We had an earthquake today, a very respectable 5.8 centered in Virginia a bit south of DC. Nightmares, here I come! The whole thing was worse because Emily was in school, so I couldn't get in touch with her, and Megan was in our house by herself. Stress! We are well, all is well, and the soothing iced green tea latter I made when I got home did ( Read more... )

As if I needed further evidence of my lack of girlhood-the Gender Genie thinks I write like a man! At least when I’m blogging.

Although my fiction is evidently feminine.

My nonfiction is overwhelmingly masculine.

Weird, huh? One wonders what this says about me. Especially since the Genie claims to get it right 80 percent of the time!

Plug some of your ( Read more... )

Fact: Fresh blueberries and yogurt are the best flavor combination of summer; divine with Greek yogurt and honey, but also extremely delicious with nonfat, no-sugar vanilla yogurt. Frozen blueberries in the middle of winter won't do, for some reason. This only works when the blueberries are fresh ( Read more... )

I have had a very, very, very busy and frantic week-not dissimilar from many others I’ve had over the past year. At work, I was trying to finish the big magazine: make people finish their writing assignments, make people give me their corporate ads, make the new web software we use for photo lightboxes work. Argh. And on top of that, I’ve had ( Read more... )

Work. Work work work work work ( Read more... )

Happy International Women's Day to all my sisters. I'm curious to see if Egypt's women are successful in managing to get a little more liberty and respect for themselves, post-Mubarak, and if women across the Arab world in general can wrangle better living conditions for themselves and their daughters. It would be great if all the world's women had ( Read more... )

I had already had a long day--( Read more... )

It's been a difficult week, one in a series. But Bleach 438, instead of making me groan and clutch my head, actually made me give a little cheer. Is Orihime finally getting in touch with her righteous anger? That would please me immensely. I've been wanting her to do that for YEARS. Oh, happy day. She doesn't even need to pull out the hairpins. ( Read more... )

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Two hour delay due to a slick of ice on the roads. Argh, winter, go away!

In Iran, it is now illegal to teach people how to cook non-Iranian food.

There’s going to be a “nurse-in” at a fancy, fancy sculpture museum to draw attention to the right to breast-feed in public. Sounds like performance art to me.

Bittman says “eat real food.” Dude, not ( Read more... )