I have to thank my friend mc_questionmark for bringing this pressing issue to my attention. On Facebook, he posed these thought-provoking questions to his friends:

Ostrich vs. Kangaroo: Which of these creatures would you rather do battle with and why?
Which one would win a fight if they were to engage each other? If you're like me, most of Mark's friends, or ( Read more... )

(This is for Week 8 of therealljidol)

Rant:

• Get offended at something said in an email.
  
• Write a sternly worded, passionate post about why that person is the greatest MORON in history.
  
• Include a couple witty links to prove how right you are.
  
• Bask in the glory of your friends telling you “Right on!”
  
• Wallow in despair as your coworker forwards it to the boss.
  
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I hope, more than anything else, that my children grow up in a household of love. And I hope they appreciate that as the treasure that it is ( Read more... )

That's right - never. Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. I've dressed up for every year for as long as I can remember. Yet never have I donned that ethereal white sheet to become one of Halloween's biggest staples. I have a downright aversion to it. Why? you might ask. I blame:


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therealljidol offers us an Open Topic this week. I've decided to use this opportunity to update my What is Reiki? post, only this time I'd like to focus a little more on how reiki has affected me personally. Reiki is one of my biggest passions, and it's changed my life in so many wonderful ways ( Read more... )

I don't usually write about politics. Most often, I try to ignore it and just do my own civic duty.

But one post for therealljidol really stuck out. intrepia wrote an exceptional essay, and I'm duty-bound to urge you to take a look.

Edit: You have to be a community member to vote this round.

Since I started my livejournal back in 2005, there have been some misconceptions, insinuations, and outright accusations. I've decided to use this week's therealljidol topic as an opportunity to set the record straight ( Read more... )

Imagine, if you will, a nineteen year old girl limping (slightly) down the highway, covered in purple stains and red scratches, her bright Bozo the Clown hair shining in the sun. This isn't what you'd normally think of as “A Moment of Bliss”, but it's the moment that keeps returning to me as I muse over this week's topic for therealljidolThose of you who know ( Read more... )

written for therealljidol

I am the one you hate.

I am the one who considers The Mary-Sue Litmus Test a direct challenge. I am the one who bases entire characters and storylines on Grateful Dead songs. I write bad guys who don't discover the Light of Goodness...although they might pretend to for a while. I will have my Hatrack character speak to birds and ride ( Read more... )

I said in my intro that I would try not to be bleak, so when I saw our first topic for therealljidol was Saying Goodbye, I tried to just make it not about mom. Lord knows I've had many goodbyes in my life, and a great many of those recently. Somehow, it always comes back to this. In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion calls it 'the vortex'. I can't even ( Read more... )