I know the holidays are approaching, and I want to wish those who are celebrating a wonderful season. I personally will be enjoying the weeks off reading while buried in a sea of blankets and imagining that it is snowing outside. And listening to how beautiful "Silent Night" is while replacing the blasphemous lines with …
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Important Questions
Is the giant from Jack and the Beanstalk a cannibal, or is he of an entirely different species than humans? (Also, I never understood why we're supposed to sympathize with Jack--he's a total ass. I get it, he's poor--but after you had the golden eggs, why would you come back for the harp?! He didn't …
9/11
I couldn't write because I don't have a story. I don't remember anything but the towers burning. And animosity. At school I pledged allegiance to a flag half mast and a country I never betrayed a country that had betrayed me. I didn't cry. because I was unworthy of shedding tears. Who cares if the …
On my period
as of two days ago. I must say that recording it here every month is spectacularly helpful in letting me know when to expect it. (Although the telltale cramps the evening before are also unpleasantly helpful.) New to this? Here's an explanation. My nails are red this month. (*makes obscene period joke*) Unfortunately they are …
We are little universes.
Thinking about myself, I realized long ago that I live more in the past and future than I ever live in the present. Recently, however, I recovered something I had forgotten with a start: that not only do I live in another time, but in an entirely invented time. This recollection was met with slight …
The Compassion Principle
(noun)A principle inherent in religion; an interpretational device applied to religious texts and religious practice that emphasizes the religion's essential expression of compassion as it should be emphasized, in assuring that the religion remains true to itself in reinforcing universal aspects of humanity;an interpretational device that can be called upon to overthrow inhumane, violent, or …
happy nail polish tiemz!
Guess what just arrived? =) This month I had actually planned on a beautiful deep red, but I was walking through a hair salon and came across a shade of ...pink. I never imagined I would want to wear a shade of pink, but this is not any shade of pink. Strangely enough, it's a …
the fatal feminist 