Look at the wonder of the Internets!

There's a progressive directory for the Baltimore area. Some of the links and titles are misspelled or miscoded, and I don't know when it was last updated, but how handy, right? It also reminds me that I've been meaning to check out the Progressive Action Center on Gorsuch for over a year now.

I'm horrified and sickened, but also furious, at what a catastrophic chain of events led to the disaster in New Orleans and the surrounding areas ( Read more... )

Yesterday I scrubbed out our tub and scraped off a truly disgusting layer of soap scum we'd been ignoring for far too long. Then, I swept the bathroom floor, cleaned our mirror, and scrubbed the sink and toilet. I also took out all our trash, swept and mopped our kitchen floor, and did a general pick-up around the house, especially in the kids' ( Read more... )

Our house is one hundred years old. Some days, I love this about it-- the history, the design features, the molding and trim and stamped tin ceilings. I love thinking about how many people have lived and loved here, what changes happened as the city sprawled and devoured this area, all of it ( Read more... )

In honor of my birthday, which was yesterday, I'm going to name five idiosyncrasies of mine, from a meme that's going around.

idiosyncrasy: a peculiarity of constitution or temperament : an individualizing characteristic or quality1. While I am willing to eat corn (especially on the cob), and carrots (raw only), there is not one vegetable that I ( Read more... )

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian ( Read more... )

I just had a double-whammy sickening experience ( Read more... )

My sister-in-law went to a very expensive, private, all-girls school here in the city, which incidentally my sister will be working at this fall. This school costs 18K per kid, from kindergarden to twelfth grade. It's that kind of school ( Read more... )

After all the classes, books, discussions ( Read more... )

When you can't tear yourself away from the Toddler Clothing listings on eBay, even though you haven't eaten a real dinner yet and it's almost 10 PM ( Read more... )