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Update
Marriage: Brian and I continue to be very happy. I want to stress to those who were worried I just jumped into this, it's the best move I ever made. He's sweet and attentive and funny and handy and awesome.
Step Daughter/Move: Her drop dead date to get the rest of her things out is August 2, one year after she closed. We have company using the ( Read more... ) -
If you ever find the perfect church...
About a month ago our tiny church was shut down by the (diocese, regional whatever?) and we've been church hopping, looking for a new home. Maybe this was just as well: since moving to the South I've not made a lot of women friends my age so I am hoping to find some in a new, larger congregation ( Read more... ) -
Spinning straw into gold
Stardate: December 2012. My husband, bcthies, got a call from a client whose legacy computer was down. A manufacturing operation would grind to a halt unless it was replaced within 24-48 hours. The client's IT department had thrown up their hands in exasperation: could Brian help with their Pentium 1? Upgrading to a modern machine would cost the company $ ( Read more... ) -
Dear Ten Year Old Child Who Shook My Fence in Frustration
Dear Ten Year Old Child Who Shook My Fence in Frustration,
This summer, you were on the small hill next to our front yard, looking at our car, our house, our garden. There was some contrast: your great aunt is renting a house next to ours. We own our house free and clear. Your great aunt works in a department store; her position is easily filled by ( Read more... ) -
Review: Ender’s Game
Ender's Game lived up to my very high expectations, almost as well Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings adaptation (particularly movie one), and that’s saying something. The film caught the essence of the iconic SF novel, while taking a few liberties with the details to fit the book into the moving picture medium. There were even references to later ( Read more... ) -
Well, it worked.
My staying off social media, and mostly offline, for a month allowed a number of things ( Read more... ) -
Southern Living: Numerical (and other odd) Place Names
Remember the speed trap I ran into in North, SC? Well I just ran across another odd name of a local town. Ninety Six. Ninety Six? There's a town northwest of us with that numerical place name. It's just just east of the town Due West. The town of Six Mile is north of them, as is the tiny village of Eighteen Mile Creek ( Read more... ) -
"What We Talk About When We Talk About Con Harassment" by Jared Axelrod
A dude talks about how guys should deal with sexual harassment at cons. Excellent essay.
I find it utterly fascinating that this sort of thing is no longer being tolerated in silence simultaneously with a very public anti-bullying
crusade. Perhaps we, as a culture, are waking up. -
Woman in 3D
In this article, "I was a Manic Pixie Dream Girl," a Dr. Who fan talks about one of the alternatives film and novels give young women as an alternative to the rather one-dimensional objectified Blonde Bombshell. Typified by the Doctor's companions, at one time she modeled herself on the rather two-dimensional Manic Pixie Dream Girl. It's a ( Read more... ) -
I hope you've read this
If you've not seen it, may I recommend Genevieve Valentine's excellent post, "Dealing with It," on her blog. In it, she list the indignities of merely being female and how you are treated differently for being a girl, a young woman.
"These are not the assaults, the beatings, the rapes. These are not the traumas. These are small things, mostly; they ( Read more... )