jaxontarl - the post linked below does a better job of explaining our whole take on how the path gets easier when you're going in the right direction:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/08/life-sucks-then-you-die/

I've been seeing folks on my friends list posting for "blog against racism" week. And I'm really torn here...I've said little because I know that my views will likely be unpopular - most of what I've seen seems to be blogging as a way of saying, "I know I'm a little racist, and this makes me feel guilty." rather than "I know racism is a problem, ( Read more... )

*walks down the drive ( Read more... )

It's been a strange week.

I've been on vacation, and other than a handful of LJ entries (most of them heavily filtered due to them being me trying to process things this week), I haven't done any writing. It's been too busy, too crazy. And yet writing brings me peace and happiness. How is it that I spent all week running around dealing with other ( Read more... )

Some days, doing the "right" thing sucks.

Just sayin'

I was gonna post this as a reply to a comment on a previous post but I felt it was maybe more important to make it a post all on its own ( Read more... )

What officer in a club is the person responsible for answering incoming questions and sending things on to other officers if that's needed?

I mean, I know the secretary would do this in many groups, but I'm looking for something more...spiffy sounding :-)

One of the things I've been thinking about lately is the concept of workload ( Read more... )

This is not really a post on religion, though I do touch on the idea of good luck charms and other talismans most of us (of all walks of life and all religions) have. And it's not really a post on BDSM, though the things I am about to offer up started as a part of my first bondage experience - and I do have to talk about that briefly to explain ( Read more... )

Would you study with an academic organization that had a great program on the topic you are looking for, but whose politics and/or over-arching goals you found, at best, distasteful?

Why or why not?