We are, I think, as a people, a community of head shakers.
We like to stand around and shake our heads and cluck our tongues and admonish the world around us.
We are aghast at how bad the world is these days.  We are shocked by cruelty and deception and what we perceive to be evil.  We [...]

Kevin of Always Home and Uncool has asked me to post this as part of his effort to raise awareness in the blogosphere of juvenile myositis, a rare autoimmune disease his daughter was diagnosed with on this day seven years ago. The day also happens to be his wife’s birthday.
Take it away, Kevin…
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Our [...]

His name was Richard and he was married to Janet for over 25 years.
They met in England while she was on vacation.  Six months after meeting him, Janet moved to England to be with him.
After he died, Janet talked about how he brought her flowers on ordinary days that had nothing to do with Valentines [...]

Sarah pointed me to an article in Wired that pretty much sums up my philosophy on life.
Or, at the very least, the point I’ve been trying to make in an ongoing argument with Avitable recently.*
The entire article is a long list of new rules of behavior for “highly evolved humans” – aka, people living in [...]

She answered the door wearing neither makeup nor shoes.
She wore a t-shirt and cut off denim shorts and a closely cropped haircut that was devoid of any styling product.  She smiled as she opened her home to me and quietly invited me in.  She seemed a little meek and unsure of how to greet me.
Shit, [...]

Thursday’s Child sent this twitter:
“Women Bloggers: Have you seen this yet? I thought you’d find it particularly delicious. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30709961″

Hey, I’m a woman blogger!  So I checked out the link.
Apparently, yet another marketing company is trying to figure out how to market to women.  The computer company, Dell, has recently launched a new site it’s calling [...]

GLSEN’s Day Of Silence.

Follow the link chain with me for a minute while I lead you down the path that caused me to question whether or not I was a closet racist. Or something.
I was reading my wonderful friend Shari’s post about her experience at Blissdom. (No, this is not a post about Blissdom.) In this [...]

I received a request from another blogger to do a post here. Specifically, they wanted to know what *you* – meaning you, dear reader – had to say about a certain topic.
Personally, I think that says quite a bit about you. Mainly, that you’re outspoken and engaging and awesome and basically the best [...]

“Every eye fixed itself upon him
with parted lips and bated breath
the audience hung upon his words
taking no note of time
rapt in the ghastly fascinations of the tale”
-Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer

And now we wait.
All of them, all of us,
to see if it is possible.
To see the dream realized,
or the believers made fools of.
For the celebration,
the disappointment,
the [...]

I don’t remember how the conversation started, exactly. It had something to do with the picture I chose to use in this post, although I’m not sure how the road turned from there to here.
We were lying beside each other in the darkness, a momentary silence resting between us that seemed to be weighted [...]

The election is over and the progress our country has – and has not – made is evident in the numbers.
We, as a nation, elected a black man. We, as voters, screamed our disappointment in the current administration. We organized and mobilized and donated our time. We got involved and became informed, [...]

Where were you the day the world changed?
Will you remember where you were when you heard that the United States had elected the first black president?
I will tell my children about the night I sat with three friends in a living room in Florida. There were dots on the walls and ceilings and a [...]

The press is not impressed. They are not giddy with anticipation or soaking up their surroundings in big, huge gulps. Maybe you get used to having this kind of access to the world.
But I, well, I am beyond impressed. I am in awe.
I am 50 yards from the podium. With a [...]

I hesitate to write this because I am not an expert and this is not a political blog. I’m well aware that my readers don’t come here to get their policy lessons.
But I believe in civic responsibility. And today, the first day of early voting in Florida, I believe that it is my [...]