There but for the grace of the public sector go I
Humpty Dumpty and I are peeps. Well, kinda. I, too, had a great fall. But while all the King's horses and all the King's men were busy working on the egg, I had an entire team of public sector...
View ArticleMy mother's books
This is a story that piggy-backs on three generations. When I was a child, coming into some sense of family consciousness and history in the late 1960's and early 1970's, my mother used to tell me...
View ArticleMotherhood by choice -- In all its depth and breadth and height
I've been pro-choice all my life, or at least all my life since I've known about the issue, which for me dates back to the original Roe v. Wade decision. Roe v. Wade was decided at about the same...
View ArticleThe Lingering Effects of Unemployment
A co-worker of mine asked me to go along while she shopped for a new outfit recently. Our end of fiscal year bonuses had come through recently (yes, I work for an agency that still gives those!) and...
View ArticleReflections on the Day: August 6
There are some things for which silence may be better suited than words as a means of expression. I think that may be true for August 6 and 9. Any words I come up with seem inadequate; a single...
View ArticleToday I am a Small Town Girl
This is a story that could only take place in a small town. Probably only. At least, that's the comfortable self-delusion I'm wrapping myself up in and I won't be letting it go for the duration of...
View ArticleThe Kitchen Archive
Sometimes I feel like a walking treatment for the next reality series. I am what some, often disdainfully, refer to as the family archivist--the memory keeper if you will, to both borrow and blaspheme...
View ArticleFrom the Margins: A Different Take on the Daily Kos Community
I am a lousy salesperson. I'll leave that part to others better suited to the task. Let me note only that while Markos and the staff set out on this subscription drive to have each of us discuss the...
View ArticleTendrils
Something less than diary-like here, more like fragmented musings to try and find a way out of something. Depression is teasing at the margins of my brain these days, tendrils of it reaching across my...
View ArticleFour Weddings and a Glass of Cheap White Wine
Seems I can only consider the former when the latter is at hand. Welcome to my night: It's raining; I'm fighting off depression and my brain needs to focus on something none-too complicated. I'm...
View ArticleWary of the Day, but Respectful of the Emotion
The President took the First Lady out to dinner at the restaurant down the street from me. My friend who works in a different restaurant kitchen just called me to say that the entire evening was crazy...
View ArticleIt's the Democracy, stupid
This is my rant. After Susan G. Komen Foundation, myriad attacks on Planned Parenthood, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Catholic Bishops and legions of health care and social work professionals...
View ArticleAlone
Strange word, in many ways: simple, ya know, but not, if you dig down--or stop to think. It quickly becomes complicated once you start to feel it. It's a keyword in popular music, and big on the...
View ArticleSometimes...
ghosts visit. They don't really manifest themselves, they just lodge in my consciousness. Other times they simply whisper in my ear. Laughter mostly comprises the bulk of my audio memories; it's what...
View ArticleThe Strange Political Spectator Sport: Other People's Marriages
I gave up commenting on other people's marriages the day I realized that brother-in-law had become a code word in my family for "the born again jackass who's too stupid to know that he's dumber than...
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A Tale of Two Short Stories: Thoughts about Writing and Not Writing
Tools of the trade, or merely nostalgia? I want to tell you about two short stories, neither of which were ever actually written, at least not in any lasting format. Each of these stories has many...
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Propane Project: Cash-Strapped Progressives Unite!!
Money. ::sigh:: It seems it always comes down to money. What's a cash-strapped progressive to do?As long as I have been aware of my political tendencies and have voiced them in some kind of active...
View ArticleThinking Out Loud
Have you ever gone to one of those "today in history" websites, or newspaper items, to check out what happened on the day you were born?I haven't.Because ever since my 8th birthday, history entered my...
View ArticleStaying Power
Is it just me, or does the idea of a Ten Year Plan for a Blog seem odd?Today's my orange anniversary: ten years ago tonight I made my first comment as a gilas girl in a post from billmon.For every UID,...
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Adult Siblings
your inner child today is nothing like the kid you were...--my little sis, after several glasses of wine and three days of family hellFor years, I've been plagued by a contradiction in my life I can't...
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Four Yellow Roses
Not Victorian, but flower symbolism just the same We had to fight to get them in there, but when we finally said good-bye to my sister, there were four yellow roses there. A bit of silliness, perhaps,...
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When is a Birthday more than a Birthday?
A day to honor the wisdom and vision of Mathama Gandhi Today is International Day of Non-Violence, an official commemoration of the United Nations. The observance falls on the anniversary of Mahatma...
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