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I feel Validated
I have just finished reading... I have to call it The Best Reading Experience I've had in years ( Read more... ) -
Work, work and more work
I just totaled up the hours, and in the last eight days, Fiona and I have together put in a total of forty-eight man-hours dealing with grass, mostly in the back 1.5 acres; mowing it, raking it into piles and hauling the piles away. There’s also been a lot of weed-pulling, largely of that nasty and aptly named ‘catchweed’ (Galium aparine) that ( Read more... ) -
The Messy Details
So those few of you who are interested in all the messy details of what’s been happening in my home life and why I’m legally separating from Andrew, my husband of nineteen years: It’s a long, LONG story. Nearly as long as our marriage was, really…
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Thanks
My thanks to those of you who commented with support and sympathy on my last post; I really do appreciate it. I've felt so alone in this, for so very long; it's good to know there are still people out there who care ( Read more... ) -
The Big News
So, it’s been another Very Long Time since I’ve updated this, hasn’t it ( Read more... ) -
notes from panel speech
At the convention, Doppleganger and D.Taina had both said they couldn't attend the Monday panel on Writing Fanfiction but hoped that someone would tape it and put it on YouTube later. I don't recall anyone taping it, so here's the best I can do for you folks and for anyone else who had to miss it; post my notes on the various topics I covered or ( Read more... ) -
Words of wisdom
Quoting from a Q&A session with Bill Moyers:
Q: What role do you think religion should have in the public arena?
A: Whose religion? Christian? Muslim? Jew? Sikh? Buddhist? Catholic? Protestant? Shi'ite? Sunni? Orthodox? Conservative? Mormon? Amish? Wicca? For that matter, which Baptist? Bill Clinton or Pat Robertson? Newt Gingrich or Al Gore? And who ( Read more... ) -
coexistence
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while now; just didn’t take the time to do so until today.
My husband is extremely choosy about bumper stickers. For years, he wanted no bumper stickers at all on any of our vehicles; nothing cute or funny or declaring an eclectic interest or fandom. But a while ago I found a pair of bumper stickers that ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
This has all been said before, but in light of the recent Supreme Court ruling, I think it bears repeating.
Imagine this:
You’re at home one day and you hear a knock on the door. You answer it to find a man in a wheelchair parked on your doorstep; he looks deathly ill. And he says to you, “Brace yourself for a shock; I’m your older brother. And I ( Read more... ) -
Imagine this...
That temp job I had involved 12-hour days and lots of walking; I’d put in several miles per day of walking back and forth between production sites. And I did some thinking while I was walking, about several different issues. This is the first essay that I mostly composed in my head while walking. More should follow later, when I have time to type ( Read more... )