I can always frame my life in terms of responding to others ( Read more... )

Especially in a country which in theory is supposed to be democratic, ie to reflect the wishes and desires of its majority citizens, and particularly since we swing our weight around to tell other nations or groups which ones are out of line (our line), right or wrong, Force change in other countries...I believe there is no such thing as an ( Read more... )

I have decided on my ideal real estate ( Read more... )

I am homebound again by force - the force of the flu. I feel poopy. So I am reading tonight, the Hillary Clinton biography, which is Brain-Lite, being what it is, but very entertaining. I have considered trying to save up to take time and volunteer for her campaign if she runs for President in 2008, not because I am a Hillary-worshipper but she ( Read more... )

For Christmas, I picked out a car journal for myself. It's quite cool: a little red, hardbound journal with the word Passion on the front, which is my main Guide right now in life. Until I got this I would pull over off the road into parking lots and off the side of the road and write my thoughts on the backs of little credit card slips and ( Read more... )

Today the sun is shining and is making the bare wood of the tree limbs outside almost beautiful. I was so concerned when the leaves started to fall again this year because I knew I had not spend enough time appreciating those leaves this past year. I thought that this would begin one long, dreary gray period that felt grayer than normal, but we ( Read more... )

I think after a while it gets tough to discern whether or not you should feel real fear when you keep getting passed Christian tracts like the one on my fridge that says, "One day YOU will stand before GOD" [capitalization not mine]. I tucked it under my pink magnet that says, "Mommy, when I grow up, I want to help smash the white racist, ( Read more... )

Next week, my best friend, Sara, is moving here. We were discussing with one another how absolutely impossible it is to explain to others who refuse to understand it with the norms of relationships in the world. "So you are just moving there to hang out with your best friend, because she's there?" "You don't have a job, and you are moving from ( Read more... )

Well, I realized something today after another long conversation with the best friend. Ridicule is an incredibly immature, passive-agressive tactic that many adult people around my age (23) who seemingly have moved past their junior high years still use. It's as if they still cannot manage to confront someone one-on-one as a human or maybe they ( Read more... )

We are going to call it Exit 4 temporarily - Sara wants to do this and I emphatically agree. If something changes, we can adjust later. But now we both feel that is a cool name. Also, there is a row of billboard signs advertising one or another multinational corporate restaurant or shopping resort (I actually heard someone one time call ( Read more... )