This article makes me feel sick. ( Don't read if you don't want to get angry over LGBT bigoted ass-hattery )

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.”

Not to be cavalier, I find it oddly fitting that he died on Pi

My father's last remaining sibling, my uncle Bubi, died this morning in the Netherlands. Now, he was 93, had suffered a stroke a couple of years ago and was receiving full-time care from his eldest daughter in their home (she never married and had always lived with her parents), so it's not like this was completely out of the blue. But still - it ( Read more... )

Holy shit, you guys. I don't know why I can't get my act together to keep up with LJ, or post at all. Granted, I was participating in the November writing fest that is NoSo, and my scarce online time usually went to writing or commenting on the comm. But that doesn't excuse my absence, neglecting my friends on LJ - where I haven't read my flist ( Read more... )

I realize I've been pretty quiet lately. Sorry about that. I just feel like I have less free time than ever, and when I DO have free time, I'm so brain dead, all I end up doing half the time is randomly surfing the 'net and not accomplishing anything. I haven't checked my flist on LJ in 10 days (I have on DW, but that's much smaller). I did ( Read more... )

Like 30-50" (75-127cm) of rain. My thoughts are with the people of SE Texas. Does anyone here know someone who is affected? Are they ok? Our only TX friends live in the Dallas area, which is scheduled to get wet, but not flooded, so they should be ok. But these before and after photos of the Houston area are just mind-boggling. Also, as if 10 ( Read more... )

So, Trump has dragged us further into the mud by pulling out of the Paris agreement for the "people of Pittsburgh" - who voted overwhelmingly for Clinton. :P

To the rest of the world: I'm so, so sorry.

Plus - although it's absolutely NO surprise - he's failing to recognize Pride month. He's rolled back other protections for women, sick people, ( Read more... )

Do you think we'll ever have a time when there isn't constantly horrible news going around, because of terrible things people have done? (Also, Mr. Prez: Surely there was some other term you could have used besides "Loser"? We're not in a school yard ( Read more... )

Life continues to be kicking my butt, sigh. I seriously don't know why I'm having so much trouble keeping up with my online presence, but I am. I didn't even sub last week. Don't know if my kids are being more needy or what ( Read more... )

So, thanks to the Trump administration and our new Attorney General (who supposedly pressured DeVos into agreeing, Two no longer is guaranteed a safe place to pee at school. Thankfully, I'm fairly sure his school will guarantee him a safe place to pee anyway, as they have given us absolutely zero difficulty over Two. I also strongly suspect that ( Read more... )