I learned in seventh grade about Ben Franklin's elaborate self-improvement matrix and I frequently come up with some new method of examining everything that isn't working in my life and fixing it all up.  I like to make charts more than make changes, though.  But just right now I'm beginning to work on coming to awareness, honoring my intution, ( Read more... )

The first weekend of Spring finds our heroine in non-stop exuberant celebration. The equinox corresponded with Easter this year and hence the anniversary of our Big Love, which we celebrate on Easter whenever it falls. Our social circle chose this weekend to burst into flower after winter dormancy as well. I’m exhausted and a little less than ( Read more... )

This meme is going around, time to chime in...

As a feminist, especially in the postmodern third-wave storm that was raging when I cut my teeth in the movement, I've spent a lot of time working with privilege -- identifying and acknowledging, working out the guilt people often feel when examining the relationship between the unearned benefits I ( Read more... )

Snapshot of my current-cy…

Miss T calls me “the lesbian Martha Stewart” and while I have no love for that specific princess of WASP culture, it sometimes fits.  I like to make food and crafts which tend toward the sphere of Home, and I love to do it up big and Special every time.  In keeping with WASP tradition, I blame my mother for this.  I ( Read more... )

I don't know how to start this post.  What do I say that doesn't sound like a huge dire crisis but conveys how freaked out I am?  I don't even know how freaked out I am.  How I feel about the situation changes like a hot flash -- burly, unpredictable sadness rushing through my bloodstream, I feel it swell until it pushes out of my pores, and then ( Read more... )

I am wearing my thrift store brand new top today. Thanks to my learnings through the T. M. Build-A-Femme program, of which I am an avid student, it's washable, not faded nor pilled (still had tags, even), in style in the last two years, and does not need ironing. It also has a v-neck and a band of fabric under my boobs, creating a modified empire ( Read more... )

Here's the story for real. It's too weird to think this happened, I have to write it like a story. Too scary ( Read more... )

details tomorrow. we're fine, we need to tuck each other in now. tomorrow.

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