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a compilation
Hello people, it's about time for a story, or an update, but I don't currently have that for you. What I do have is a summary, compiled by me, of the events of the Prop 8 trial currently being deliberated by the supreme court. I wrote the summary for my own edification, but it turned out sort of good, and a couple people have asked me what's going ( Read more... ) -
A story, to celebrate the vernal equinox: Persephone the spring maiden, as told by me.
Zeus loved lovin. There almost wasn’t anything he loved more, except maybe ruling. But actually, he didn’t love that all that much. He always had to be poked and prodded to do things, but oh boy, you did not want to be there when he thought someone else was trying to rule. Temper, temper. Anyway, like I said, he loved lovin.
So happens that one of ( Read more... ) -
On enemies and Purim
Last Shabbat we read a special maftir, out of a second Torah. (Maftir is a short paragraph read at the end of the Torah reading service on Shabbat, and is usually a repeat of the last bit of the week's portion.) It was Amalek. "Remember what the Amalek did to you*," It starts out, and then goes on about how they attacked the Israelites on their way ( Read more... ) -
"shopping" list for the library
Until this afternoon, I hadn't been to the library in ages. I mean, absolutely ages. I was fresh out of new books to read, and it was very sad. So when today I had about 45 minuts free during the time when the library was open, I grabbed them! But I knew I wanted more, and more varied, books than a normal library trip could yeild in that limited ( Read more... ) -
Yom Kippur
This story has been done before ( Read more... ) -
Seasons as dictated by geographical location
Allow me to tell you, friends, about the seasons of my childhood ( Read more... ) -
New Orleans! ALA! Excitement!
My parents sent me to the American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans this past weekend for my 25th birthday ( Read more... ) -
The princess and the race issue
curlybopbop and I watched disney's The Princess and the Frog last night. By watched, I mean part watched, part snarked, part skipped the boring bits. And I know that probably everyone else has already said these things, but it was interesting to see how the disney princess has changed, and how it hasn't. (I'll probably write about Tangled after I've seen it ( Read more... )