Monique White negotiated a new, affordable loan with her mortgage bank. Thank you to everyone who called, emailed, forwarded, etc. And respect to Monique, she showed tremendous fortitude and grace through the whole thing - not to mention moving out of the individual, private shame of foreclosure into public community solidarity. Her victory will ( Read more... )

Hey guys, I know I haven't posted in forever, and if you read my facebook you've seen this anyway ( Read more... )

SIX NAMES YOU GO BY ( Read more... )

I watched Hoarders with Katie when we were in Milwaukee and now i've been lost in the TWoP forums about them and a bunch of hoarding links ( Read more... )

Dear FlyLady ( Read more... )

Tomatos & Tomatillos that I put in the reading porch just before OMG First Snow, are getting ripe. YAY!

So the potatos in the tires did not make tons of potatos. We now have 2-3x as many potatos as we started out with, I think. Maybe slightly more ( Read more... )

Mostly because I'm organizing & purging my bookmarks, this is the first of a series. These are "the personal is the political" things, not politics-as-sport ( Read more... )

I can't even really describe all of the acts: there were people in the air on rings, on trapezes, on a three-person trapeze, hanging by their necks and hanging by their feet and swinging up until they could push off the ceiling and do somersaults...there was fire juggling and dancing and contortionists and Chinese Dragons. Mulan was in there and ( Read more... )

the voiceover for the current round of OMG CANADIAN STYLE MEDICINE ads sounds suspiciously like the voice of the OMG MEDICARE DRUG COVERAGE ads of a few years ago.