So, I turn forty on Friday...

Some thoughts...

In which I give voice most eloquent to why I hate the incessant Mother's Day push.

https://airndarkness.wordpress.com/2015/05/06/the-biggest-lie/

This is National Eating Disorders Week, a time to raise awareness about the damage done by eating disorders, what causes them- and how prevalent they are, especially in children. Despite the cyclic attention such disorders as anorexia and bulimia have received over the years, there is never enough emphasis put on what drives children to adopt such ( Read more... )

An old friend and I were catching up today, and he asked me today what my thoughts were on death, what I thought happened to us when we die, etc. He mentioned that, while he was agnostic/borderline atheist, he wasn't too keen on the idea of there just being... nothing at the end of our personal journey. He knows that I am a witch of sorts, though ( Read more... )

One of the things I've given up over the past eight years or so is my involvement in the gaming industry, both as a participant and industry worker. Oh, I've dabbled around with some games here and there, but overall, I've not done much. In the past two years or so, I've really been missing the conventions, the people, the play. I've missed the ( Read more... )

Originally posted by valarltd at Still in the 1960s
Originally posted by grail76 at Still in the 1960s
From J. Michael Straczynski ( Read more... )

I detest silence ( Read more... )

Not cool universe. Not cool at all.

Originally posted by valarltd at Reproductive Rights
Originally posted by mountain_hiker at Reproductive Rights
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The CAMPAIGNThe Bill of Reproductive Rights is an effort by the Center for Reproductive Rights to deliver a thundering statement-backed by hundreds of thousands of signatures from concerned citizens like you-to the U.S ( Read more... )

A friend has posed multiple questions to me of late that essentially amount to the same question, that being "How do I (we, you) know the gods and/or magic is real and I'm (we're, you're) not crazy? It is a hard question to answer, for such a question is distinctly personal and the answer is specific to each person. More accurately, how a person ( Read more... )