Should a consider it a matter of spontaneous confluence that the writer's block question a scant 2-3 days after my last post is "who pays on the first date ( Read more... )

Recently, i've been given to understand that a dear friend of mine has been taking a lot of flak for being "unfeminine"--essentially, failing to live up to the behavioral expectations others have of women. Many times i've also heard friends i love and respect teased or told "we're revoking your man card" when they fail to live up to others' ( Read more... )

Having just got home from youth dance weekendlast monday, i've been thinking a lot about various aspects of contra dancing and why i love it so much.*
Yeah, i know that not everyone is into any kind of partnered dancing at all. To each their own.
Don't know what contra dancing is? Look here and here (and just for good measure, try some crossover ( Read more... )

I'm sure lots of people have spent the day celebrating the life and work of dr. martin luther king, jr., a driving force behind the civil rights movement of the 1960's. Me, i've been sick with for the last several days with an awful chest cold and periodic migraines, but that's another matter entirely ( Read more... )

Very recently, i read Lizardbeth's latest cartoon. I happen to be rather a fan of her strip, Broken Plot Device. This is not in any way a rag against her, especially since what got my dander up wasn't so much her cartoon as her readers' comments. Have you read it? Go read it, and maybe the comments too, just so we're all on the same page.
( OK, i've seen it. And? )

I imagine most of those few who read these posts know that i'm just recently back from a couple of trips--one to Anthrocon, one to FGC Gathering. More on that in a later post, i expect. What i'm thinking about just now is something that came up after this year's sexuality and spirituality fishbowl ( Read more... )

As a kid, i remember days in math class where the teacher had us play a cooperative game called Pico Fermi Bagel. The rules were that she had though of a 3-digit number, and we would use a series of guesses to figure out what her number was. It didn't take long to figure out that while you ultimately wanted a to get a Fermi fermi fermi ( ( Read more... )

OK, so maybe the whole rest of the world figured this out before i did; i don't know. It just struck me when i realized it. And yes, i know that "reuning" isn't a word. But still ( Read more... )

Just finished the above novel by Patricia McKillip; wow, do i love the way she uses language ( Read more... )

Lately, it seems like everybody and his kid sister in the Quaker world has been getting excited about this Nonviolent Communication program (even though it seems to have been around for somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 years. Why, again, did it take so long to catch on among us?). So, being as i'm supposed to serve on Nurturing Committee for ( Read more... )