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Yesterday I was hanging out with Natasha, coming back from Thrift Town, where she got a bear in a rabbit suit and a sparkly sweater and I got a long peice of fabric for my flag waving project (...details on that some other time). she said something about someone being homeless, it was this old white guy pushing a shopping cart, and I asked her how ( Read more... )

Reading The Librarian of Basra at her request the other night, I asked Natasha, "Do you know where Basra is?" She said no, and I said, "It's in Iraq." And she said, "There's a war there."

I said, "Yes, and that war is being made by the governement of the USA, the country we live in."

( (why I said that) )

I have been lagging on getting Natasha into the dentist, but today we finally went...her very first visit! Whiole we were waiting we kept hearing this other kid going "ow, it hurts, stop..." which was creepy, but what I could se eis that when the kid called out for the dentist to stop, she DID stop and took little breaks. I think the kid was ( Read more... )

I just read an email from Break the Seige, and awesome organiziation that I have had some involvement with, that is focused on addressing the occupation of Palestine but also other colonization and imperialism in the middle east/north africa. they're having what looks like an exciting meeting tonight. I can't go. I can no longer stay out two ( Read more... )

The process of getting your kid placed in the public school system in San Francisco is um, messy and messed up. however, we navigated it, and back in January submitted our list of our top 7 choices for schools. We knew we were not guaranteed that Natasha would be placed at any of our choices, but we also knew our chances were good, because we ( Read more... )

As those of you who look at this blog now and then know, for the past several weeks I have been trying to find out and share information about the Hutto Prison.

( here's the background on my learning about Hutto )

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the other day, Natasha fell and skinned her knees, more so than usual. She was crying really hard, and she said through her tears that this was her worst injury in her whole life (which may be true, although there was a time when she wasa toddler when she fell and skinned her face...in any case, we are blessed to have that be true). anyway, she ( Read more... )