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The Family
For the past week, I've been reading this book:
www.amazon.com/Family-Secret-Fundamentalism-Heart-American/dp/0060560053/ref=sr_1_1
The Family
The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
by Jeff Sharlet
First off, anyone who knows me even distantly, surely knows that my politics are on the left of the spectrum. I voted for Obama, knowing he ( Read more... ) -
Georgia and Tennessee
I just got back from eight days in the South. It was great, fun, and finally, exhausting.
Days 1-3: Roswell, GA. This is where my sister, the author of Right Sides Together, lives. She's got a little garden, and grows a few of these, in addition to peppers, okra, and green beans:
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Crows
A week and a half ago, we had a minor earthquake, which we felt pretty strongly here in Long Beach. Nothing serious in the house, just a few bottles fell out of the medicine cabinets, and some pictures were awry. Then, we stepped out the back door to find 3 baby crows cowering on our deck. They'd been thrown out of the 60' ash tree where their nest ( Read more... ) -
How did I spend the weekend?
Friday:
I went to The Wine Country for a tasting of Burgundy: Domaine de Montille and Duex Montille. They are two winemakers who are a brother and sister. The brother makes reds, the sister whites. They were lovely. We had a total of 8 wines, and I bought 2. The red, 2006 Domaine de Montille Beaune Premier Cru "Les Perrieres", has a light, ( Read more... ) -
Valentine's Day
I've been immersed in the world of wine lately. On Friday evening, I attended a Champagne seminar at The Wine Country, a shop in Signal Hill, about a mile from my house. This involves sitting at a table with other aficionados, and tasting 10 different wines. It's great fun. The seminar lasts about 2 hours, and then groups of us buy bottles to take ( Read more... ) -
This is what got left off the program.
Video of V. Gene Robinson's invocation yesterday. This was apparently too scandalous for broadcast. Whatever.
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Bless Us With Anger
Yeah, I'm angry.
This week has been a rollercoaster. I feel like my relationship with my country is one of those dysfunctional ones discussed in an advice column. I'm angry about Rick Warren being given a plum spot in the inauguration. My feelings were smoothed out by interviews with V. Gene Robinson, the gay Episcopal bishop, who urged GLBT's to ( Read more... ) -
2009 - back to reality
The rhythm of the holidays and non-holidays in interesting to me. The reason I think about it as much as I do, is that I work in the school system, where everyone looks forward to this time off, which comes one month before the end of the first semester of the year. Our schedule is very fragmented, a relic of old ways of educating kids. We start in ( Read more... )
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