Last week, thirty-eight members of my state senate joined the ranks of cowardly, bigoted, ignorant, fearful homophobes all around the country by defeating a measure to approve same-sex marriage.
I want someone to explain it in words I can understand, someone intelligent and articulate to help me make it make sense.
What’s the danger, people? What is [...]
Archive for the ‘containing myself’ Category
I’m asking again: How long?
Posted in brain freeze, containing myself, homophobia, prejudice, what now?, tagged brain freeze, containing myself, dumb-ass crap, homophobia, prejudice, what now?, who's in a sour mood today?, WTF?!?! on 8 December 2009 | 4 Comments »
Ahem…
Posted in NaBloPoMo, NaNoWriMo, containing myself, writing, tagged containing myself, NaBloPoMo, NaNoWriMo, writing on 30 November 2009 | 17 Comments »
First, I have just one thing to say:
Oh, and that would actually be 55,981 words, in my case. Just saying.
Whew! Wasn’t sure I’d make it. And, in truth, I really shouldn’t have. I did most of the writing in the last week … which, if you weren’t sure, is INSANE! I’m pretty happy with [...]
Going Up?
Posted in NaBloPoMo, choose your own adventure, containing myself, out and about, show me the money!, women, tagged choose your own adventure, containing myself, money, NaBloPoMo, out and about, show me the money!, women on 21 November 2009 | 2 Comments »
As my current sidebar says, I’m on the board of WE LEARN (Women Expanding Literacy Education Action Resource Network), and right now we’re in the difficult position of needing to raise a significant amount of money in a relatively short time. I’m asking the folks I know to make donations if they can, asking my [...]
Connecting the dots.
Posted in NaBloPoMo, brain freeze, choose your own adventure, containing myself, family, full disclosure?, mothers and daughters, race and racism, teaching, where we're from, tagged backstories, choose your own adventure, containing myself, family, full disclosure?, mothers and daughters, NaBloPoMo, race and racism, teaching, the family adventure, where we're from on 20 November 2009 | 10 Comments »
After the surprise of seeing photos of the matriarchs in my family, my students stumbled over what those photos were saying to them. We had, you’ll remember, just been talking about the “shock” of discovering that Michelle Obama has a white person (at least one) in her family tree. That was, of course, the reason [...]
Saw this one coming …
Posted in containing myself, no wonder I'm single!, tagged silliness on 15 November 2009 | 4 Comments »
How foolish and funny is this:
1930s Marital Scale
You can take a 100-question husband or wife quiz (so fair-minded!). I originally took the quiz about year ago and scored a 34, making me a “Poor” 1930s wife. Yeah. I took it again today …
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As a 1930s wife, I am
Very Poor (Failure)
Take the test!
Quel surprise! Clearly in [...]
