Tell me, is it possible to have a passionate commitment to ideals (political, feminist, religious) without being so angry?  I want to keep abreast of what’s up in my world, but somehow, I find many bloggers to be all-pissed-off-all-the-time.  It’s exhausting.
Then again, maybe that just means that I’m not a good (progressive, feminist, Christian, fill-in-the-blank).  […]

Another new blog of note: My Life, My Pace. God, I need to update my links list.
I particularly love her description of sand people. It pains me to admit it, but I’ve been one. I’m sure I’ll be one again some time in the future. For now, I satisfy myself with […]

A few weeks ago, I posted about weight and body image, and found myself reading the initial “shitstorm” post on Morphing Into Mama (MIM). (Aside: How appropriate is it that I just wanted to write “morphine” instead of “morphing”? Oh, the pain!) I read the post, and I found myself with some seriously […]

Ah…music.
After a while of neglecting my ears, I reminded myself that I have a Soundbridge for a reason, and started turning Radio Paradise back on.
Gotta love a set that starts like this:
3:16 pm - Kirsty MacColl - In These Shoes?
3:19 pm - Louis Prima - Jump, Jive, An’ Wail
3:23 pm - Holly Cole - Little […]

Via Happy Feminist (see previous post), I came across the April 18th Carnival of the Feminists (just what I need…more time-suck blog reading!). Via CofF, I’m finding a plethora of fascinating posts about women, marriage, weight, and body-image.
The most perceptive comment I’ve seen so far comes from Hugo Schwyzer:
Though she doesn’t expand on it, […]

Sometimes a little retail therapy isn’t a bad idea.

It’s over!
Would you believe that this was the end of a 3+ month stay, that was originally supposed to last 2 weeks or so? It’s not entirely his fault…trust me…there were many reasons why the stay lasted as long as it did (job stringing him along, then not happening was the big one). […]

Pardon the lack of posting. I’m spending my days up at the new digs de-Laura-Ashley-ing it, then my nights back here at the condo packing and preparing for Monday’s move.
Deep thoughts are on hold.

Literally on the “dream” part, that is. Sometime this morning, I dreamed of a man who just blew me away. Maybe that isn’t the right term…but whatever the wording, he completely charmed me, without actually trying.
Where: at a church. At a freaky, icky megachurch. Why, oh why? I was completely […]

A comment on an earlier post made me realize that perhaps I should give Anne Lamott’s work a look. (Paper bag over head…I haven’t ever read her!)
A quick search on Amazon helped me realize that I’ve actually hear her interviewed, and that I’d already considered one of her books — she was featured on […]

Not sure what’s triggered it, but I’m getting comment spam now.
From here on, the first time you comment, I will have to manually approve it. Once I know you’re a “real person,” your comments will appear right away. I’m unsure how this will affect folks who’ve commented before, but I’m guessing that I’ll […]

Bad blogger, bad! Bad!
I neglected to post that I’d be out of town for the past week. Um…I was out of town, but back now, so posting should resume before long.

Several site I frequent have reported a deluge of comment spam within the past couple weeks. Until today, I thought the only recourse was for them to turn off the “anonymous” option. I learned from Orac’s site today that this isn’t the case.
Blogger now has a word-recognition feature that blog owners can switch […]

I’m on a bit of an unplanned blogging break — life’s just kept me busy enough that commenting on others’ sites has been more fulfilling than writing my own spiel.
In the meantime, I found this in the comments on NinjaNun’s site. It’s so wrong. But so funny.

If you care to see what we’re looking like these days, I just got a ton of photos back from the photographer.

Slideshow here.
Oh, and my wtfwjd? sticker arrived! Now, am I *really* going to put it on my car? Hmmmm…