Apparently, The Humane Society is Stupid
As y’all know, a few weeks ago, I wrote a bluntly scathing letter to the Humane Society letting them know that I strongly disapprove of their ‘free blanket’ campaign to raise funds. Yesterday I got...
View ArticleToday is World Cancer Day
Today, February 4, is World Cancer Day. As someone in the midst of the freaking wild ride known as cancer, this is a day to mark. I am celebrating the day by going in for my Oncology Orientation. Isn’t...
View ArticleHave You Heard The One about the NY Muslim?
Apparently, being an American citizen, he thought he could build a community center. He also though that since his community are Muslims, like him, and much of the funding was coming from his...
View ArticleTSA’s new scans and body-pat-down procedures
The Wild Hunt has a stunning articleabout a Wiccan woman’s recent traumatic experience with the new body scanners and the accompanying opt-out procedures. It’s pretty clear that the ‘opt out’ is...
View ArticleIn Honor of the Day: Martin Luther King Jr.
In 1950’s America, the equality of man envisioned by the Declaration of Independence was far from a reality. People of color — blacks, Hispanics, Asians — were discriminated against in many ways, both...
View ArticleFlyers Rights
Specifically, FlyersRights.org. This is another group of good people who are looking out for our best interests. If you travel by airplane, ever, you whnt to support what they are doing. This post is a...
View Article“Porn, Piracy, & BitTorrent”
An August 10 feature story in the Seattle Weekly –“Porn, Piracy, & BitTorrent“–takes a deeper than ‘it’s wrong’ look at illegal file-sharing technology. What I found fascinating was the information...
View ArticleIt may happen to you — but only if you are a woman
I read this today, and I had to re-blog it. http://unwinona.tumblr.com/post/30861660109/i-debated-whether-or-not-to-share-this-story This, in its exactitude, has not happened to me. BUT things very...
View ArticleAdvice on How to Live Your Life
I read this and was touched, deeply, on many levels. How to live your life: Advice from an American student who was killed in Egypt Andrew Pochter, a 21-year-old Kenyon College student from Chevy...
View ArticleSpirituality & Activism
Every since I read T. Thorn Coyle’s profoundly beautiful post, “Opposition is a Prayer,” I have been contemplating whether my spiritual practice needs to be politically charged. Are the two linked? In...
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Dark thoughts
It’s a dark time in the world, and I find myself musing on the last time it felt this way to me. Why now, why is it dark *now*? I’m watching people I know and care about get marginalized — AGAIN —...
View Article“Lemonade”
Last night I finally witnessed Beyonce’s Lemonade. I use the word witness in full knowledge of its religious meaning: I was given a powerful narrative of the desperate erasure of black women in America...
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Lessons from Dr. Who
I woke up this morning with some thoughts rumbling around. Many of us are being called to step away from our boring lives and do something just a little bit more to make our worlds safe again. This is...
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Making Choices for 2017
What a tough year for the world. I could write a maudlin post about the end of America as we know it or about the many deaths of celebrities we used as role models. It would be easy, and I suspect many...
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Being Hungry
(I almost can’t write this, I still feel intense shame.) There were two times in my my life when I was poor enough to feel actual physical hunger. The first was when my parents first separated and I...
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