If you...like what I've had to say here, and don't follow me on Those Other Social Networking Sites, you might not know that I have a Grown-Up Real-Name-Attached Blog that I now have enough content to feel comfortable publicizing! http://messageicare.wordpress.com.

From a single chapter in The Wordy Shipmates:
FIRST she quotes Puritan John Winthrop's speech "Christian Charity":
"We must delight in each other, make each other’s conditions our own, rejoice together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.I am a ( Read more... )

There's a kitten somewhere immediately west of my house, mewing loudly. It seems to be in the care of neighbors in the apartment complex. I know the sound of a kitten too young to be away from its mother. So does Simon, having grown up with unspayed female cats and their new progeny, and having played surrogate to a couple of abandoned/orphaned ( Read more... )

...that is not succinct enough to post to Twitter, and not too private to be relegated to the paper journal or an e-mail to a friend. These things are rare these days, my friends ( Read more... )

( 25 Things You Neither Wanted To Know About Me, Nor Were Afraid to Ask )

OK, I am going to start a new blog. That blog is going to be an advice column.

However, in order to have an advice column, I need to have letters to answer. Letters from people with problems. This is good, because without pointing fingers, many people I know are kind of fucked up.

Anyway, help me help you! Post your problem in the comments, ( Read more... )

Dude, I am so heartbroken that my ma and your grandma got this close to seeing this happen and didn't get to that I cried about it last night while I was walking down Hawthorne, in between cheering at fellow pedestrians and passing, honking, screaming drivers. But I also cried because your little girls got to see it happen, that they get to live in ( Read more... )

I just made a donation to Planned Parenthood in honor of Sarah Palin. If you have the means, I recommend you do the same ( Read more... )

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I once took a class from a former member of Students for a Democratic Society (who was convicted in connection with a politically-motivated bankrobbery); I once shook hands with Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale; I have given money to, volunteered for, and been a patient at Planned Parenthood; I have attended queer pride, anti-war and pro-choice ( Read more... )