Introduction. Thank you for coming out. I wanted to thank keplers for hos hosting this event. This is a great option, you dont have to buy by book, but buy a book and support the organization. I have three short excerpts i would like to read for you. And then i thought we could have a short question and answer. Has anyone read the book yet . Some people have started it. Some people finished it. Some people working on it. Just to give you context. The format of the book is unusual. One of my publishers told me it is category stretcher. It is written primarily as a memoir. It is a personal experience of trying to balance a demanding career and motherhood and how i completely failed. But i tried to make sense of the failure and put it into a bigger context. And the idea for turning it into a book started when i started hearing stories from other women that were similar to mine about burning out and i realized how maxed out we are and i wanted to understand it in a bigger way. I tried to i
With richard brookhiser, Senior Editor of National Review at the New York Historical society. Everyone felt they knew her. And they did pretty much because she laid her life out for everybody to see. And she told us about what life was like in suburbia for women in the 1960s through the 1990s. And one of the wonderful things about her, you know, she wrote mainly humor, and it was schumer that was accessible to everyone. Because it was humor that happens to everyones lives but they might not recognize it until they saw it written on the page or in a newspaper column. Because funny things happen to us all the time, but we have to be out on the look out for them come and she was the one that focused our attention on the funny things that happen in the family, things that at the moment seem like craziness and driving you nuts, but when you look back at them you think that was really funny. So thats a real gift. Thats a literary gift. The life and times of erma bombeck this weekend as a boo
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That all about . Reporter the victims father did say that his son did like playing with toy guns but the rule was, you know, play with those toy guns in the house. He typically would not may with them out he typically would not play with them outside the house but according to the father the victim was taking the gun to the neighbors house to return it. It was a friends toy. Mark kelly in santa rosa, thank you. For a second day, bart trains sped past the spot where two workers were struck and killed over the weekend. Da lin shows us for a few hours this afternoon, they stopped and federal investigators rolled in. Where do you want to go, sir . San francisco. Reporter by noon bart stopped the trains between the Pleasant Hill and lafayette stations and set up bus bridges causing more rider frustration. People have already been, you know, hassled enough. I know a lot of people were sitting here oh, no, did they start striking again . Whats going to happen . Im going to take the bus to laf
Ever closer to our national calling of equal justice under the law. Send that same spirit upon the members of this peoples house, that they who have been entrusted with ensuring this great calling might fulfill that great promise and it will truly come to pass that justice would roll down like a river and righteousness like an ever flowing stream. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance today will be led by the gentleman from florida, mr. Garcia. Mr. Garcia i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, e nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The speaker the chair will entertain up to 15 requests for oneminute speeches on each side of the aisle. For what purpose does the gentlelady from North Carolina rise . Ms. Foxx i ask unani