What are your New Year’s Resolutions? Or if you only have one, that’s cool. This year, I resolve to love my family. I’ve spent many long years breaking out of the self-misogyny that I learned from everyone I knew, basically, until high school (when I discovered Our Bodies, Ourselves but didn’t ever read it). I’ve [...]

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It’s been a wonderful year for Mind on Fire. Miko joined the ranks, regularly contributing her intelligent insights into life, feminism and spirituality. I wrote about my pilgrimage to local holy sites and places of worship (which I hope to begin again in the new year), and a number of us had a vigorous conversation [...]

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In a lot of ways, I already do. I earn my living manipulating data flow as a database and web developer. I spend many of my evenings reading social sciences and cultural theory, critically analyzing it all and critiquing them with professors and grad students. Many of my interactions with my spouse, my children, my [...]

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If he were alive today, he would be some 2006 years old! (give or take a few.) That’s a lot of candles.

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I’m culling books (dozens of them) and thought that some of you might be interested in the following titles. If one looks enticing to you, email me or leave a comment below, and I’ll send you the copy (or hand it to you if you live in SoCal). Merry Christmas! One of the two authors [...]

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For my first day of downtime (no work and no school for at least a week and a half), the kiddos and I cozied to 670 minutes (not including bathroom breaks) of extended version Lord of the Rings. The kids have been bugging me about this for months, and I finally made good on my [...]

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What was once a deathly concern is now a convenient metaphor: from here on out (until the cycle begins again) the dark night will stop consuming the bright days, winter will linger but spring will return with the prolonged shining of the sun. I’m not sure if there’s a connection between all of this and [...]

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I often joke that there are three things that keep me from turning vegetarian: sushi, Thanksgiving dinner, and carnitas. After reading this expos?© in Rolling Stone on death by pig shit, I may never let another morsel of Christmas ham, crispy bacon or long-simmered carnitas ever come near my mouth again. Extra Credit: I played [...]

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It’s that time of year again: figuring out what to get people and whether or not those are people you really need to get things for. I’ve started keeping a list inside my calendar of people’s names followed by links to things I think they might like. I then run them by my husband to [...]

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I’m burning in End of the Semester Paper Hell right now (Dante reserved this section for The Procrastinators), so my posts will be more of the link, quote and question type for the next little while. I’m glad that Miko has written a couple of thoughtful posts in the past few days. Anyhow, I’ve learned [...]

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