I kind of liked having a smoking president.

There is too much. I'm happy, I'm overwhelmed, I'm doing stuff and forgetting stuff. Oh well.

As an addendum to my earlier post today, I wanted to share this affirmation that my friend Jariatou wrote. It's called Intimacy Love Affair, because the idea is to have intimacy with your own body. She read it to me and I made her read it again so I could write it down for myself. This is something I have posted on an index card where I can read it ( Read more... )

It is so cruel the way so many mothers tear into their own daughters about how they look. Fat is a feminist issue, and it's one of the ones entrenched society that has women using to bring down each other instead of boosting each other up ( Read more... )

For those of you who are lying to your children in the name of seasonal cheer, there's an opportunity for corroborative evidence ( Read more... )

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I *thought* it would be neat to take pictures of some of the plants around here and identify them. (You are definitely welcome to share your knowledge with me.)


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One of the SXSW panels was an organization called "Game for Change," as in video games being "great for more serious content: poverty, the environment, global conflict. Games let people try on new behaviors, and immerse people in these situations that they don't normally have access to ( Read more... )

Finished Cruddy, "an illustrated novel" by Lynda Barry. (Not a graphic novel, but with a few maps and pictures among the chapters.) I'd read her Marlys strips in the Chronicle, and flipped through her One! Hundred! Demons!. I kind of appreciate that she's got dysfunctional family/kid stuff, because it's more like people's childhoods than the sitcom ( Read more... )

Daisy and I were on our way back from our morning walk, and I got to feel the cold air come rolling in. The birds have even gone quiet.