I’m only 40 or so pages in to Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, and I’ve already found a passage that Patrick O’Brian cribbed in one of his introductions. It made me feel really good to recognize it, not just because it reminded me of my love for that series (which I just finished rereading for [...]
Today was a good day.
This is not necessarily a list of things to be done today, because I am no longer mistress of my own time and the idea of being able to stick to a plan or a schedule is laughable, but a list of things that need to be accomplished in the near future. Clothes: -clean off [...]
I know one way motherhood has changed me, and that is that it’s made me much more of a radical. There is a certain amount of crap that I’ve learned to put up with in my life, because I just got tired of fighting, and I figured I could handle it. But I am damned [...]
I just booked our tickets to visit my family in August. I put my information into the website, then Ryan’s, then Hanna’s. The credit card I booked the tickets on is in my name. Both my first and my last names come before Ryan’s alphabetically. Expedia still listed Ryan as the main contact, and wouldn’t [...]
My tea is buzzing. It started the second I took the teabag out and the sound is definitely coming from inside my mug. My first thought was that I must be nuts, and my second is that my mug is going to explode. The tea still tastes normal, but it won’t stop buzzing. Update: After [...]
My absolute favorite photographer (she goes by the studio name Visioluxus, and lucky for me also lives in Portland, actually even in my same neighborhood) was having a sale today at her house, clearing out some of her old costumes and props so she can get new stuff to play with. I was a little [...]
We need a non-gendered language. It would be so much easier to get away from ideas about what boys and girls should do if our language didn’t force us to always choose between ‘he’ or ‘she.’ And just think how much richer our experience would be if we could apply adjectives not based on their [...]
