While listening to an interview between Michele Norris on NPR and Bart Stupak, Democratic member of Congress from Michigan, I became outraged. Go figure. It’s so rare for me…
Anyway, I wrote about why I’m incensed over at The Women’s Colony. Check it out and see if you don’t agree. And if you wait long enough, [...]
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5 March 2010 with 2 comments
I ran into the mother of one of Ruby’s little classmates yesterday when I was picking my girl up from school. We’d barely gotten past the daily niceties when she said, “Well, I got my pink slip today.”
She’s a teacher and like previous years, as the state of California faces a never-ending and unfathomable budget [...]
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4 March 2010 with 1 comment
My favorite Facebook status update from today:
“Tim Wise thinks he understands the right-wing anger over the President’s education speech & the importance of hard work in school. See, they prefer the last President–the one who bragged at Yale commencement about being a lazy, mediocre C student, and told them how that was ok, because you [...]
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8 September 2009 tagged Time Wise with no comments
This is the Old Cedar Mill in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, the quaint and charming town where my husband grew up. At Christmas time, the lone fire department plays classic carols through externally mounted speakers and the notes drift through the air and mix with the scent of sugar from the local candy store, creating a tearful [...]
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7 September 2009 with 13 comments
After we tucked the girl into bed last night, we watched Bill Maher interview one of my all time favorite people, Bill Moyers. If I were to have a dinner party and could invite any three people on the planet, he would be one of them. Moyers spoke about health care for all citizens as [...]
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29 August 2009 with 2 comments
If your life were coming to an end, and you knew it, how would you spend your last days? Would you wallow? Or would you sing duets?
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26 August 2009 with 2 comments
H/T Nick Stoffel, baby lover extraordinaire, KPBS producer and my friend. Yes, I’m name dropping because I’m just a star fucker at heart.
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21 August 2009 with 10 comments
In the midst of the increasingly toxic healthcare debate—if it can even be called a debate any more—I’ve spent quite a lot of time thinking about my own eventual demise. I’ve come to the conclusion that I am either going to A) suffer a massive stroke at an early-ish age, B) live to be old [...]
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18 August 2009 with 6 comments
I have something to say about citizens bringing guns to Presidential events.
Which is perhaps more inflammatory than the swimsuit worn by that…person…in my previous post. Or, perhaps not. You be The Decider.
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17 August 2009 with no comments