Meets Microsoft – Stratechery by Ben Thompson. This Is Life in the Metaverse. Steve Jobs AI features in spooky 'interview' with Joe Rogan AI. 'Chat' with Musk, Trump or Xi: Ex-Googlers want to give the public AI. Google approves Truth Social for Play Store. Google Kills Cloud Gaming Service, Announces Cloud Gaming Laptops. Tour Amazon's dream home, where every appliance is also a spy. NASA's DART mission successfully shoved an asteroid. Elon Musk Spoke to Putin Before Tweeting Ukraine Peace Plan: Report. Musk Spoke to Kanye About Tweet That Got Him Kicked Off Twitter. Google unifies its BI services under the Looker brand. YouTube to broadly support the @username format with launch of YouTube handles. Google Meet will soon send you a transcript of your meeting. New Pixel Buds Pro firmware update rolling out with 5-band EQ, bug fixes, and more. Assistant Driving Mode ditches Google Maps integration, no longer an Android Auto replacement. Picks: Cathy - Theater review: Hail to thee, 'Blithe' Lansbury. Jeff - iPhones calling 911 from owners' pockets on rollercoasters. Ant - Amaran 100d LED Light. Ant - Ant on Mobile Filmmaking Podcast. Ant - Queen Pruitt Spongebob The Musical Tix Available. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Secureworks.com/twit cachefly.com

Andy Warhol's portraits of Prince get their 15 minutes of fame in Supreme Court copyright showdown. Communia Copyright recommendations. Google unveils Pixel 7 Pro with Tensor G2 processor, starts at $899. Google Pixel 7 and 7 Pro review: Should you upgrade? Google gets serious about wearables with the Pixel Watch. Google Fi 'VCN' on Pixel keeps cellular data anonymous. Google starts rolling out passkey support for Android and Chrome. Meta Meets Microsoft – Stratechery by Ben Thompson. This Is Life in the Metaverse. Steve Jobs AI features in spooky 'interview' with Joe Rogan AI. 'Chat' with Musk, Trump or Xi: Ex-Googlers want to give the public AI. Google approves Truth Social for Play Store. Google Kills Cloud Gaming Service, Announces Cloud Gaming Laptops. Tour Amazon's dream home, where every appliance is also a spy. NASA's DART mission successfully shoved an asteroid. Elon Musk Spoke to Putin Before Tweeting Ukraine Peace Plan: Report. Musk Spoke to Kanye About Tweet That Got Him Kicked Off Twitter. Google unifies its BI services under the Looker brand. YouTube to broadly support the @username format with launch of YouTube handles. Google Meet will soon send you a transcript of your meeting. New Pixel Buds Pro firmware update rolling out with 5-band EQ, bug fixes, and more. Assistant Driving Mode ditches Google Maps integration, no longer an Android Auto replacement. Picks: Cathy - Theater review: Hail to thee, 'Blithe' Lansbury. Jeff - iPhones calling 911 from owners' pockets on rollercoasters. Ant - Amaran 100d LED Light. Ant - Ant on Mobile Filmmaking Podcast. Ant - Queen Pruitt Spongebob The Musical Tix Available. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Secureworks.com/twit cachefly.com

Andy Warhol's portraits of Prince get their 15 minutes of fame in Supreme Court copyright showdown. Communia Copyright recommendations. Google unveils Pixel 7 Pro with Tensor G2 processor, starts at $899. Google Pixel 7 and 7 Pro review: Should you upgrade? Google gets serious about wearables with the Pixel Watch. Google Fi 'VCN' on Pixel keeps cellular data anonymous. Google starts rolling out passkey support for Android and Chrome. Meta Meets Microsoft – Stratechery by Ben Thompson. This Is Life in the Metaverse. Steve Jobs AI features in spooky 'interview' with Joe Rogan AI. 'Chat' with Musk, Trump or Xi: Ex-Googlers want to give the public AI. Google approves Truth Social for Play Store. Google Kills Cloud Gaming Service, Announces Cloud Gaming Laptops. Tour Amazon's dream home, where every appliance is also a spy. NASA's DART mission successfully shoved an asteroid. Elon Musk Spoke to Putin Before Tweeting Ukraine Peace Plan: Report. Musk Spoke to Kanye About Tweet That Got Him Kicked Off Twitter. Google unifies its BI services under the Looker brand. YouTube to broadly support the @username format with launch of YouTube handles. Google Meet will soon send you a transcript of your meeting. New Pixel Buds Pro firmware update rolling out with 5-band EQ, bug fixes, and more. Assistant Driving Mode ditches Google Maps integration, no longer an Android Auto replacement. Picks: Cathy - Theater review: Hail to thee, 'Blithe' Lansbury. Jeff - iPhones calling 911 from owners' pockets on rollercoasters. Ant - Amaran 100d LED Light. Ant - Ant on Mobile Filmmaking Podcast. Ant - Queen Pruitt Spongebob The Musical Tix Available. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Secureworks.com/twit cachefly.com

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We remember the late Angela Lansbury, who died yesterday at the age of 96, with WNYC's David Gebel. Plus, we take your calls with your memories of Lansbury. 

New comments from President Biden on the war in Ukraine and his approach to dealing with Vladimir Putin following this week's deadly Russian airstrikes. The mother of one of Senate Candidate Herschel Walker's children tells The Washington Post she had to push Walker to pay for an abortion he wanted her to have in 2009. The Republican candidate, who says he's anti-abortion, campaigned yesterday with two top Senate Republicans. Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman, a Democratic Candidate in another close Senate race, in Pennsylvania, just gave his first in-person, on-camera interview since having a stroke five months ago. Fetterman showed NBC News how he uses closed captioning to read questions in real-time, to overcome the physical effects of his stroke. Growing outrage in Los Angeles over racist comments made during a meeting of city councilmembers, and caught on tape. Demonstrators flooded City Hall last night and disrupted a City Council meeting to call for the resignations of the three officials involved in that conversation. We are mourning the loss of a legendary performer, Dame Angela Lansbury. Lansbury died just five days shy of her 97th birthday.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this week's official EFL podcast, Mark Clemmit is joined by Luton's Henri Lansbury to talk mowing, planting, seeding and weeding as the hatters midfielder explains his love of gardening. It's not all horticulture for Henri though, as there's a bit of football chat sprinkled over the surface, and Clem is also joined by Leyton Orient manager Richie Wellens, to talk about his side's impressive start to the season and to deliver some top notch punditry across all 3 divisions!

Luton get back to back wins for the first time this season in the Championship after a 2-0 win away at Hull City. An O.G and a screamer from Henri Lansbury sealed the points for the Hatters.

In June, Lansbury will receive the Tony Award for lifetime achievement. The Murder, She Wrote star previously won Tonys for her performances in Gypsy and Sweeney Todd. She spoke with Terry Gross in 2000.Also, David Bianculli reviews the PBS Great Performances documentary about Stephen Sondheim's Company.

Welcome to It's A Wonderful Podcast!! It;s about time for another Frank Capra movie on the main show and this week's choice is both very unique for Capra while epitomising his storytelling and filmmaking style!! Morgan and Jeannine talk STATE OF THE UNION (1948) starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn alongside Angela Lansbury, Adolphe Menjou & Van Johnson!! A powerhouse performance from a young Lansbury, political tensions between Hepburn and Menjou and a movie which is equally as intriguing in its production as it is on screen!! The It's A Wonderful Podcast Theme by David B. Music. Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ItsAWonderful1 IT'S A WONDERFUL PODCAST SHIRTS: https://www.teepublic.com/user/g9design Sub to the feed and download now on Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher & more and be sure to rate, review and SHARE AROUND!! Keep up with us on Twitter: Podcast: https://twitter.com/ItsAWonderful1 Morgan: https://twitter.com/Th3PurpleDon Jeannine: https://twitter.com/JeannineDaBean Keep being wonderful!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsawonderfulpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsawonderfulpodcast/support

If you asked any of these gentle parenting experts, they would say parenting is the most important work in the world. But they are also perpetually downplaying the hardest parts of it—which means not ever making visible the parts of parenting that we most need to change.Welcome to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast where we talk about diet culture, fatphobia, parenting, and health. Today I am chatting again with Sara Louise Petersen. She’s the Burnt Toast resident momfluencer expert, and you can catch her previous episodes here and here. Sara is also the author of an upcoming book about momfluencers and the awesome new Substack newsletter In Pursuit of Clean Countertops, which is a must-subscribe!Today, Sara and I are chatting about the gentle parenting trend—and how it intersect with our conversations around gender roles, diet culture, and more. If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe, rate and review us in your podcast player! And subscribe to the Burnt Toast newsletter for episode transcripts, reported essays, and more.PS. The Burnt Toast Giving Circle is almost to $9,000! We are so close to our goal and will soon be picking which state election to fund. So if you’ve been thinking about joining, we still need you! Here’s the Burnt Toast episode where I announced it, ICYMI, and the link to donate.Episode 41 TranscriptVirginiaHi Sara! You are the resident Burnt Toast momfluencer expert, which I admit is not a category of expert I knew that I needed when I launched the podcast, but it turns out it very much is. And you just started your own Substack newsletter! So let’s talk about that first.SaraIt’s called In Pursuit of Clean Countertops. It’s not about countertops. It’s not about cleaning. The title is a nod to all of the things that momfluencer culture invites you to pursue and desire and want. I started it a little over a month ago based on an inflammatory post by @BallerinaFarm, Hannah Neeleman. She’s a big one. Her husband Daniel Neeleman started his own Instagram account relatively recently. He posted about the way that Hannah loves to clean and natural light and children like to congregate around her. It just made me feel a lot of a lot of feelings, Virginia. So that was the the post that started it at all.VirginiaI had a lot of feelings about that post, as well. I also love your new Weekly WTF which is so cathartic to read. SaraMy goal is to take the text threads that we all have with our friends, which can be more like, “Holy s**t. Did you see this? This is enraging this is infuriating,” and explore why is it infuriating. Why am I feeling these feelings? To expose the systemic issues at play.VirginiaToday you are coming back on this podcast because we want to dissect a sub-trend of momfluencing culture. We’re talking about “gentle parenting.” I also see it called “positive parenting.” It’s important to say right off the bat, there is no official definition of this concept. Jessica Grose wrote a piece for The New York Times where she described it as “a sort of open-source mélange, interpreted and remixed by moms across the country.” And yes, that is really what it is. Sara, do you want to read this definition that we found in this piece in The New Yorker by Jessica Winter, just so everyone’s on the same page about what we’re talking about here.SaraSo, okay:In its broadest outlines, gentle parenting centers on acknowledging a child’s feelings and the motivations behind challenging behavior, as opposed to correcting the behavior itself. The gentle parent holds firm boundaries, gives a child choices instead of orders, and eschews rewards, punishments, and threats—no sticker charts, no time-outs, no “I will turn this car around right now.” Instead of issuing commands (“Put on your shoes!”), the parent strives to understand why a child is acting out in the first place (“What’s up, honey? You don’t want to put your shoes on?”) or, perhaps, narrates the problem (“You’re playing with your trains because putting on shoes doesn’t feel good”).The gently parented child, the theory goes, learns to recognize and control her emotions because a caregiver is consistently affirming those emotions as real and important. The parent provides a model for keeping one’s cool, but no overt incentives for doing so—the kid becomes a person who is self-regulating, kind, and conscientious because she wants to be, not because it will result in ice cream. VirginiaThat is what I want my children to be, is the thing. This is the goal I think a lot of us have for kids. And yet the path for getting there is so convoluted. Let’s talk about when we each first became aware of this trend and how it’s showing up in our parenting.SaraI became aware of it by way of attachment parenting, which was just everywhere when I had my first kid, who is now almost 10. Attachment parenting is the whole 'if the kid is crying, the kid is not being annoying. It’s expressing needs or desires and it’s your job as the parent to interpret the cries.’ In attachment parenting, you’re not thinking of the kid’s behavior as an impediment to your life, but as the kid expressing his or her or their individuality. I was all about this when I was pregnant. I read all the Dr. Sears books. And then, almost immediately after having my first child, I just felt like I was being gaslit. I remember reading something... Kelly Something?VirginiaOh, yes, KellyMom. Oh, I’m having a trauma response. It’s been a minute.SaraI know. So my kid was not sleeping and I remember reading on KellyMom something like “when cluster feeding happens and baby only wants mom, consider it a compliment.” And I was just like fuuuuuck this. F**k this!!VirginiaIt’s not a compliment. I’m so tired.SaraAttachment parenting kind of feeds into gentle parenting really well in that it’s all about prioritizing the child’s needs. And very rarely are the parent’s needs anywhere in the conversation.VirginiaI had a pretty knee jerk reaction against attachment parenting, although, you know, my oldest is eight, so same time period. It was everywhere. But I was like, this is just code for the woman does everything. And I didn’t sign up for that. It’s not what we’ve agreed upon in my house. We’re not doing it. But then the gentle parenting thing for me, it was discovering Janet Lansbury’s work when my older daughter was a toddler and the toddler tantrums started. (Note from Virginia: I forgot to mention in our conversation that I’ve interviewed Lansbury for parenting articles a few times and think she’s incredibly smart and thoughtful, even if her tantrum advice didn’t always land for me. If you are also a Lansbury fan, this Ariel Levy profile is a must-read.)I was constantly having to negotiate with this person who is totally irrational, according to the way I understand the world. And who is demanding a lot from me in ways that just don’t make sense anymore. At least with a baby, you’re like, well, you’re hungry, or you’re cold or—their needs are just more concrete and not emotional. But suddenly, in the toddler years, you’re sorting through this emotional stuff, as well as—I’m now going to get mail from people saying babies have emotions. I know they do. I know they have emotions. But there’s something about engaging with a tiny verbal child or quasi-verbal child that is just much harder for me. So this whole gentle parenting approach, I sort of clung to it like a life raft. Will someone explain why these children scream so much? And gentle parenting has these '“answers” for you. But what was interesting, even when my older daughter was two or three, was how much it didn’t work with her. All this advice about, like, “What’s up? You don’t want to put your shoes on? Or you’re playing with trains because shoes don’t feel good?” She would just be enraged when I did that. I think it felt like very patronizing to her. She was like, “I am telling you how I feel through my yelling. You putting words to it is not making me better.” SaraWell, one of my challenges that you’re speaking to is: You’ll get this script and the lines that you’re reciting are at odds with your feelings, which are often rage, impatience, annoyance, frustration, despair. So if you’re reciting this script that is like, “I can see you’re having really big feelings right now. And that’s okay. Your big feelings are valid,” kids, I think can tell that you are feeding them a line from a script. Or at least my kids definitely can. It oftentimes in my household has made things worse.VirginiaYes. Because then you’re getting more frustrated while trying to recite the script.SaraAnd then you’re doubly frustrated because the script isn’t working.VirginiaSo, let’s talk more about the scripts because they are one of the most common tropes of the way gentle parenting is performed online. I want to talk about this Dr. Becky post. (Above.) If I have a child screaming, “I hate you! I hope you die!,” which has happened in my life, me responding with calmness is almost denying the feeling. The goal, ostensibly, is to label their feeling, but you’re denying the feeling because you’re responding so stoically to their feelings. Something about it feels so inauthentic.SaraThe other thing that just really stands out to me in this mantra is “the real story is my child’s pain.” There’s no room for the parents’ feelings in this mantra.VirginiaI don’t disagree with the argument here that a small child using that word doesn’t really mean the word the way an adult does. Like, this isn’t them being verbally abusive. I understand that. But that doesn’t stop it from feeling bad when it happens. And we are supposed to so totally center the child’s emotions to the point of having no emotional response to it. It’s just never going to happen, that way.SaraWhat if the kid is saying “I HATE YOU” to the sibling? You have to attend to the kid who’s having feelings and saying I hate you. And you have to attend to the kid who is the target of the “I hate you.” It’s just so much more complicated than any of these scripts would have you believe.VirginiaI think what’s interesting about this movement is there’s a lot of emphasis on not being punitive towards kids when they do bad things. When they hit, when they bite, when they say I hate you. An older model of parenting would have been to punish those behaviors. And their argument is: We’re never going to help kids move past these behaviors if we demonize the kid who’s doing the bad thing. Which I understand. But if you have a dynamic where an older brother has just slapped his little sister in the face, what is that girl learning? That someone who loves you can hurt you like that?SaraWe don’t want our children to internalize our feelings. But I also don’t think it’s terrible if our kids see us have an emotional reaction, such as anger or frustration. It’s natural to have a reaction when somebody says, “I hate you,” or when you get slapped in the face. We need to allow for the parents’ humanity in all of this. If your facial expression becomes angry, that’s okay. You can still value the child’s humanity and individuality and hold space for both things.VirginiaThere’s a lot of talk about how if you tell your child how you feel, you’re making them codependent. I just feel like this is a real big leap because the alternative is you’re teaching your child their emotions should always be centered. That feels like a terrible model for future relationships.SaraIn the Jessica Winter piece, she gives the example of if your kid is having a meltdown and you’re in the middle of vacuuming, you should by all means stop vacuuming and say to the kid, “your feelings are more important than housework.” Winter writes: The housework that [Robin] Einzig says to put off is a synecdoche for everything that the gentle parent—and, perhaps, the gently parented child’s invisible siblings—must push aside in order to complete a transformation into a self-renouncing, perpetually present humanoid who has nothing but time and who is programmed for nothing but calm.”Virginia And when is the vacuuming getting done? Maybe you don’t want to spend your whole day being interrupted during a chore that should take 15 minutes. This feels very much of a piece with what we see in momfleuncer culture. That’s @BallerinaFarm cleaning her house with a smile while the kids are frolicking around. This image of joy and calmness through domestic life doesn’t line up with anything I’ve ever experienced in domestic life. I don’t think it lines up with most people’s experience.SaraNo. I constantly talk to my kids when I’m feeling overwhelmed or how a lot of work goes into keeping a house and raising kids. I’m sure some gentle parenting advocates would tell me I’m burdening my kids with my own suffering or whatever. But it’s true and nobody ever talked to me about this openly, about how being a parent and being a grown up is hard.VirginiaMaking that work visible is so important for so many reasons. We are never going to make progress on our larger cultural gender roles if we are continually downplaying this work. I’m sure if you asked any of these gentle parenting experts, they would say parenting is the most important work in the world. That’s why they’ve devoted their careers to giving us all the scripts! But when you’re perpetually downplaying the hard parts of it, and when you’re needing to perform it in this really controlled way, you’re not actually ever making visible the parts of it that we need to change. SaraI can see a future where kids who are parented perfectly according to the gentle script, turn into parents themselves and say, like, “What the f**k? This is hard as s**t! Why did my parents always present as so calm and pulled together?”VirginiaI mean, that assumes anyone’s able to actually execute gentle parenting. I fhave my doubts that anybody is this parent, even three days a week. The other night, my child who, like I said, screams in fury if I try a gentle parenting script, we were having a thing. I finally said to her, “I am a human being with emotions, and you are hurting my feelings right now.” And one part of my brain was like, You are breaking all the rules. You aren’t supposed to tell her that she’s hurting your feelings. But that was what turned the corner in that particular moment. I’m not saying she was like, “Oh, I’m so sorry, I hurt your feelings.” There was no apology. But it did make her pause for a moment and have this recognition of, Oh, right. I am powerful here. My words have impact. She took a slight step back and we were able to then get on a much better track. A thought I had a lot, especially when I was parenting toddlers was: If an adult treated you like this, it would be an abusive relationship—and yet we are supposed to accept this wholeheartedly from children. It’s one of the things that is so hard about parenting. Because they are children and emotional capabilities are not fully developed, so you literally sign up for accepting abuse for several years. It’s not abuse, but it does not feel great.SaraI’m sure you’ve had this experience, where you are heated, you are furious, you’re having big emotions and the person you’re arguing with is stoic and calm and seemingly unaffected by your big emotions. VirginiaIt’s the worst! SaraIt’s the worst. So I can totally understand why being the kid at the receiving end of these scripts would be infuriating. Like, I’m kicking and screaming and like spitting at you. Why isn’t this having any impact? VirginiaIt feels kind of manipulative in that way, like you’re trying to make them feel powerless. Because kids want a reaction. They’re looking for connection. Often the yelling is an attempt to get your attention and get your connection. So if you’re giving them Robot Mom, you’re not connecting with them authentically. VirginiaOkay, so another big theme, and also m big division point with gentle parenting, is the fact that they frame timeouts as an act of trauma. This is a @biglittlefeelings post. They are big in this space and I have a lot of feelings about that. Because, with both my kids, there are times when timeouts save my family. We all need to step away from each other. I don’t think it is punitive or traumatizing to teach a kid that when your feelings are so big that you can only deliver them in hurtful ways that you need to take some time alone We call them “cool downs” which is totally trying to soften the language. But giving myself permission to use those with my kids has helped so much. SaraI have a kid who, when she’s having her biggest feelings, will remove herself. Like, her instinct is to go and sob sob, sob for 15 minutes. But if I try to go in before 15 minutes, it’s bad. It’s only after that she has that cathartic release that she’s even capable of connecting. VirginiaI am sure there are kids who want to collapse on you and need that sort of experience. But recognizing that, if you yourself are someone who needs to go be alone to think through your big feelings, maybe your kid needs that, too. And maybe it’s okay.SaraAnother thing that I want to highlight that’s giving me some big feelings is the caption. It says:When the parental response is to isolate the child, an instinctual psychological need of the child goes unmet. In fact, brain imaging shows that the experience of relational pain–like that caused by rejection–looks very similar to the experience of physical pain in terms of brain activity. This is not great. VirginiaThere’s no citation, there’s no science. We would need to fact check the heck out of that.SaraIt just feels so manipulative and like playing into parental shame and guilt.VirginiaI bet it’s stemming from the same research used to argue for attachment parenting, about how if you let a baby cry it out, you’re inflicting physical pain on them. And then when we looked at which data they were using, it was children who’d been neglected for months in orphanages. It was not children in loving homes who are being asked to cry for 15 minutes to fall asleep. I’m guessing this is orphanage research again and that research is very important for understanding the impact of true trauma. But it is not helpful to give to parents who are trying really hard to be decent parents. The other trope I wanted to hit on is: Speaking in the child’s voice. This is a post from Robin Einzig’s Facebook page: SaraI just want to describe the image because it’s doing a lot of work. It’s a painting of a very cherubic looking three or four year old, whose eyes are just full of innocent wonder and who has like rosy little pursed lips. She just looks like a blank canvas that you as the parent might be in danger of destroying. So it says, “When you cut it for me, write it for me, open it for me, set it up for me, draw it for me, and make it for me or find it for me. All I learned is that you do it better than I do. So I’ll let you do it. In the textbooks, this is called learned helplessness, but actually I call it clever on the part of the child and less than clever on the part of the adult.”VirginiaSick burn from a gentle parenting expert. SaraAlso the quote says “quote unknown.”VirginiaI mean, obviously the quote is unknown. They just made it up. They’re not quoting a human child because no child has ever said, “You know Mom, when you do this for me, all I learned is that you’re better at things than me.” SaraSo this one’s really thrown me for a loop.VirginiaIt’s another one of those super paralyzing pieces of advice. I remember reading some advice like this. The argument was, if you’re drawing with your child and if they see how you draw a cat, then they’ll never learn how to draw a cat themselves, like in their own vision of a cat. And I remember trying to do that and being like, well, this just sucked all the fun out of drawing. I’m actually kind of good at drawing cats and now I feel like I can’t draw a cat. You’re simultaneously supposed to do nothing for them so they can have all of these learning experiences, yet also be emotionally available to the point you can’t get your vacuuming done.SaraHow the hell are you supposed to get anything done if you’re letting a two-year-old do all these things? You will spend your entire day having the two-year-old cut something. VirginiaThis is just one of those constant tensions of parenting where of course they have to eventually learn to do these things for themselves. But when you’re trying to get out of the door or set them up with an activity, so you can get things done, of course, you’re going to do the hard parts for them. Because life demands it.SaraBecause of life! Like really. Because of life.VirginiaOne more good quote from the Jessica Winter piece: Gentle-parenting advocates are near-unanimous in the view that a child should never be told that she “made Mommy sad”—she should focus on her internal weather rather than peering out the window. “Good job!” is usually not O.K., even if you corroborate why the job is good. “Because I said so” is never O.K., no matter how many times a child asks why she has to go to bed.So Sara, when we were talking about this trend, you really found the mom influencer to end all momfluencers. She’s definitely at the most extreme end of the spectrum. So tell us about @milkgiver, please.SaraSo I’ve been following her for a long time. This type of momfluencer is catnip for me because they present with this very cool hipster, maybe used to live in Brooklyn type of vibe. So I’m initially attracted by their Shaker style fisherman’s sweaters. And then I get lured into the messaging, which often gets into very intense prescriptive nutrition stuff. There’s a lot of beef liver gummy making. VirginiaShe’s in a striped caftan type garment. I mean, I think I have the same mug as her right here because you know, #influenced. I’m pretty sure she has an East Fork pottery mug. So I’m not here to hate on her mug choice.SaraI have yet to pull the trigger, but I’m sure I will, Virginia. I’m sure I will.VirginiaYou will not be sorry. Anyway, she’s basically buried in children while having her morning coffee, is the image.SaraYou know Mary Cassatt paintings? It’s giving me those vibes. Like, you know, adoring children, beatific mother. It’s a long post, the thesis of which is that we, as mothers have so much power over giving our children happy, trauma-free childhoods. She says, …for the most part, I, as a mother, hold the incredible power of creating happy childhoods for my little ones or not so happy childhoods… And this is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. there have been so many recurring themes in my life and something I keep hearing in the health and wellness circles is how disease or illness can be caused by past trauma. how interesting is that to think about? So, I’m not loving the direct connection between “I slammed the door or put my kid in timeout or lose my temper” and “down the road my kids might get cancer.” VirginiaIt defies the major thesis of all parenting research, which is that good enough parenting is all you really need. It’s reminding me quite a lot of the shaming that fat moms get. That your unruly body will be the cause of all of this downfall to your children. And again, that’s not borne out by research. SaraI have a therapist friend who is always like, “I actually take a lot of comfort in the fact that like, my kids can talk about whatever parts of their childhood in therapy later down the road. That’s okay.”VirginiaThat’s a great point.SaraIt’s okay if 20 years from now, my kid is like, “Mom always bitched about cleaning and how hard childcare was.” That’s not the end of the world.VirginiaThere are a lot of tools we can give our kids—including future therapy—to make up for our imperfections. I’m just looking at @milkgiver’s grid now and it is many whimsical hats. It is a lot of homemade. A homemade dollhouse, a homemade garland. Oh, and we should talk about the nutrition piece a little more because I definitely want us to hit on the way gentle parenting intersects with diet culture. Did you say she’s into calf liver gummies?SaraThere are so many gummies. So many.VirginiaHow do you even make liver into a gummy? I know she’ll have a tutorial for me. [Note from Virginia: Our post-recording fact-check revealed that @milkgiver actually makes beef gelatin gummies. We regret this error but not too much because calf liver gummies will surely be next.]Wait, can we also talk about the fact this woman doesn’t have a name? She’s just @milkgiver. SaraI do know her first name just because I’ve been following her forever, but yeah the fact that her identity is the giving of milk to children by way of her Instagram handle says a lot. VirginiaEven in the bio line, it’s just wife and mother of three, homeschooling, gentle parenting, Orthodox Christianity, knitting, nutrition, simple living. No name, no identity for you outside of how you serve your family. SaraDo you see the photo on the grid with the dried oranges? VirginiaOkay, so she writes: How did I get here? From being a fast food junkie, to vegan teen, to full out cigarette and alcohol addicted young adult to mama of three religiously wearing her blue blocker glasses in the evenings, taking raw liver shots and avoiding fluoride at all costs. This crunchy mama road isn’t always an easy one, and high five to anyone else desperately trying to keep their kids away from the junk being thrown at them right and left, I see you! It’s not always an easy path, but it is one I enjoy and ultimately follow because I like feeling good, I like keeping my kids healthy, and I like having energy, because that helps me to be a better mom. That’s my top goal in life currently, and being mostly healthy helps A LOT with it. It’d also be cool to live a long time. But who knows 😉🤎 #crunchymama #embracethecrunchOh, Sara. I don’t like it. I don’t like it at all.SaraI knew you wouldn’t.VirginiaI mean, she’s just combining so many different things. “Fast food junkie” is not the same thing as an alcoholic. Let’s be real clear about that. Addiction is a terrible disease that destroys lives. Eating a lot of fast food is not the same thing.SaraEven even the term junkie in that context.VirginiaYou are not a junkie because you like fast food. And then this, this whole message of, okay, you have to take the hardest road to do everything. Even if you don’t want to eat fast food every day, there’s a big gulf between that and taking raw liver shots and avoiding fluoride. We’re just combining every possible wellness trend. It’s like she needs to check every single box here in a way that’s exhausting and overwhelming, and not at all doable for anybody. And also not necessary. Nobody needs to take raw liver shots in their lives. People have lived to be 100 years old without ever taking raw liver shots.SaraI also don’t like the the use of the word “desperate.” She says, “high five to anyone else desperately trying to keep their kids away from the junk.” How about we desperately try to like give all kids access to food, period?VirginiaThat would be cool.SaraIt just feels like such a classic trope of the self-optimizing white motherhood stuff. “Because I like feeling good. I like keeping my kids healthy.” The implication is that if she were not to follow all these super strict guidelines, she would knowingly be not giving her kids a healthy life. VirginiaAlso this vibe of, “oh well, that’s just me! I like feeling good. I like having healthy kids.” Oh, really? Do you think mothers living in poverty don’t like to feel good? They’re not feeding their kids enough food every day because they don’t like having healthy kids? This isn’t a whimsical choice for you. This is something you can do because you have a ton of privilege. Let’s also talk about if you are a parent desperately trying to keep your kid away from junk food, how fast that’s going backfire and harm your child’s relationship with junk food. I mean, how many letters do I get? (For starters: This one, this one, this one, and this one.) This is probably the number one question I am asked. Sneaking food is just how it plays out every time because your kids know that your raw liver gummies are not as delicious as their friends gummy bears. SaraThe other thing that’s kind of hysterical to me is this is also not in agreement with gentle parenting. We’re supposed to enable our kids to have the tools within themselves to navigate life. So this feels like a direct contradiction. VirginiaThe interesting thing about the way gentle parenting and diet culture intersect is most gentle parenting folks are really big proponents of Division of Responsibility, which is about empowering kids to listen to their bodies and trust their own hunger and fullness. So you’re not counting bites, you’re not requiring them to finish stuff or eat their broccoli before they have the cookie. The problem is, it gets layered in with this idea of, “I have to choose things like calf flavored gummies and green smoothies and all of these perfectly healthy things.” And then I’m frustrated because my kids still is asking for Little Bites muffins and not my homemade spelt muffins or whatever. It’s using Division of Responsibility as a script for diet culture. You’re still trying to control them, but you’ve coopted this other rhetoric to do it. SaraI’m sure you’ve written and talked about this before, but what happens if you are so hyper-controlling the environment that your kid is choosing from? What happens when your kid enters the real world of actual food choice?VirginiaThose are the kids who go on playdates and eat the whole sleeve of Oreos at their friend’s house or eat sugar by the spoonful. I am not shaming those kids, I am not shaming those parents. It’s a totally natural response. You’ve been restricted, these foods have been banned. Forbidden fruit is really powerful and really tempting. Your mom’s not gonna let this stuff in the house. So it’s super understandable. This is another thing where they give us a lot of scripts! Let’s talk about this @biglittlefeelings post (above). SaraMy response as my kid is, “I don’t want either bowl. F**k the bowl, lady!”VirginiaGiving them a choice of the bowls is not going to distract them from the fact that they want cereal. Especially if you’re not offering cereal very often. I’m not saying you should cave in the moment and be a short order cook and just like immediately whisk off the bowl of yogurt and granola and give them the cereal. But you might do better to say, “let me pack cereal for your snack for school,” or “I totally hear you. Let’s make sure we have cereal for breakfast tomorrow.” If we’re gonna give kids permission to have all their big feelings, let’s spend some time on the big feeling about cereal instead of just like moving right past it and trying to distract them with the bowl choices. Again, it runs so counter to the larger message of what they tell us to do. But she doesn’t want to give in on the cereal, so she’s trying to control the food from a diet culture perspective— and then the gentle parenting quickly falls apart in the face of that goal. I also want to say it’s fine if sometimes you do say, “yeah, you know what, I’m gonna grab you the bowl of cereal.” Making a bowl of cereal is not the most time consuming thing. If this allows you to move on with your morning because it’s just been one of those mornings, it’s fine. It happens. We don’t need to feel like we failed because we did that. That’s another piece of this: When you don’t follow the scripts, you have to feel like you got it wrong.SaraTotally.VirginiaLet’s wrap up by talking about some parenting folks we do like. The person that I really liked that I wanted to talk about is Claire Lerner. She is the author of the book, Why Is My Child in Charge. I am going to put in a caveat that her chapter on food is not totally there. There’s definitely some diet culture stuff in it. But this was a really useful book for me to read because she does help parents understand why we end up in those power struggles. And a big thing I like is that she’s pro-timeouts when the kid needs it. She recognizes a place for them. She also really encourages parents to hold boundaries and not feel guilty about it. One line that she uses that I like is “you don’t have to like this.” I’ve started using this when I do say no to my kids about something and they throw a fit. I’m like, “You don’t have to like it, but this is what we’re doing.” And that has been so liberating. Because of course they’re having a tantrum. They don’t like being told TV is done for the day. But they don’t have to like it, we’re just doing it.Sara@Destini.Ann is someone I love. She’s just so approachable and the mother’s emotions are always valued. Her Instagram bio says “sign up for parent coaching below. Peaceful parent, but real AF.” That kind of tells you what you need to know. VirginiaYeah, I like it. I like it a lot. “Gentle is not my default.”SaraYes. Let’s acknowledge that gentleness is not everybody’s default and is labor.Another great one is @EricaMBurrell. I’ll limk to one of her reels where she’s talking about how gentle parenting is not something that white people own.VirginiaThat’s really interesting because that certainly is the impression you get on Instagram. SaraBlack parents have talked a lot about how Black culture plays into parenting mores and how there is a lot of judgment lobbed by white people towards Black parenting, without bothering to engage with Black culture. VirginiaYeah, that’s excellent. And then @supernova_momma?SaraIn her Instagram bio it says “Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator, Mother of Two, Autism /Neurodiversity Acceptance, Sometimes I twerk.” A lot of her content speaks specifically to neurodiversity, which I can imagine being so so tricky to maneuver in the gentle parenting space.VirginiaI think anytime your kid is dealing with something extra—whether it’s a disability, neurodiversity, or certain life experiences—there is this disconnect. You try to follow the rules they’re laying out and your kid has a completely opposite reaction to it and then you feel like you did something wrong, when in fact, the advice wasn’t inclusive and wasn’t thinking about your kid at all. SaraAlmost all the problems with gentle parenting arise from not respecting both the parent’s individuality and the kid’s individuality. Both you and I have talked about specific parenting experiences where we recognize, we intuit what our kid needs in that moment. We can intuit that this script is not going to work for either of us. So we make a choice based on our knowledge of our kids’ specific needs and specific personalities and our own specific needs and specific personalities.VirginiaI think it speaks to the fact that, as a culture, we don’t really empower parents—we especially don’t empower moms—to have that confidence in ourselves. You’re simultaneously expected to know exactly what to do and to have all this motherly intuition that guides you perfectly. But you’re also not really empowered to feel like you can make the right choices without outside experts, because we have such rigid standards and expectations. I just think it is helpful to start to realize you can make choices for yourself on this stuff. There is not a parenting police. Dr Becky’s not going to come to your house and edit your scripts. Butter For Your Burnt ToastSaraMy new obsession is Jessica Defino’s newsletter. It’s called The Unpublishable and it’s a takedown of the beauty industry. I just find it so, so delicious. She’s so funny. She’s so smart. I interviewed her recently for my newsletterVirginiaIt is so rare to find beauty content that is not tied to advertising—like so, so, so rare. So she’s a great voice. Hopefully she will be on a Burnt Toast episode soon. Stay tuned! It’s in the works. Okay, my recommendation is a recommendation that I feel I’ve been journeying to for a long time, that I was always meant to be this person and now I finally am. I am now someone who does puzzles. I think no one is surprised, if you know me at all, that I am now in the puzzling phase of my life, that I am I am a puzzler. I started it while we were on vacation. We had two days of a sick kid because that’s how family vacations roll. And so we were in our Airbnb and they had a bunch of puzzles. And I was like, I’m gonna do some puzzles while we’re hanging out here. It was so soothing! I think my husband always knew this about me, before I knew it about myself because several years ago for Christmas, he had given me an 1000 piece puzzle and he’d given me this cool felt mat thing (similar to this one). So you can do the puzzle but you can also roll it up if you’re not done. Because I have a dog and kids and you know, I can’t leave the puzzle out all the time. So I came home and dug it out of the closet and now I’m working on this puzzle in the evenings. I’m so happy. I’m just so happy. It was definitely at the point on vacation where my kids were like, “can we have lunch?” And I was like, “No, I’m doing this puzzle.”SaraIt sucks you in. VirginiaYeah, I was like, “I’m not a parent right now. I’m a puzzler. You have to raise yourself.”SaraWhen I will start a puzzle, the kids will be nowhere in sight to do the hard edges or whatever, and then they’ll come in like little vultures as soon as I’m down to like 50 pieces. Like, back off. Don’t steal my thunder.VirginiaYeah, mine did not want to do it at all. My older daughter did sort of like sit and haze me while I was doing it for a while, which was fun for both of us. But I think she’s got a puzzler in her, too. She’s just not there yet. I think it’ll come out, especially now that this is my life. SaraAnd your identity. VirginiaIt’s my identity now. And what it’s really great for is, this week I had a piece getting some pushback on Twitter and I was having a day where looking at Twitter was not going to be helpful to me. That evening, I put the phone down and puzzled away instead of looking at Twitter. I was really proud of myself!All right, Sara. Thank you so much for being here. Tell everyone where we can find you and find your newsletter!SaraDefinitely check out my newsletter, it’s called In Pursuit of Clean Countertops. I’m on Instagram at @SLouisePeterson and I am on Twitter as the same thing. The Burnt Toast Podcast is produced and hosted by me, Virginia Sole-Smith. You can follow me on Instagram or Twitter.Burnt Toast transcripts and essays are edited and formatted by Corinne Fay, who runs @SellTradePlus, an Instagram account where you can buy and sell plus size clothing.The Burnt Toast logo is by Deanna Lowe.Our theme music is by Jeff Bailey and Chris Maxwell.Tommy Harron is our audio engineer.Thanks for listening and for supporting independent anti-diet journalism. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com/subscribe

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