The official song for Valentine's Day 2007 ( Read more... )

YAY DREAMGIRLS!
*waves pom-pons around ( Read more... )

Let's just say that I've seen Dreamgirls more than once. I love it. I've also been listening to the soundtrack incessantly ( Read more... )

They say death comes in threes, and so it did this week. Of all the thousands who drew their last breath between Christmas and New Year's 2006, three had worldwide import. Two had some cultural connection to me. The one that is the most disturbing was the most distant ( Read more... )

Old friends: my Christmas cards are addressed, but they're going to be late (sigh). Thanks for sending me such beautiful ones... yours will be arriving well before the New Year. The good news is that I've got all the addys in a labels file now, so I can do this Thanksgiving weekend next time ( Read more... )

Awesome speech by David Korten from Veterans for Peace, author of The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4260537280394822124&q=From+Empire+to+Earth+Community&hl=en

This year, for the first time since the early 1950s, my grandmother is not throwing a holiday party. Two strokes this summer meant that she had to give up her home and move to a senior citizen complex with her sister. It also has meant that my grandma's famous cooking has changed because she cannot remember the when and how. (I still can't ( Read more... )

The Phoenix trip went well. (The only regret is that I couldn't stay longer!) I'm on my way to Nashville until Tuesday for another conference presentation ( Read more... )

Awake and writing... found a poem by one of the masters that I've never encountered before and want to save... it's drumming through my brain as sleep eludes me, for the muse is ever an unrelenting taskmistress...

This is a song for the genius child ( Read more... )

This is why I love the Millennial generation, those born in the 1980s and 1990s:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/8/22724/0887

It was that thread, in the end, that brought emotional release. For the first time, the victory feels real to me. I can almost hear ( Read more... )