Hardly ever updated. More: www.lindsaysheltongross.com
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
Statistics
We looked inside some of the posts by lindsaysheltongross and here's what we found interesting.
Average Info
Notes Per Post
3
Likes Per Post
3
Reblog Per Post
0
Reply Per Post
0
Time Between Posts
2 months ago
Number of Posts By Type
Text
17
Last Seen Tumblr Blogs
Fun Fact
Mobile Tumblr US users spend an average of 4.04 minutes per session on the app.
Text
Year in Books 2019
I used to read 50 books a year, and for a few years I pulled it off. This year, I blame the Washington Nationals.
From the archives:
2019 Halfway Point
2018 Halfway Point
Year in Books 2017
2016 Halfway Point; 2015 Halfway Point
Year in Books: 2016
Year In Books: 2015
Year In Books: 2014
Fleishman Is In Trouble - Taffy Brodesser-Akner
In The Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado
Half a Life - Jill Ciment
Recursion - Blake Crouch
Three Women - Lisa Taddeo
Trick Mirror - Jia Tolentino
The Body in Question - Jill Ciment
God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America - Lyz Lenz
Normal People - Sally Rooney
What it Means When A Man Falls From the Sky - Lesley Nneka Arimah
How to Do Nothing : Resisting the Attention Economy - Jenny Odell
Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss
The Apology - Eve Ensler
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Magic for Beginners - Kelly Link
Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace - Jessica Bennett
All We Can Do Is Wait- Richard Lawson
The Great Believers - Rebecca Makai
How Could She - Lauren Mechling
Teeth - Mary Otto
Red, White and Blue: A Novel - Lea Carpenter
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things - Bryn Greenwood
The Witch Elm - Tana French
Feminasty- Erin Gibson
Then She Was Gone - Lisa Jewell
What If This Were Enough - Heather Havrilesky
Circe - Madeline Miller
0 notes
Text
Year in Books 2019: The Halfway Point
I used to challenge myself to read 50 books a year, and for a few years I pulled it off! And then Netflix happened.
(Sidenote: apparently, I forgot to post my 2018 End Of Year list? Oops.)
From the archives:
2018 Halfway Point
Year in Books 2017
2016 Halfway Point; 2015 Halfway Point
Year in Books: 2016
Year In Books: 2015
Year In Books: 2014
So far in ‘19, the most interesting thing I have noticed is that I apparently no longer read anything written by men.
Trick Mirror - Jia Tolentino
God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America - Lyz Lenz
Normal People - Sally Rooney
What it Means When A Man Falls From the Sky - Lesley Nneka Arimah
How to Do Nothing : Resisting the Attention Economy - Jenny Odell
Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss
The Apology - Eve Ensler
Magic for Beginners - Kelly Link
Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace - Jessica Bennett
All We Can Do Is Wait- Richard Lawson
The Great Believers - Rebecca Makai
How Could She - Lauren Mechling
Teeth - Mary Otto
The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai
Red, White and Blue: A Novel - Lea Carpenter
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things - Bryn Greenwood
The Witch Elm - Tana French
Feminasty- Erin Gibson
Then She Was Gone - Lisa Jewell
What If This Were Enough - Heather Havrilesky
Circe - Madeline Miller
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
The Conversationalist
Hi! I wrote a long something (about my time volunteering for a free clinic) somewhere else! (on Medium) You can find it here.
0 notes
Text
Year in Books 2018: The Halfway Point
Welcome to the halfway point. My speed has been atrocious but the quality has been pretty decent! From the archives:
Year in Books 2017
2016 Halfway Point; 2015 Halfway Point
Year in Books: 2016
Year In Books: 2015
Year In Books: 2014
So far:
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
The Nix - Nathan Hill
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
Text Me When You Get Home - Kayleen Schaefer
Emergency Contact - Mary H.K. Choi
The Flight Attendant - Chris Bohjalian
Vacationland - John Hodgeman
Secret Lives of the First Ladies - Cormac O’Brien
Blackout - Sarah Hepola
The Mothers - Brit Bennett
Sweetbitter - Stephanie Danler
The Mars Room - Rachel Kushner
The Opposite of Hate (I abandoned this, TBH) - Sally Kohn
The Power - Naomi Alderman
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business - Elisabeth Rosenthal
How Should a Person Be? - Sheila Heti
Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work - Melissa Gira Grant
The Fact of a Body - Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Less - Andrew Sean greer
0 notes
Text
Year in Books 2017
What I Read in the Year of Our Lord 2017, AKA A TOTAL TRASH HEAP, ALL 365 DAYS OF IT.
2016 Halfway Point; 2015 Halfway Point
Year in Books: 2016
Year In Books: 2015
Year In Books: 2014
I didn’t read much, and I think I missed noting a few I did read. Yikes. May 2018 bring us all some peace.
Imagine Me Gone - Adam Haslett
Difficult Women - Roxane Gay
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
On Living - Kerry Egan
Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
Sex Object - Jessica Valenti
Hillbilly Elegy - JD Vance
Option B - Sheryl Sandberg
Dream Land - Sam Quinones
Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
Congratulations, By the Way - George Saunders
Swingtime - Zadie Smith
All the Birds in the Sky - Charlie Jane Anders
How to Set a Fire and Why - Jesse Ball
Hunger - Roxane Gay
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud - Anne Helen Petersen
Made for Love - Alissa Nutting
Somebody With a Little Hammer - Mary Gaitskill
Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give - Ada Calhoun
Priestdaddy- Patricia Lockwood
All Grown Up- Jami Attenberg
We Are Never Meeting In Real Life - Samantha Irby
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Above the Waterfall - Ron Rash
What Happened - Hillary Rodham Clinton
Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado
Fresh Complaint - Jeffrey Eugenides
Don’t Suck, Don’t Die: Giving Up Vic Chestnutt - Kristin Hersh
Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning - Claire Dederer
The Impossible Fortress - Jason rekulak
Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan
Best American Short Stories 2017 - Ed Meg Wolitzer
Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward
0 notes
Text
What becomes of us hangs on what we choose.
The Rebecca Traister piece on our “post Weinstein reckoning” is very very very very very good.
I’m burning with rage watching some assholes pose as good guys just because they never put their hands on a colleague’s thigh, when I know for a fact they’ve run capable women out of workplaces in deeply gendered ways.
And:
But it’s also harrowing because it’s confusing; because the wrath may be fierce, but it is not uncomplicated. In the shock of the house lights having been suddenly brought up — of being forced to stare at the ugly scaffolding on which so much of our professional lives has been built — we’ve had scant chance to parse what exactly is inflaming us and who. It’s our tormentors, obviously, but sometimes also our friends, our mentors, ourselves.
And:
...lots of women never even got their careers off the ground because the men in their fields saw them as Smoking-Hot Skanks whose claim to having a thought in their heads was no more than a punch line.
And definitely this, which I’m surprised hasn’t been shouted out more on social media:
I got so much from him intellectually and emotionally, but I wonder if part of it was because I was game,” says one woman, “and what’s the cost of that?
0 notes
Text
State of the Books 2017 - The Miserable Halfway Point
It’s been a weird year and I haven’t kept up worth a s&*%. I’ve been sticking to my comfort food: Roxane Gay, George Saunders, Zadie Smith. I’m about 9 books behind where I should be?
It’s very depressing. I need a vacation.
Related: - 2016 Halfway Point - 2015 Halfway Point - Year in Books 2016, my YIB 2015, and my YIB 2014
Imagine Me Gone - Adam Haslett
Difficult Women - Roxane Gay
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
On Living - Kerry Egan
Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
Sex Object - Jessica Valenti
Hillbilly Elegy - JD Vance
Dream Land - Sam Quinones
Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
Congratulations, By the Way - George Saunders
Swingtime - Zadie Smith
All the Birds in the Sky - Charlie Jane Anders
How to Set a Fire and Why - Jesse Ball
Hunger - Roxane Gay
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud - Anne Helen Petersen
Made for Love - Alissa Nutting
Somebody With a Little Hammer - Mary Gaitskill
1 note
·
View note
Text
Transformers
An interesting, and somewhat unexpected, update:
My brief time with the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy is coming to an end. You will never meet a nicer and more inspiring group of people, and it's been a joy working alongside these members, but I’m excited to try something (very) new.
Starting June 12th, I'm joining the team at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America as the Director of Membership Development. A terrific collision of interests: membership, engineering, tech & marketing.
The AHP staff remains dedicated as ever - It's a great little organization which cares deeply about health care philanthropy and professional development for fundraisers.
Onward!
0 notes
Text
Courtland
I met Courtland J. Jones almost 20 years ago, and he claimed me on the spot as one of his tribe. While I don't have the same extensive, storied memories as his blood relatives, it was an honor to have him as a grandparent for nearly half my life, and I am comforted that my kids had a few years with their great-grandfather.
The man is irreplaceable: brilliant, fascinating, mischievous, loyal, charming, unpretentious, generous, extremely funny, and an outrageous flirt. Every single time he saw me, he had the same greeting: a kiss on the cheek, a wink, and a "well, hellooo, Beautiful!" I realized this morning (selfishly) that no one will ever greet me in quite the same way again. I already miss it.
He was the suavest dude I ever met. He oozed cool. He would hate that I am writing this.
Court was just a few weeks away from his 99th birthday. On Tuesday, he left this world precisely on his terms. He was ready, but it's devastating all the same.
0 notes
Text
Do you have dropsy? The grippe? Scofula? The vapors? Jungle rot? Dandy fever? Poor man's gout? Housemaid's knee? Climatic poopow? The staggers? Dum-dum fever?
Want to hear a disgusting story? I’ve talked about this before at length, but let’s revisit just for the fun of it: this is the tale of my never-ending vomiting.
I'm a puker. It's gross, I am very aware. There are a lot of explanations I’ve offered in the past, and more than one embarrassing social situation I cringe thinking about, but I've managed to mostly ignore the messiness for years.
I've blamed it on foods, I've blamed it on pregnancy. Sometimes it's been funny, sometimes not. If you saw a car pulled over on the Beltway in the 80's, it was probably me: DC's Most Carsick Kid. Apologies to anyone who has ever had to sit next to me during a bumpy landing at National airport. I am almost always green, even in the best of situations.
I've heard it all: "Weak stomach." "Can't hold her liquor" (this one is semi-true,)" and my favorite: "Maybe it's psychological?"
And then, a year or so ago, what I've mostly considered a minor character flaw escalated pretty quickly. For a healthy adult who has only been hospitalized for childbirth, it was surprising - and it sucked. What I thought was the stomach flu lingered for weeks. I couldn't eat. I was exhausted all the time and suffered from a constant, sharp abdominal pain. I could barely get out of bed, let alone make it to the office comfortably or be present with my kids in any meaningful kind of way. I barfed ginger ale on every soccer field in Arlington County.
Mom of the Year.
Doctors weren't sure what I had at first, so they threw out every option, hoping something would stick: Pancreatitis! Gall bladder attack! Ectopic pregnancy! Non-standard appendicitis! Angina! (I got an EKG.) I had a very tiny and luckily brief mental breakdown at a mention of stomach cancer! (Terrific!)
I ended up in Vegas last spring on a work trip, living on crossed fingers and massive doses of Prilosec, vomiting my guts out any time anything other than liquid hit my stomach lining. In total, I lost 25 pounds and generally looked like hell. (I can't believe I even have to write this, but a hot tip: never compliment someone on how "great they are looking!” [that not-even-thinly veiled "thinner is better” party line] unless you know the backstory.)
At some point, someone in the medical community said the magic words: "Hey.... maybe you should get an endoscopy." I finally got in to see a gastroenterologist. A twenty-minute hospital procedure showed two ulcers, one of which was seriously nasty. I immediately named it after my best friend's ex-boyfriend, which was funny at the time.
I am in a very small percentage of people where ulcers appear inexplicably - no bacterial infections, no alcoholism, fairly active, not morbidly obese, don't binge on spicy foods, non-smoker, not a heavy NSAID user. We’re an exclusive club, and we travel precariously through life. You’ll know us by the plastic bags in our pockets and our roving eyes, scanning for the nearest restroom or potted plant.
The intersections of luck and privilege: I was prescribed and able to pay for premium meds, I watched my diet and consumed bland, healthy meals. I cut back on alcohol significantly and totally cut out Advil. For the most part, I was able to heal myself well before the situation intensified to the point of surgery. I still have to watch certain foods and behaviors, but these days I am mostly back to... whatever normal was. I'm not Catholic, but St. Charles Borromeo, the patron saint of ulcers has the best schnozz (why is he not the patron saint of noses?) so I'm on constant lookout for a tiny statue of him for my desk.
The point of all this is: the entire stupid experience cost a damn fortune, but I am literally basking in economic advantages. My (good, not great) insurance covered the majority of expenses.
Imagine working this hard to ensure people's deaths, and not just of demonic diseases like cancer, but of uncomplicated and easily treatable conditions as well - like a crappy little ulcer. The ACA repeal isn’t about health care, it’s about wealth redistribution: more for the extremely rich, nothing for everyone else. We humans are breakable, but we are also often fixable. The GOP doesn't want people fixed. The GOP wants people gone.
More:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/03/23/republicans_may_eliminate_obamacare_s_essential_health_benefits.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republican-obamacare-repeal-vote-overview_us_58d2ec22e4b0f838c62f4285?yk328qe7k5d0a4i
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-obamacare-trump-supporters-20170312-story.html
http://www.vox.com/2017/3/22/15031750/trumpcare-essential-health-benefits-consequences
youtube
0 notes
Text
What I’m reading - March 7, 2017
Welp: the plan to replace ACA
My two favorite authors have a conversation
I’m in Maine this week: why “the other Portland” might be the next tech hot spot.
Ben Carson is an idiot.
Ushering good people into better careers
0 notes
Text
What I’m reading - February 7, 2017
I’m back, baby!
Misc:
Drones at SB 51
GOP changing tune on ACA repeal
Against Recommendation : “The post-election social media barrage has put us in a strange spot: We don’t want to remain silent and complicit, but are we just adding to an exhausting wall of sound?”
Ghosting, shade, & microaggression
Women:
Jones bows out
Merkel and May
0 notes
Text
April 6, 1905
This is my great-grandparents’ Ellis Island paperwork. At age 26 and 27, they arrived in the U.S. with the following:
two toddlers
an elderly parent
the address of their new home, another 1,080 miles away
and, according to the ship manifest, "25? dollars" (the question mark slays me.)
Their ship was only a few years old, so it had “relatively clean water available, even for the third class passengers, and adequate ventilation.” Sounds like a blast? And yet they were incredibly, INCREDIBLY fortunate.
I don’t know how anyone sleeps at night.
0 notes
Text
What I read in 2016 - Internet Edition
This was simultaneously my favorite and least favorite thing I read in 2016. (Which means I thought it was pretty brilliant.)
0 notes
Text
What I Read: 2016
What I Read: 2015
What I Read: 2014
This year was a reading SLOG for me. It’s a disappointment not to reach at least 50, but I tried my damnedest. We’ll blame a new job and other life things.
Best of the bunch for me? Kelly Link’s Get In Trouble. Biggest oversight? I can’t believe I didn’t read Swing Time.
I made some weird choices in 2016. Maybe that’s fitting for a very, very weird year.
More, as always, at Goodreads.
The Other Serious - Christy Wampole
The Food Lab - J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (typically I wouldn’t include a cookbook on this list, but this is so much more than a cookbook. It definitely counts.)
Imagine Me Gone - Adam Haslett
Originals - Adam Grant
The Wealth of Humans - Ryan Avent
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
Commonwealth - Ann Patchett
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
The Throwback Special - Chris Bachelder
Hot Milk - Deborah Levy
Orange is the New Black - Piper Kerman
Arcadia - Lauren Groff
Modern Lovers - Emma Stroud
We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
My Notorious Life - Kate Manning
How to Be a Person In The World - Heather Havrilesky
Get In Trouble - Kelly Link
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube - Blair Braverman
The Girls - Emma Cline
The Whore’s Child - Richard Russo
Bad Dirt - Annie Proulx
Shout Her Lovely Name - Natalie Serber
The Martian - Andy Weir
A Spool of Blue Thread - Ann Tyler
Mr. Splitfoot - Samantha Hunt
Lee Krasner: A Biography - Gail Levin
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
Shrill - Lindy West
Aquarium - David Vann
Troublemaker - Leah Remini
The Circle - Dave Eggers
The Twelve- Justin Cronin
The Passage- Justin Cronin
Career of Evil - Robert Galbraith
The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith
Silver Screen Fiend - Patton Oswalt
All the Single Ladies - Rebecca Traister
A Field Guide to American Houses - Virginia McAlester
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
Lila - Marilynne Robinson
American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld
Fates and Furies - Lauren Groff
The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell
Lock In - John Scalzi
The First Bad Man - Miranda July
This is Not Your City - Caitlin Horrocks
The Story of a New Name - Elena Ferrante
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
0 notes
Text
Donate to your local hospital
My second niece, May Judith, is five days old.
May (or "MAYDAY!," an incredibly apt nickname) clocked in at a whopping 2.5 pounds. She was ushered into the world by a team of medical professionals my family cannot possibly be more indebted to. Despite the less than ideal circumstances surrounding her 12-week early arrival, May is doing great. She'll be a resident of the NICU for an undetermined amount of time, cared for by doctors and nurses who are a different kind of family - not blood, but just as important.
I'm not a particularly religious person (to the disappointment of my mother, I'm sure.) But I've kept returning to the lyrics of “O Holy Night.” Seasonally appropriate, baby appropriate, May J. appropriate: "A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices." If you do not have a personal experience with the US healthcare system, you will someday, and I hope your story has a lovely ending.
2016 was a terrible year. My expectations for 2017 aren't high, either, but I'm steeled for what's to come now. A thrill of hope.
0 notes