To BlogHer I Come
So I get home from work tonight and all I have to do to get ready for the trip is two loads of laundry and throw a bunch of crap in a bag. When I mentioned this to my boss, she shivered and said she’d freak out if she weren’t completely packed the day before [...]
...read moreHappy Belated Birthday
…To the ADA, whose sixteenth Gordon K mentioned in comments. Because I never pay attention, I didn’t notice the date even though I just spent a long time searching up information and blog posts on the ADA’s fifteenth anniversary, one year ago today. Of course. Blue at The Gimp Parade has a post up, with [...]
...read moreBut Women Don’t Have Sex For Fun!
In a not terribly startling finding, a new study has found that over 50% of Australian women have had (gasp!) casual sex: In a study of more than 650 women of all ages, 53 per cent admitted to having a mate for regular but non-committed sex during their lifetime. Sexologist Stacey Demarco said this type [...]
...read moreMeet Margery/Marjorie Kempe!
(I had better search results with the first one.) She was a fourteenth-century mystic who wrote The Book of Margery Kempe. Following the birth of her first child, Margery fell ill and feared for her life. After a failed confession that resulted in a bout of self-described “madness,” Margery Kempe had a vision that called [...]
...read moreBad Mad Mommy
Sheerly Avni reviewed Adrienne Martini’s book, Hillbilly Gothic, in the Chronicle. I’m curious: “My family has a grand tradition. After a woman gives birth, she goes mad.” So opens journalist, mother and intermittently insane memoirist Adrienne Martini’s “Hillbilly Gothic.” It is a promising opening line for a book that is also a worthy endeavor. Part [...]
...read moreAndrea Yates Not Guilty
But because she pleaded an insanity defense, she’s likely to spend the rest of her life in a mental institution. Yates, 42, will now be committed to a state mental hospital, with periodic hearings before a judge to determine whether she should be released. An earlier jury had found her guilty of murder, but the [...]
...read moreThank Goodness for the ADA
Courtesy of The Gimp Parade, an article about a Temporarily-Able-Bodied Person who became Temporarily Disabled: One year ago today I collapsed on a golf course with a back injury. Not to get too technical, but things went absolutely cattywampus in my spine and shut down the nerves to my legs. For two weeks I had [...]
...read moreHmm.
Tekanji put up a post on Alas off of Blogging While Black. Rachel S said this in comments: sly civilian said, “I don’t know nearly enough about this important subject, and i consider your blogging to be my sole source of information.” Excellent point. Which is why these sorts of backhanded compliments are not really [...]
...read moreSetting Off
I won’t be around much for the next two weeks, because tomorrow I’m setting off on an adventure through Turkey, Serbia, Croatia and wherever else I end up. I’m looking forward to it. I’ll be spending five days in Istanbul, then going on to Belgrade, Zagreb, Dubrovnik and Skopje. I’ll also be celebrating the big [...]
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