Oh, Sandra D., how we were always taught to admire you. No, not for your pig tails, your pink jackets, or your poodle skirts - though your recent actions were as equally naive and silly -but for acheiving what no other woman had done before. You were the first, the best, the lone ranger on a conservative court, the one who's championed woman's ( Read more... )

...but in trivial news, I just made my finest attempt today in being a good Ecuadorian wife (!). (er...um, yeah.)I just finished making consome de pollo with a main dish of sango de camarones con mani y coco...I will of course need to fritar some patacones and then maybe top it off with some fresh pineapple juice...and then wala! a complete ( Read more... )

This article is very inspiring. Ever since I heard the story about a judge assigning gang rape as a form of justice for somebody else's crime, the thought has made me more than just a little physically ill. Here's an example that maybe 'good things' CAN come out of a 'terrible situation'... Leave a comment  2 

Can anyone let me know how to post pics on livejournal? Is there a way to just upload them or do you have to post a link to a website (which I don't have)?

Confession time:

I am a strong, confident, independent female, and yet... I really don't like Ani di Franco (except for little plastic castle). really. she actually quite annoys me. end of confession.

I told myself I was not going to get back into this livejournaling/message board thing, but yet here I am doing it. oh well. I am scared though in a way, because I realized I lost so much of life for 2-3 year period being a voyeuristic nobody, reading about everyone else's life and not doing anything with my own. He asked me that question this ( Read more... )

Well, here I am in Cuenca, Ecuador, four months after I arrived. What a long, strange trip it´s been. I´m here solo for the first time, Klever stayed in the finca to sacar madera, and I´m here taking care of my suegra who has been chronically ill. The only thing we know so far is that she has Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, apart from that it´s ( Read more... )

Three weeks from TODAY I will be boarding the plane. Three weeks! At 23h55 we take off for the first leg of our twenty-one hour journey, first stopping in Tejas at 0600. It seems very surreal...I've been talking about this trip for so long, it seems to hard believe it's happening. K is beside himself, ecstatic...I'm excited, too...but it feels ( Read more... )

Well, I did it. Bought two tickets to South America. Excited, and yet scared shitless at the same time....Will I look back on this day (well, three days ago, actually) as a major turning point in my life? One of those fateful days that decides which fork in the road I will take? Only time will tell...sometimes I feel like I made that turn ( Read more... )

So Bush is actually coming around on his immigration policy! Amnesty for undocumented workers, support for the underclass...could this really be true? Is he really putting the 'compassion' in compassionate conservatism?

Sadly, I'm afraid, what appears to good to be true...is too good to be true.

Sure, they say on the news, that he's giving legal ( Read more... )