Gracy Olmstead

2 months ago | theamericanconservative.com | Evie Solheim |Gracy Olmstead

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Fat And Unhappy: How “Body Positivity” Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself), by Tristan Justice and Gina Bontempo, Bombardier BooksIf you’re looking for a book that will make you want to wait outside of Coca-Cola’s headquarters in Atlanta with a few liters of soda to dump on an unexpecting executive’s head, go no further: Fat And Unhappy: How “Body Positivity” Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself) is that book.

Jul 30, 2024 | rabbitroom.com | Gracy Olmstead

by Gracy OlmsteadI read once of a culture in which children learned to walk long distances from a very early age. The story went that a three-year-old would be expected to accompany a parent three miles (being carried for much of the distance), and that a four-year-old should be willing to go four (again, not entirely on foot). The five-year-old would go five miles, the six-year-old six, and so on. The older the child, the greater their ability to trek long distances with adult help and support.

Jul 28, 2024 | theamericanconservative.com | Nic Rowan |Gracy Olmstead

Magazines Rest in Peace, Lapham The dean of Harper’s made the modern magazine what it is. Lewis Lapham’s influence on the shape of the American magazine through his work at Harper’s can hardly be overstated. Many tributes have been written to this effect in the past few days, and I suspect many more will be written in the weeks and months to come as all the little eminences of American literary life crawl out to draw their lines of connection to the great man.

Mar 7, 2024 | plough.com | Gracy Olmstead |George Eliot

According to local legend, my great-grandmother was quite the chicken killer. Nearly every morning, she would be out chopping off chicken heads before dawn. Lisa Jensen, who rented a house next to my great-grandparents, remembers waking up to the sound of great-grandma Iva swinging the ax. She would look out the window and see her decapitating birds. My great grandfather would be sitting next to her, pulling off feathers. The story is a fascinating and beautiful picture of their partnership.

Jan 18, 2024 | otherfeminisms.com | Leah Libresco Sargeant |Gracy Olmstead

One brief reading recommendation: I loved ’s discussion of taking turns barn raising:Some of my friends have created a spreadsheet for 2020. In it, each of us has listed a project that needs doing, and the dates we’re available to work. Each month, one family will host the rest of us, and we aim to get their project finished.