Very eye-opening article in the NY Times which focusses on the plight of women and girls particularly in the third world and the importance of helping them as a way of alleviating the effects of third world poverty in general.

The global statistics on the abuse of girls are numbing. It appears that more girls and women are now missing from the ( Read more... )

Been eating super healthy vegetarian meals lately and tons and tons of fruit. As I type this I'm eating a wrap with portobella mushroom, hummos, spinach, onion, and tomato, with a side of grapes and herbal iced tea.

So tonight I'm shakin' it up with a beef roast. I haven't really been craving meat at all during this pregnancy (I do crave a lot of ( Read more... )

UPDATE:

My summer job at Congreso is awesome and I'm taking lots of pic and will eventually put up a big post about our progress on Humanist Mom and link to it here. The only downside is that there is all this extra paperwork to deal with which came up after the program started and all us instructors are going a little crazy, but hey, what else is ( Read more... )

Fauxhawk is getting too long and falling flat. As soon as I can fit 5 little beads on a lock of hair I'm buzzing and bleaching the shit out of the whole damn thing. Gotta anyway - that is my typical summer hairdo ( Read more... )

First, I wrote in my "real" blog yesterday. Read it here.

Second, I will be exhibiting at the Highwire Gallery in a group exhibition with the Northwest Artists Collective June 5-28. The piece selected for this show is "Girl In Red Dress", a never exhibited before 18" x 36" color woodcut completed last year while fullfilling a residency at Artcroft ( Read more... )

Just watched Mos Def and Christopher Hitchens arguing about al-Quaeda.

It was slightly entertaining and certainly interesting to see that conversation. But I found myself wanting to hear what the conversation would turn out to be if they hadn't been permitting to talk all over each other like that and had a proper moderator to force each of them to ( Read more... )

And now, in addition to feeling better, I wrote in my Humanist Mom blog

I lost lots of income from September-December of 2008 because of city-wide cuts to anti-truancy programs that the Mural Arts program that I work for was serving. I currently am teaching through Mural Arts again, but not truants because we couldn't find any anti-truancy after school programs to offer our arts education classes to. Instead I'm ( Read more... )

Hurrah! I have developed a recipe for whole wheat, vegan Irish Soda bread that tastes awesome!!! One of the many recipes I plan to be able to hand down to my kids. Those of you with bread makers try this out ( Read more... )

The latest on marriage for nonreligious folks in PA

And my email to the ACLU:

I am a Humanist celebrant in Pennsylvania and I just read this article in the Inquirer about the marriage controversy:

I've read a couple stories before about this issue and I've tried to get information from various sources about how this might impact me as a celebrant ( Read more... )