This will create chaos if it passes. This is a big threat.

I could see cases where kids want to transfer to successful programs, making the rich richer and poor poorer. For example, a girl could play in the volleyball championships, change schools for the basketball championships and then go to a third school for softball or track.

If we reopen it to negotiations, there will be chaos, and if we postpone it, it will be a negative signal for the priority that human rights should have at the UN.

Brooding is more something I do when I'm working. I know so much more about sitting around worrying about a work project than I do about worrying about kids. This could just be a fact of life for older moms. We've worked and worked and worked and if we are lucky enough to finally have a child or two, we find ourselves suddenly catapulted into a most alien kind of chaos.

Work is so much easier. Anyone will tell you that. To have a desk, where you have everything all lined up, and a schedule you more or less get to agree to. Work. I am a worker. This is so funny because I never really think of my work as work. I certainly never though of myself as having a career. Writing, work, this is just who I am. I am a person who sits at a desk and makes phone calls and taps at a computer keyboard and sips coffee and calls her mom at five. That I am anything better or smaller than that has come as sudden news to me.

Brand new.

News.

You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos

From today we will not allow armed chaos, the taking of the law into individual hands, or attacks on public property.