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Sunstone 2008, personal wrap-up.

August 10th, 2008 · by John · 6 Comments

Sunstone this year left me delighted, exhausted and emotionally raw.  I bled three panel presentations out of myself, slept an average of 4 fitful hours each night and met  wonderful, wonderful people and then had to leave them a short time later with no clue when we’ll meet again.  I worried about Jana until she [...]

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This I Believe

August 9th, 2008 · by John · 9 Comments

Delivered at the Sunstone Symposium on August 9th, 2008.  A portion of this appeared in an earlier post. I believe in the power of storytelling. Specifically, I believe that I have the ability to shape my relationship to the universe and insert beauty into my world through the life narrative I co-opt and create. Once [...]

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keeping up my end of the bargain

January 8th, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments

I don’t really feel that I’ve been pulling my feminist weight around here recently (and that big long post about American Gladiators really rose from my husband’s comment; I expanded it because I wasn’t certain all our dear readers knew what AG was). And that really also means I’ve not been pulling my blogging weight [...]

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