Is this called prostituting your talent?

Someone please tell me this is not for real. Unfortunately, from what I can see on the website, it appears to be genuine. The Poetry Brothel makes word sluts of poets, and we’re supposed to laugh lightly and raise an absinthe toast? The Poetry Brothel is the first event of its kind to seduce New [...]

I’ve done 3 things right in my life

I’d say they all won Christmas with this gift.  They had this done back in June, when Julie was here for Tony’s graduation.  They found their own photographer, picked their own shooting location, and made various excuses to be out of the house at the same time.  I never suspected a thing. There’s an 8×10 [...]

Winning Christmas

Every year, Christmas is a competition with my kids, with Meredith in particular intent on “winning.”  But it’s not a matter of who has the most packages, or whose gifts cost the most, or who got the thing that they really really wanted.  No. It’s about who did the best at surprising someone else with [...]

4 years

Four years ago today, I wrote my first post on this site.  I was in a phase of rebirth then; newly diagnosed with Bi-Polar Disorder, entering menopause,  my oldest moving away after college graduation,  my 2nd child going off to college and my youngest starting high school.  A lot of things have changed since then. [...]

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow ♫

Ho, ho, snow!  In less than 24 hours we accumulated 3 feet of snow in normally mild Spokane, a 1 day record, I’m told.  In the 25 years I’ve been here, I could count the number of White Christmases on one hand.  If the kids didn’t have to drive home in this today, I’d think [...]

2 down, 48 to go

The flag of equal marriage. In 1902, when the women’s suffrage movement was just getting warmed up, the American flag had 45 stars.  In protest, the suffragists created their own US flag with only four stars, representing the four states that allowed women to vote. In that tradition, this is a protest flag for equal [...]

An early graduation present

A beautiful quilt made by my talented daughter Julie. Thanks, sweetie!

Psych of Gender, Final Paper

I only got a 95 on this.  He said it was more a social analysis than a psychological one.  He’s right.  I don’t really get the difference.  I wish I had a chance to do it over. Discrimination As A Pathway to Violence in Enforcing Gender Norms Angie Zapata, 18, Greeley, Colorado. Duanna Johnson, 43, [...]

Because I’m losing my mind during finals week

Edgar came running when I played this. Enjoy!

Over the counter doesn’t mean safe

I was terribly congested at bedtime last night, so I used Afrin nasal spray. It cleared my sinuses, but then the nightmares started, and the panic attacks in my sleep. They continue today, in spite of the Ativan I took. So I looked it up. Side affects: racing heartbeat, hallucinations, anxiety…. Oh yeah, that should [...]

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