Maybe I need to stop trying to add on something extra. I already have a lot of projects on top of homemaking, but I have so many interests and ideas that it's hard not to waste time on half-baked ideas.

I'm just getting restless because I'm not on a long-term assignment. Fall semester hasn't even started yet, so I shouldn't worry about day-to-day ( Read more... )

Boys' need to break things is not a moral failing.

Just read that the ancient/medieval Indian (India Indian) people accurately calculated the speed of light. Can that be true? Also have seen carvings that clearly show they were aware of sperm and egg and other anatomical, medical stuff. Can this be true? What parts of human history are buried and allusive? It really seems like at least some ( Read more... )

It's funny how even as things change, they stay the same. While patriarchy seems to be on the wane in many ways, the basic form seems to take shape in everyday life. Hierarchies shape themselves and refuse to be demolished - not that I'm complaining. I'm enjoying a glorious scene this morning/noontide and participating in that scene in my own ( Read more... )

I need a job that does not cause me constant physical pain and constant emotional distress.

Maybe I could make a website that lists all of the gardens, parks, nurseries, and farms of Los Angeles (city). Like, literally, all of them. Then, I could visit each one, take photos and blog about what they're like. I should include a link the Google Maps to help people locate them. There are a lot of websites and articles about some gardens or ( Read more... )

I can't remember the exact source, but I recently read that proto-feminists in the late 19th century were fighting for the right to co-ownership of property owned by their husbands. Married women couldn't own anything. Their husbands owned everything even though women were contributing vital skilled labor to maintain the functioning of the home.

A ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about blogging for at least 10 years. What has stopped me? So many things. Picking out a name for the blog. Deciding what it is going to be about. Choosing between WordPress, Wix, etc. Wondering if it will be "successful" or worth my time and effort. I think people blog because they need to blog. Just like professional dancers ( Read more... )

Working with kids and reading about psychology in general, I have often come across the notion that "all feelings are ok to feel, but you can't always act on those feelings." This seems fine on the surface, but it clashes with ideas about emotions that people had one or two hundred years ago, or maybe even 70, 60, or 50 years ago.

In most of the ( Read more... )

I think I'm starting to become a better wife. I let go of the emotional baggage from my past (sexual trauma, feminism) and fully embraced the partnership and my true purpose which is to be a wife. Not just legally a wife, by a wife in spirit. Every facet of my life ultimately supports my husband in some way. Our marriage, our partnership, is my ( Read more... )