My Hormones Made Me Do It

I’m still on someone’s media relations list, even though it’s been years since I ran a community blog.  (Thank the good Lord above.)   I’m forever getting emails about mediocre artists’ new album releases and strange gift books.   Today’s was the absolute limit. From a woman called Gabrielle at myhormonesmademedoit.com (seriously) I am invited [...]

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On Rowling, Oprah, Oxycontin and Odontophobia

Today’s writing is apparently brought to you by the letter O. As in Oh brother, I can’t believe I’m writing the whole thing on an iPad. My husband, who loves me in spite of all reasons not to, also loved his ipad so much that he bought me one for christmas, which he actually gave [...]

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At Least Now They Can Identify My Body

I’m not scared of many things.  But two things that petrify me are so common in the Phobia guidebook that it’s almost a cliche.  Clowns and dentists. The thing is–you don’t really ever have to go to the circus.   Once you reach a certain age if you never propigate there is very little social [...]

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An Open Letter To Several People

In the years that I have been blogging I’ve met many people whom I now consider to be friends.   We have a lot of differences; different faiths, different sexuality, different politics.   But at the core of the matter we have in common an essential ingredient.   We are humans who wish to do [...]

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On Sickness & Sin–A Response

Update:  What’s been said has been said.   Both sides have aired their opinions on the matter.  I have no wish to further continue a stressful and unproductive argument on my blogspace.  All the participating commentors have blogs of his or her own, and of course are free to continue talking over there.   To [...]

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Why I’m Hesitating About Seeing Deathly Hallows

As I said in an earlier post, this is a day for re-reading Harry Potter. And so I am. I’m closing in on the end of book four (Goblet of Fire) and am enjoying the ticklish delight of knowing there are still three books left to read. For the first three years of my involvement, [...]

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Embrace The Bluster

I’m enjoying the crisp days under gray skies a lot more than I probably should. But lately they seem to be the base chords underscoring the treble harmony of hot summer, and they feel right in a way that is hardly tangible. These are the days that are made for reading by the fire. These [...]

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“I know I stole from you. But I made your work better. You should pay me.

Via Tiny Cat Pants I am alerted to the case of Cooks Source magazine violating an author’s copyright on an article about an antique recipe she posted to her blog. I have an ongoing interest in the copyright protections of blogged material. I also have a firm belief in using the Internet to point out [...]

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The Elections Are Over, And I Break Up With Chuck Colson

Those are actually two independent thoughts.   My breaking up with Evangelical Right leader Colson happened before the elections ever took place.  But since they are the only two politically significant events I care to write about, I’m throwing them all together in a distasteful stew of political posting that could also be called “Libertarian [...]

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All Magic Has Left The World

My Pagan and Wicca friends believe that the fabric between our world and the world of the Spirits is thinnest on Mayday Eve and Halloween. I’ve also heard them say that the entire months of April and October are “gateway” months. I personally believe that if that is the case, then the spirits have been [...]

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