Looking back at the past year, which was easily the most anemic ever in terms of how much I worked on the .org, it’s clear that I’ve lost enthusiasm for a lot of the political stuff I’ve been so interested in for so long. I entered the year eager to see how Obama would handle himself at the start of his presidency, and I have to admit that I let my hopes get up after his inauguration speech, when he delivered a pretty stinging rebuke…
Yes, there will be a .journal update sometime this weekend to commemorate the .org turning nine years old earlier this month. My life has become painfully hectic since Mom went to the hospital a couple of months ago, and those of you who have been following my Twitter feed know about all of the other stuff that has popped up. I’m keeping the personal stuff close to my chest right now because I really can’t talk too much about that, particularly when so much of…
The medical issues this family has had over the past two years have been troublesome. I was hoping that at some point I would be able to write in detail here about Dad’s death last year, but there are some outside considerations that are preventing me from saying much about what happened to him. For now, I drive past the hospital where he died (and where I was born so long ago) every time I go to and from work, and every time I see…
Working with people around the age of eighteen years old as much as I do reminds me a lot of what I was like when I was that age. I’d say "that age" lasted a lot longer than just a year or two for me, because it feels like a lot of my personal development got put on hold after I left Antioch and didn’t resume until I started going back to college six years later. For that matter, I’ve always said that I never…
One of my new favourite places to shop online is torrid.com. Torrid is basically Hot Topic for larger women like myself, and I don’t know how I didn’t find out about them sooner. Granted, they make the kind of clothes I wear when I’m having a social life versus when I’m in my professional life, and I’ve only recently begun having a social life again, but you’d think I would have heard something about them. My one visit to their store in Toledo, about a…