Reply #6: Well, you know she could have refused and invited him to talk

[EFerrari]

while you where in the room with them. It was her job to do that, imo. Allowing him to do it the other way is some kind of endorsement that you two can't talk or that you can't handle what he has to say or some damn thing.

But what do I know. Except, it is exhausting to work with people who aren't helping, no matter what their frickin' initials are.

You know, I thought of your kid over the weekend, watching a BookTV segment on Olmstead, the guy who designed Central Park in NYC & a bunch of other public spaces. His biographer said, he wasn't qualified to DX him but thought BP might be involved. And then, he went on to point out how different the status quo was in that time: how Olmstead could go out to Saratoga for a "come apart" and his boss was totally behind him. He would plan that Olmstead would be back, rejuvenated, and work really intensely on his projects. It was a cycle that worked because he wasn't written off as he would be today.

It isn't up yet but when it is, it will be here:

http://www.booktv.org/Program/12659/Genius+of+Place+The+Life+of+Frederick+Law+Olmstead+Abolitionist+Conservationist+and+Designer+of+Central+Park.aspx