Spreadin’ Love 596

OK. Yesterday was an off-day for me. I read a lot, but didn’t have the ability to string together words to write a blog post. I’m going to throw out a bunch of links and then I’ll write blog posts about Monica Lewinksy and slacktivism (not in the same post).

A cancer doctor talks about the experience of watching his wife die from cancer. It’s a three hanky article.

Slate has an excerpt from Rob Lowe’s memoir about watching his son leave for college. It was surprisingly sweet. And surprisingly relate-able. Except the part where he couldn’t go into a crowded restaurant with his son, because he knew he would be recognized.

Where do conservatives and liberal go to eat?

Brooklyn is getting poorer. 

America and the rest of the developed world is getting older.

And America’s UMC kids are insanely involved in competitive sports.