CatGirl and I are training up to LA tomorrow to see the Amy Sol exhibit at the ThinkSpace Gallery.  She’s one of our favorite contemporary artists–she inspires CatGirl’s art and my stories.  We’ve been waiting for this for months.  We’re also planning to hit the Farmer’s Market and Little Tokyo (including a possible lunch with […]

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Religion Dispatches has a very interesting deconstruction of a well known Old Testament story, one used frequently to support “the Culture of Life” (forgive my scare quotes, but they scare me!), but which, RD argues, ought to be understood to support Justice.
Spark is a category for sharing links. No intense commentary, just a link & […]

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I have missed the beginning of Lent, hidden as it was this year, on Super Tuesday (followed by Awesome Wednesday and in 30 or so more days, Good Friday). I have a new friend for whom my respect has grown because he becomes vegan for the whole season (including Sundays). It makes me want to […]

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Even though I grew up eating things like Spam Musubi (warning, potentially NSFA*), that’s not what I’m referring to here. I forward three email accounts worth of messages to gmail, which does an incredible job of filtering out the bad spam. No more (checking spam folder for inspiration) cialis or penile enlargement offers […]

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Living Green Below Your Means has a great article up on how to save money and resources on Valentine’s Day. Aside from supporting SAD or V-Day, both of which are very good ways to spend what has become a Hallmark Holiday at best, regardless of what it used to be.
I encourage everyone interested in a […]

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I have never been especially fond of pink. To me it separated the girls from the tomboys and I was most definitely the latter. It was girls being unoriginal, mothers locking their children into gender roles (unless on boys, I approve of pink on the male segment of the population), and, as Dooce says, ” […]

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My mother and I used to fly to NYC to go to musicals. London was closer, but this was before our discovery of it, and of the Mousetrap. I had a sister who lived there, then; we would stay with her. Usually we had an additional excuse to be there, visiting the sister, for example, […]

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Jana’s sitting in one of the wingback chairs watching Hotel Rwanda on her laptop. Occasionally I hear her gasp, and I look up to see her grimace in the glow of the laptop screen.
I just finished reading a textbook for one of my classes, so I try to wind down by reading webcomics and […]

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I’m generally quiet about our charitable giving, but the more I think about it, the more I think we should talk about the organizations we support with our voluntary offerings. We transmit all kinds of information via word of mouth: good movies and books, gossip, jokes, stories–what could be more important to pass on […]

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