My kids are just as smart and kind and awesome as fuck.  Sometimes I look around and feel sorry for every other parent in the world because they don't have these kids.  That is all.

I cannot believe I have spent so much time this week arguing with people about that Duck Dynasty idiot. I am somewhat concerned that otherwise reasonable people who I call friends a)think the homophobic and racist bullshit he's been saying (and there's a lot more than was in that interview) is just hunky dory and b)don't actually understand what ( Read more... )

Today Jesse and I went down to Tulsa Tech to see if any of the classes for the pre-engineering program there would transfer as college credits at Tulsa Community College.  They didn't seem to know, but we got a number to call to find out.  Their classes don't typically transfer to colleges, but they have cooperative agreements with some of the ( Read more... )

So young Jesse will be directing two different one-act plays this summer as a project for Clark Theatre. He just finished up a stint stage managing Time Stands Still, an award-nominated adult show at Heller Theatre and he's about to go on stage in Oliver! at the Tulsa PAC. By the time he starts his junior year of high school, he will have acted ( Read more... )

"Atheists are routinely asked how people will know not to rape and murder without religion telling them not to do it, especially a religion that backs up the orders with threats of hell. Believers, listen to me carefully when I say this: When you use this argument, you terrify atheists. We hear you saying that the only thing standing between you ( Read more... )

I broke 160 lbs for the first time in, well, ever. I was at 159 when I got up this morning. I have since gone to Hideaway Pizza and eaten about 3 lbs of food and feel super bloated, but I'm still counting it as progress.

There's an exciting collaborative playwriting project going on in my town, for a handful of youth to work with an established playwright for one-on-one mentoring and also to develop a play together to be put on in February. It's put on by an established theatre company and the Arts and Humanities Council, so not some fly by night thing. Anyway, I ( Read more... )

Jesse asked me if he could have some money to buy used paperbacks of some Kurt Vonnegut books, because all he can find at home are Welcome to the Monkey House and God Bless You Mr. Rosewater ( Read more... )

I went and removed a bunch of abandoned journals and some people with whom I clearly do not have a connection. It's pretty superfluous, of course, because there are only a few people I interact with here anyway, but it seems neater this way.

Confession time: I bought some "dry shampoo" from Lush and have been using to extend the time I can go without washing my hair. I need to wash it every other day, but now I'm washing it every 3rd day. I think my hair is always healthier the less I wash it, but I normally can't stand how limp it looks by that third day. This stuff is working out ( Read more... )