I know that February is all lovey-dovey and full of Valentine’s Day commercialized crap. Being a person who was all about the anti-Valentine in my young(er) adulthood, I’ve always eschewed the pink hearts and cloyingly sweet sayings on card stock. Since I’ve had kids, I’ve had to swallow a bit of the anti-corporate agenda — [...]
Due to the overly serious nature of this post, a puppy picture will accompany it to balance things out. Losing faith was gradual. There was no “Aha” moment. No absence of that divine light and heavenly choir wafting down to show the way. I didn’t just wake up one morning and go “Nope! Nothing there!”. [...]
Humble Pie. I’m eating it. Sometimes you say things you shouldn’t. I know I did, between last night and this morning. This is my apology. See, a flamewar started in the comment section. A flamewar involving me, and a commenter. I wrote some things that were extremely passive agressive, and it took someone else with [...]
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute…” Rebecca West, The Clarion I always love it when I hear a woman say that she’s not a feminist, because [...]
I am mental. Seriously, clinically, professionally diagnosed, card-carrying crazy. Nuttier than squirrel poop. I’ve been hesitant to write about it for a long time, mostly because of a lingering bit of “what would people think?”. Screw that kind of thinking. I’m done with it and all its various relatives. I was diagnosed with clinical depression [...]
Since I “mothballed” my old blog, I’ve been working on a redesign as well as chewing on some posts. Working with a starter theme called Toolbox, I’m creating a HTML5 theme that I hope to have finished soon. Like the title says, I’m nearly there. In other news, I’m sore as all hell. I’ve started [...]