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Hair
A couple of days ago, in McNamara terminal in Detroit, Fire Child and I were on a quest to find a banana. A couple of movators away from our gate, I heard a voice behind me ask, "How long did it take you to grow your locs?" I turn around, and it's a black woman, about my age, with locs herself. We have a satisfying but too-quick conversation about ( Read more... ) -
Fire Child + TSA
Oh so little time left between now and airline/family/airline doom. I'll be so happy once this stupid trip is over ( Read more... ) -
Randoms: family edition
A mama checks in with her gender queer girly boy. I am really grateful to be parenting at this time, as opposed to any earlier -- I speak on historical terms and not my own personal age. I love that gender queerness and gender fluidity is gaining acceptance for wee folk... that gender neutral is something to aspire to, instead of the heavily- ( Read more... ) -
this and that: post-Labour Day wrap-up
Aw, fuckitall... I just discovered that Nestle owns Green & Blacks. Fuck fuck fuck. Guess it's down to Cocoa Camino and ChocoSol for me now ( Read more... ) -
my haul + random bits of other stuff
The holidays were much better than anticipated. Spending time with extended family was not a headache in the least and neither was getting out of town for a few days.
Here's what I got for giftmas:
The bestest stuffed animal present EVAR!!!
(a small manageable goat)
He is black and his name is Shub and he's wunnerful!
- a DVD collection that has ( Read more... )
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back from Up North
we played Scrabble yesterday, and it was Such Fun! optimystik seemed reluctant at first, fearing that with my supposedly superior vocabulary skills I would soundly trounce him, but he was only mildly trounced in the first game, came out a winner in the second game we played with misslynx (who was a Very Sore Loser, btw -- she was obviously not feeling well), and ( Read more... )