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Need Audiobook Advice
Long time, no post. But other than the LMB itself, I don't know of anywhere else online where I've got access to a greater number of Bujold fans than right here ( Read more... ) -
This Looks Like Fun
*nods* to mmegaera, from whose journal I borrowed it ( Read more... ) -
Another Goal Reached
When one has a chronic and life-threatening illness, one lives with the awareness of wondering "Is this the last time I will ______ (have a birthday? enjoy Christmas? laugh with my daughter?)" more than other people probably do. Of course, none of us are guaranteed any particular length of life; I know that, as I'm sure we all do. But. Still. Not ( Read more... ) -
Adventures in Voting
I have always voted on Election Day. Never early, never absentee. I just like the process--the polling places, the curtained booths, the little old blue-haired ladies sitting guard over those precious registration books. (And you know if anyone were to threaten the sacred process, those frail old women would turn into screaming Valkyries with the ( Read more... ) -
Not Only Yeah, but Hell, Yeah!
I haven't posted in... good grief, well over a year... but when I saw this today in friend Toraks's lj, I knew I had to participate:
Copy this sentence into your LiveJournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.If I were half so eloquent as the brilliant ( Read more... ) -
Sister SunLizzard is having surgery tomorrow morning
Hola, mis compadres lindos ( Read more... ) -
It Looked Like Fun.....
I filled this out for DesertVixen, and promised I'd post it in my journal as well. So, let's see what happens ( Read more... ) -
Blog Against Racism Week
The following is taken from the memoir "Sky of Stone" by Homer Hickam. In this scene, a 4th of July celebration in Coalwood, West Virginia, the Rev. Richard, a Black minister, gives the invocation. This is how Homer remembers that prayer.Dear Lord, we are gathered here to celebrate not just the independence of our great land, but also the document ( Read more... )