Ok. In the last post, I detailed how I realized I mattered in relation to the abortion issue. Go read it. I’ll wait. Now, I am going to expand on it a bit as I cross over into my personal life. As is my way, I’m going to tell you a long, meandering story about… Continue Reading
I Matter
I matter. You matter. We all matter. Right now, though, I’m going to talk about the first one. Why? Because for far too long, I haven’t thought that I mattered. Not in a global sense (such as, where do I fit in this world). Not in a societal sense (such as, I am no benefit… Continue Reading
You Like Me! You Really, Really Like Me!
Thank you, thank you so much for this award. I am quite emotional, and I don’t know what to say. I mean, I don’t have a speech prepared, so I’m just going to have to ad-lib it. First, I would like to thank all the little people–what? What award am I accepting? Why, the… Continue Reading
The Baser Side of Me
I’m still grieving. I have read many things in lefty blogs about Dr. Tiller’s murder, and I can’t seem to shake it. Partly because I was lulled into thinking that this kind of violence was in the past. Partly because I am just so damn discouraged at how the GOP still gets to define how… Continue Reading
Sick at Heart
I am grieving today for a man I’ve never met. Until this day, I was only vaguely aware of him. Who is this man? Dr. George Tiller, a Wichita doctor who performed late-term abortions. He was one of only three doctors in the country to handle such abortions. Read the section called Jesus’s Jihadis. And today,… Continue Reading
An Elegy for…Me
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to pass the mourning of Minna E. Hong. Now, of course, I am not dead–otherwise this would be a pretty freaky post. However, I am slowly letting go of the me that I have been for the last fifteen years or so. You see, after I graduated… Continue Reading
Touched, Humbled, and Honored
A very dear friend (whom I’ve never met as she currently lives in France) named Jamie who has the marvelous cooking blog, Life’s A Feast, bestowed upon me the Bella Award which is for “One Lovely Blog”. Now, lovely is not the first word I would affix to my blog, but I am touched, humbled, and… Continue Reading
Life is But a Dream
This is MY brain, and you’re only peeking into it. As I have blogged about before, I dream a lot. I remember at least one dream a night, and my dreams are, with very few exceptions, nightmares. Last night’s dream was no exception, but it was a strange sort of nightmare. Therefore, I am… Continue Reading
She’s a Spicy Tamale!
And so it begins. Even before Sonia Sotomayor was picked by Obama as his first SCOTUS nominee, the monkeys started howling about how unfit she was. I blogged about the indignation here. In that entry, I deconstructed what racism feels like (as much as I could) and how white privilege is rampant and unexamined (by… Continue Reading
Fuck You, California
Subtitled: I’m taking my next vacation in Iowa. First of all, I am not a lawyer. I don’t play one on TV, and I don’t purport to understand all the complexities of our legal system. I wanted to get that out of the way because I want my not-so-gentle readers to be clear that what… Continue Reading