Almost a decade ago (that long? shit...) I realized that my being on my laptop at night made it harder for me to fall asleep. The quality of light tended to just blast my brain awake. I would even dim it, but to no avail. That wasn't the problem ( Read more... )

I've been running behind on SO many things for SO many months, and I'm sick of it ( Read more... )

I was reading J.M.Greer's post this week. It made me think about how we're taught that some parts of us are "better" or "worse" than others. I've always heard I shouldn't get angry, or too sad or joyful for that matter. I'm supposed to be serenely loving (but from a sort of haughty distance, ideally) and/or logical and rational. Both ideals are all ( Read more... )

[Written a week later-- but hey! I got there ( Read more... )

Friday night, Tess brought a new person in her life that she's befriending and perhaps dating. That person is a trans-gendered man-to-woman named "Fran." I liked her energy as soon as I met her and offered her a hug as greeting ( Read more... )

Every now and again, you come across an article that you agree with, but realize is incomplete.

Like THIS: www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20170110-despite-what-you-might-think-chickens-are-not-stupidI wrote a commentary on this on another media site ( Read more... )

Okay ( Read more... )

I'm feeling so much better this week ( Read more... )

Things have been extra quiet with Cat since last week's kerfuffle. I didn't say enough or something and she walked away, and then was in a "red light mood" for the next 5 nights in a row. She took a stay-cation to get a bunch of things done that she procrastinated about like the estate lawyer and her taxes and some household things (setting up the ( Read more... )

We were snowed in for several days over the weekend, with Cat lamenting that she didn't buy an earth/snow moving blade for her tractor-mower. Then, after reaching a total of 22 inches of snow-- the most I've EVER seen on the valley floor in the Pacific Northwest (the previous record for me being 18 inches in east Portland that kept many snowed in ( Read more... )