Opera
A week ago I went to the Opera. I go about once a year, when my mother-in-law gives me a ticket. This year I got her ticket because she had to go to a funeral -- so I went with her friends, which is...
View ArticleFatwas against yoga
I do not understand fatwas. Not being Muslim, this should not be surprising. I was recently sent a news story about some clerics in Malaysia who have issued a fatwa against yoga. This is surprising...
View ArticleDeep Winter
It is deep winter here in the City on the Lake. Its unbelievably cold. There is nearly a foot of snow on the ground. The wind chill is incredible. The stress of commuting to work is tremendous....
View ArticleHarvey Milk
I saw the movie MILK last night -- the only one of the Oscar movies I really wanted to see. The others seemed so dreary . I have no desire to see Slumdog Millionaire, being afflicted with a sadistic...
View ArticleTaxes
I have finished my taxes. With some trepidation, they are now efiled. I spent all weekend updating my Quicken, so I would have accurate information as to "educational expenses" for my child and...
View ArticleDead computers
Sorry for the lack of posting. Going over a month and a half without posting anything is ridiculous, especially in a blog that was meant to have new posts every night. Over the winter I was trying to...
View ArticleSwearing
I just read Thers at Whiskey Fire for the first time on his home blog. I have read him before, when he posts on Eschaton (i.e., the blog of Atrios, though as far as I know not related to the House of...
View ArticleThe Winds of Change
I feel unsettled tonight, as if things are happening out there that are about to strike. Things are happening to my friends, good, bad and indifferent -- some graduations, some divorces, some moves,...
View ArticleRandom thoughts again
Haven't written in a while -- its been a busy summer. I feel like there's barely been time to breathe. And I need sleep. Beautiful sleep.I think the computer problems I've had this spring into...
View ArticleToledo
Went to Toledo this weekend for a memorial service. I sat with my ex-husband's girlfriend who commented that it was very different from the Russian funerals in her family: everyone is weighed down...
View ArticleWolves
While I was on vacation in Vermont, I finally finished a book I've been reading for a while: "How to Cook a Wolf" by MFK Fisher. Fisher wrote it in 1942, right as the US was coming out of depression...
View ArticleMore Wolves
Here's the thing: I love Whole Foods. I love the fact that when you walk into my local Whole Foods, you walk into the fruits and vegetables section, and its beautiful. There are so many different...
View ArticleHolding patterns
Life is on hold. I applied for a job, I interviewed for said job, and now I'm waiting to hear. I thought I'd know by the end of last week ... but latest word is they are still deliberating. Nice....
View ArticleRandom thoughts in no particular order
1) I will be flying to Vermont for Christmas, braving the surly airline industry. With reluctance. Because there is no other remotely sane way to get from here to there with a 10-year-old in a...
View ArticleInspiration? Not.
I am not feeling inspired to write. I have a post whirling around in my head: I think I should have something to say, but what? What exactly? When I think about tackling it ... I look at Facebook...
View ArticleOn Candidates and Elections
Here in Illinois, we have another election in less than a month – 20 days or so, actually. Wait, you say – didn’t you just have an election? Why, yes, yes, we did. We had a special congressional...
View ArticleInvasions
I do not like living in a police state. What, you say, we're a long way from Communist Germany and the Stasi or the religious police in Saudi Arabia or Nazi Germany .... maybe. Maybe not.O'Hare got...
View ArticleTo borrow from Atrios
What he said:My Congressman, Bart Stupak, Has Neither a Uterus Nor a Brain ...a letter from Michael Moore
View ArticleOdds and Ends and Crankiness
1. Dan Lipinski is a bad Catholic who couldn't give a shit about helping the poor and the friendless, who disses nuns, and is arrogant besides (arrogant being the opposite of humble, just in case you...
View ArticleTea
I have a problem with tea. I drink tea everyday, all day. This is not the problem. Tea is relatively healthy for you, especially if you manage to drink it without additives. Its pretty good for...
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