come find me at the sunflower patch ( Read more... )

There was nothing but the sound of dim street lights and the clicking of my heals on the wet cement. It was too cold for insects and not cold enough for the cotton-deaf sound of snow all around. No cars. No people. Just breathing and walking. I was left to wonder about where I would be in that other world. Right now, probably propped up in bed ( Read more... )

I would like to comment on one more aspect of this patriarch we live in that really eats me up... Professional Attire. You probably weren't expecting it but recently it has come to the surface again just how ingrained the puritanical patriarchy is among women today. That, and how much women v. women hate there is among colleagues. You'd think by ( Read more... )

She's been following me for weeks. I've only caught glimpses of her... peeking over the back of the couch, shutting the closet door as I enter the room, tucking herself into the shadows of a corner... but I know she's there. I can feel how she watches me with my back turned and how she follows me even though she's afraid of where I might go. She is ( Read more... )

I recently purchased the "Annotated Cat: Under the Hat of Seuss and his Cats" and it says in the introduction that his wife was not able to have children. At first this seems cruel that someone who so enjoyed children would not be able to have children when there are too many parents out there who wish they never had any. Then I realized that not ( Read more... )

I would like to comment on the McCain's new campaign against Obama as being too much of a celebrity by pointing out that Reagan, the Govenator, and several other actual celebrities, most of which have been Republican, have been voted into government offices in the U.S. in the past. No one can honestly tell me that the action hero turned Governor ( Read more... )

 Last night at about 1am my grandmother passed away. I was standing at the foot of her hospital bed next to my mom, across from my aunt when she took her last breath. I have been to many funerals, I have watched several people fading away due to illness, I have held many animals while they took their last breath but I have never been there for a ( Read more... )

Pacing among the books ( Read more... )

If you've never thought about it before now is the time. I know there are lots of environmental issues that seem out of reach or just so damn complicated that one person really can't make all that much difference but this is one issue you can see for yourself improve. It's the business of invasive non-native plants replacing native plants creating ( Read more... )

The author of this morbidly hilarious memoir is Shawn Decker, a celebrity in the AIDS community and a co-educator with his wife about the issues he has dealt with since childhood. Not only does his sense of humor seriously appeal to me (I swear I dated this guy only his name was Jon not Shawn) but seeing as I have a background in education, LGBT ( Read more... )