One little boy napping in his bed, the other napping on my left arm. I would like to be sewing right now, but I'm pretty certain Jazzy will wake if I try to move him ( Read more... )

Today is one of those days where I wish I had a flagpole in my yard. So I could fly the American flag at half-mast. A good man leaves office and is succeeded by a man who is the cream of society... in the Pratchett sense of "or at least that bit that floats to the top ( Read more... )

Trying not to cry. Wonderful Husband and I are attempting to research (as the site has infamously crashed) immigration to Canada. It's either that or the UK, but we're a touch leery of the political situation there too, given Brexit. One country has the advantage that three of the four of us are already citizens and that we have family and ( Read more... )

I'm staying well away from politics and their debates because I already know who I intend to vote for, and it's not the candidate who will send us back to the political stone age. And, honestly, my policy of not watching television is affirmed by what I see the times some comes across my radar. The cafe Wonderful Husband and I grabbed lunch at ( Read more... )

So an American President has actually given lip service to the revolutionary concept that all people are created equal, endowed with certain inalienable rights, chief among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Part of me says it's about damn time. Another, more cynical, part of me notes that it's an election year ( Read more... )

Had the final writing class for the term. There were two stories that got edited before the party part of the class began. And, in a class that's 2:1 women to men, I think I explained badly why one of the stories offended me ( Read more... )

So as far as I was aware, the Pit of Voles has a rule about "no fiction of real, living people ( Read more... )

So there are anti-abortion protestors (who seem to be led by old white men) who stand with their stupid, hurtful signs every Saturday morning on a street corner I pass to go home from bellydance class.

Am I allowed to hope that they were taken by the raptors Rapture?

I generally don't post about politics, feeling that they, like religion, are things best kept to oneself as they're deeply personal and easily lead to strife. I discuss them with my husband, my parents, and (far more rarely) with my close friends, and that's it.

( A small amount of politics. )

My coworkers are discussing the killings at Virginia Tech, and I am trying not to be sickened by their conversation. Thus far they have decried immigration, antidepressants, and Buddhism. Several of my friends, not to mention my Wonderful Husband, are immigrants to America. Several of my friends are on various antidepressant medications. If I ( Read more... )