And then she rode off into the sunset

06/29/2012 Nichole

Dear sweet readers, I am taking July off. (As one does after attending a conference on blogging, getting wildly inspired and then posting a mad flurry of posts for days on end.) I may post a picture here and there, and I’ll probably be working on some backend and design stuff for the web site. But I’m going to try to give my bowl of words some time to replenish itself.

It won’t be entirely dead air here, though. I’ve lined up a few lovely guest writers who are going to share some memories of summers past with you, and we’ll also be revisiting some “classic” Butterscotch Sundae posts. I hope you enjoy them, and I’d really appreciate it if you show the guest writers some comment love.

I hope your July is a delight!

Diversions

Perry Mason explains the Supreme Court’s health care decision

06/28/2012 Guest User 2 Comments

I don’t generally talk about politics here, but I wanted to understand the ACA decision a little better. So I asked my brother the lawyer to explain it to me. Here’s what he had to say. -N

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or ACA, has passed the scrutiny of the United States Supreme Court. In this post, I’m going to try to explain why and how. And I’m going to try to do it using language that people who didn’t go to Harvard or Yale can actually understand.

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