Work is very stressful today and I’m having a massive case of the old “Impostor Syndrome”(TM ( Read more... )

Why should a privileged, well-to-do white woman blog about Ferguson?  I thought I shouldn't; I thought it would be derailing.  But I have to ( Read more... )

Time for a feminist rant. Hang on ( Read more... )

I spend most of my bike ride to work imagining blog topics.  So it's really good that it's been National Poetry Month or you'd have had 30 blog posts about cold, coldness, and hating the cold ( Read more... )

Time for a traffic peeve.

In England, these things are called "Roundabouts" and they all work the same way, rather efficiently. Everyone enters in the same direction, everyone leaves in the same direction, turning a four-way stop into a four-way yield, or in light traffic a four-way-no-stop-at-all.


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A friend of mine commented recently, "If I had a nickel for every time a white person has told me 'you aren't like other black people' and honestly meant it as a compliment ( Read more... )

Last night, at a party, I was introduced to a woman. "Marie plays football!" my friend said ( Read more... )

A friend of mine posted a link to a "ten signs you are a writer" article a few days ago and it bothered me because, among other things it had "you hate editing" as a sign. I thought, "No, that's a sign you ARE NOT a writer." Hobbyists can't be bothered to polish their work, just making the first draft is enough for what they want to do. That's ( Read more... )

I tell this story a lot, so apologies to those well versed ( Read more... )

I stopped in the new coffee shop for a latte on my way that morning and there... There it was.

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