Doreen Michele

I just now searched for "sacrifice definition" and it pulled up an assortment of different meanings, none of which are wrong per se but none of which say what I think the word really means. The closest was this: The act of giving up something highly valued for the sake of something else considered to have a greater value or claim: Searching for "sacrifice etymology" gets me this: Latin sacrificium The word sacrifice comes from Latin sacrificium, which means "a making sacred". It is composed of the Latin words sacer, meaning "sacred" or "holy", and facere, meaning "to do" or "to make". The word sacrifice originally referred to the act of offering something to a deity as a sign of respect or appeasement. And that agrees with what I think of the word. Sacrifice is making a choice which honors and invests in something you value so much you "hold it to be sacred." If you feel like giving up something is a painfu...

Google needs to update its algorithm. Its current algorithm is a ridiculous and burdensome thing that is a huge headache for both freelance writers and bloggers alike. If I write a piece on a blog and also write a piece on Reddit and use substantially similar wording, Google decides the second one is plagiarism. If I get paid to write multiple pieces on the same topic using the same citation and there's nothing else out there with substantially similar research and I quote the pertinent info in more than onyce freelance piece, it gets rejected as copied content. So you have to jump through ridiculous hoops to sound like it's entirely original. You end up doing stupid stuff like reordering a list of items just to sound different and hope the filter doesn't kick it back and insist you rewrite it. I am saying this because I want to write about part-time college on a blog of mine and on Reddit I own and I don't want to link to my blog because everyone freaks out about me ...

1. Parenting and Education.  I think good parenting is teaching your kids how to live right and there is no clear bright line between raising them well and teaching them.  Raising Future Adults Adult Learners Handbook   r/MovingOnUp r/TheGraceProject 2. A new clothing paradigm as women move into the work force and stop being primarily paid for sex, sex appeal or "women's work."  Coastal Clothes   November West Wears r/FrenchWardrobe 3. Adequate nutrition via a paradigm other than "We assume you live in a household with a full-time homemaker, either your wife or mom, cooking for the entire family and memorizing all the health issues and special dietary needs of all members so you don't have to think too much about food."  Lunchbox Essentials Nutrient Dense   r/NutrientDense  4. Towns, neighborhoods, transit and other "urban planning" stuff, though I'm interested in giving pushback against the trend of big cities eating the world. My interests tr...

A heteronormative view, therefore, involves alignment of biological sex, sexuality, gender identity and gender roles. Heteronormativity has been linked to heterosexism and homophobia, and the effects of societal heteronormativity on lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals have been described as heterosexual or "straight" privilege. I increasingly use the phrase heteronormative culture . So I thought I would define what I mean for future reference. I'm not talking about the view that most people are straight. I'm talking about a lot of cultural norms rooted in the implicit assumption that nearly everyone is straight, thus being something other than a cis het person is some extremely tiny minority, so small as to be an aberration and therefore nothing society needs to incorporate any kind of cultural accommodation for. This is not and has never been true. The lack of healthy societal norms for anything other than "You must fall in love with a member of the opposite ...

I like living well and enjoying life. I think of myself as a hedonist but I rarely call myself that because to other people that seems to mean "shortsighted idiot who has zero concept of consequences and is incapable of learning from their mistakes." Because most people seem to think "hedonist" means "drunkard and drug addict who sleeps around casually and has zero sexual ethics " Excuse me? I like my fun without regrets. Hangovers, STDs, jail time and other ruinous consequences for shortsighted behavior are absolutely not my idea of "fun," thanks. The expression bon vivant  seems to do a better job of conveying what I mean which is that I like eating well, good conversation, nice clothes and similar pleasantries.  I like living well and bon vivant is French for "person who lives well." (Literally "good liver.") If you want to communicate effectively, it's pointless to try insist your audience is wrong about what a word ...