Meet Ruth- she’s tiny but mighty. She’s intense, and somewhat quiet but may be one of the most intimidating women ever. Ruth grew up in a working class family but was brilliant, and ended up attending Cornell where she met her outgoing, gregarious husband - the first boy she’d ever dated who actually cared that she had a brain. This was the 50’s and, seeing that his wife was a disaster in the kitchen, Marty took up cooking and they never looked back. They had a child and then almost immediately her husband had to go to war for two years. So she waited until he got back to attend Harvard Law School, where Marty attended as well. During that time he battled testicular cancer, so she spent evenings keeping him up to date on his studies as well as maintaining her position at the top of her class, one year behind him. While being a mom. Badass. Ruth was smarter than most men she knew, yet had been treated as second class by most of them. She devoted much of what became an illustrious career to women’s rights, eventually serving as a figurehead for the cause as the second female Supreme Court Justice of the United States. Ruth joked that there would be enough female Supreme Court Justices when there were nine. 🔥
But tonight Harriett is going to rev Dan’s engine! She started with an immensely painful wax this morning which was also quite demoralizing, as Harriett certainly lived up to her name. Tonight she’ll corner Dan after the kids are in bed.
Meet Dottie.She’s that person you know who is obsessed with the Olympics.She hosts an opening ceremony viewing party each year and commands an intense focus normally reserved for a lottery drawing or a breaking news announcement
Of course she will have a cellophane wrapped gift for each teacher containing a candle, lotion, chocolate covered almonds and a $25 target gift card to be hand-delivered by their children on the first day.Her back windshield will be covered with bubble letters written in shoe polish exclaiming ‘Back to School for Paxton and Claxton!’
