I was reading and giggling over The 37 Most Awkward English Fails You Can Only Find In Asia, and was suddenly reminded of the time that I traveled to Turkey and Greece with my family in the summer of 1992. It was my first time visiting any part of Asia. At one point we were in Cappadocia, a region noted for its otherworldly (and very phallic) fairy ( Read more... )

Monday's horrible news of the murders of a rabbi and three Jewish children in Toulouse, France shook loose a memory of casual, but chilling, anti-Semitism that I experienced several years ago. I'm not sure why, exactly, as the degree of difference can be measured in orders of magnitude, but it's bugging me and so I'm recording it here in hopes that ( Read more... )

I've been tracking the responses on cereta's post "On men and rape" since there was only one page of comments. I know a bunch of my own friends have been reading, and some have been participating. There's been a lot of food for thought in the post and in comments, and it's frankly one of the most well-moderated, least acrimonious LJ discussions of this ( Read more... )

New Zealand, 1998
Rarotonga, 1998
Hawaii, 1998-99
Joshua Tree National Park, 1999
England and Wales, 1999
London, 2000

Wow. I did a lot of travelling in a fairly short period. I miss that.

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I just got a save-the-date note for a wedding this coming May. Back in high school I used to babysit for the bride-to-be and her brothers. I still remember the first time I babysat them. The bride-to-be was 3 years old. She cried inconsolably for about 2 straight hours upon seeing her parents leave the house, too. :-}

Ayup, I'm officially old!

To all those who were touched in some way by the tragic events of September 11, 2001, peace be upon you.

To all those who would cynically exploit those events for personal or political gain, shame on you.