Saw a red-tail hawk from my living room window Tuesday morning. So I snapped a few photos from my couch while nearly shitting myself with excitement.


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First: Happy Birthday to shbe!

Second: the actual birthday day sucked ASS for me, but not through the entire day. Got to talk to my mom, which was happy-making. Got to talk to my sister, who never fails to cheer me up in her own special way of purposefully sharing all the shit that's gone wrong in her own life. She's sweet like that. optimystik got home and ( Read more... )

Even Babies Discriminate, from Newsweek via Anti-Racist Parent

Is it really so difficult to talk with children about race when they're very young? What jumped out at Phyllis Katz, in her study of 200 black and white children, was that parents are very comfortable talking to their children about gender, and they work very hard to counterprogram ( Read more... )

While journal hopping recently, I came across this post of sweetness that illustrated to me how closely related we primates really are.

They are just like us, and we are just like them... in so many ways.

So there's a local photographer, who is supposedly really well-known (and oft-plagiarized/copied), who is doing a coffeetable book on the beauty of breastfeeding. I emailed him, telling him (his wife, actually, who is his business manager) I would be willing to model for them. I was responding to a call for models that had been forwarded to me. ( Read more... )

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here be photos of our li'l guy

Yay! New Week = More Depressing Posts! Woot!

Casaubon's Book: 52 Weeks Down - Week 9 - Deplasticize Your LifeLiving Plastic Free in 2007: http://plasticfree.blogspot.com/Read more... )

I had rant. I had food. I feel better. Now I'm merely in the realm of 'annoyed', as opposed to 'stomping mad'. It's amazing what ranting followed by food can do. And a run. I ran with the doggie after eating a meal. Ow. Dumb -- but a good sort of dumb. Run with dog = better than' run with scissors'. and most certainly better than 'run with angry ( Read more... )