Quote I Love: This is all kinds of awesome!

Posted on September 18, 2013 by SloanParker

“My wife also gets a load of emails from people asking where our son’s father is, as though I couldn’t possibly be around and still allow a male son to display female behavior. To those people I say, I’m right here fathering my son. I want to love him, not change him. My son skipping and twirling in a dress isn’t a sign that a strong male figure is missing from his life, to me it’s a sign that a strong male figure is fully vested in his life and committed to protecting him and allowing him to grow into the person who he was created to be.”

–Matt Duron, a veteran police officer, in his article My Son Wears Dresses; Get Over It

Quote From My Life: Jizza Hut

Posted on July 26, 2013 by SloanParker

Was planning to meet my parents for dinner at Pizza Hut the other night when my mom sent the following text…

See u @ 6 @jizza hut.

Not that I would mind going to jizza hut, but I really don’t want to meet my parents there.

Quote I Love: Take Me Away

Posted on June 3, 2013 by SloanParker

“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”

–Hazel Rochman

Quote I Love: Just a common man

Posted on April 29, 2013 by SloanParker

I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who’s ever lived: I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.”

— Noah Calhoun from The Notebook

Quote I Love: The good outnumber you, and we always will

Posted on April 17, 2013 by SloanParker

“But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We’d have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, ‘The good outnumber you, and we always will.'”

-Patton Oswalt in reaction to the Boston Marathon bombings