I don't post here very much; and I admit when I do it's often stress venting or asking for help. Or advice, recommendations, etc ( Read more... )

Because I don't have enough to deal with today - I've learned my birth family has resumed their efforts to track me down. A gentle reminder to all who know me that they have been repeatedly asked not to contact me and that *anyone* with a legitimate reason to be looking for me already knows at least one way to contact me ( Read more... )

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Rant mode on for a minute. Particularly in this time of year, when gratitude is encouraged to be at a high, there's been a ton of posting of those "inspirational" word graphics to the effect of "There are people who would love to have your bad days", "There are people who would give anything to have your problems", etc. Yeah. I freaking hate them ( Read more... )

I have written about this publicly on Twitter and privately (ish) on Facebook, but have neglected so far to post about it here. This is the summary I wrote up on my college's unofficial/underground private Facebook group, to try to get a take on what people wholly disconnected from the situation would think about it ( Read more... )

I still detest the idea of "never forget", because that implies that anyone ever could, or would. And it has to be okay, healthy, to carry on in the memory of tragedy ( Read more... )

Last updated 7/26/12

2012

Definite:

8/3-8/11 - Pennsic 41
8/31-9/3 - Harper's Retreat, Stonemarche
9/15 - Four Tourneys and an Investiture, Bergental
10/13 - Coronation, Concordia
10/27 - Crown Tournament, Endewearde

Tentative:

9/7-9/9 - Feast of John Barleycorn, Northpass
9/21-9/23 - Freimarkt Fair, Bridge

So, a good discussion has been started already on how to address sexual harrassment in the SCA, and I really hope it grows. But I think one step has been left out and it's really the important one.

Step 1: Believe the person who tells you that they are being harrassed.I am serious. In any group of people where harrassment is or may be occurring, ( Read more... )

I would like to get a conversation going about what we in the SCA can and should do about stalkers and abusers who come to events and harrass or intimidate others, whether premeditated (made a deliberate plan to show up and intimidate a given person) or spur of the moment (saw a given person at an event and decided on the spot to intimidate them). ( Read more... )

A heads up to those with kids who might have lingering hurricane concerns, or just anyone who likes Sesame Street: Tomorrow (Friday) is a special episode in which a hurricane has swept through Sesame Street and everyone is working together to clean up the neighborhood ( Read more... )