Archive: August 2005
Bias
In black and white?
Black man loots, white people find.
Two comments, or, How I got over wanting to be like my father
Seeing lots of family this past weekend got me thinking about mine.
My father died at the age of 55, when I was 24. He was a Foreign Service officer, and I wanted to be like him.
When I was an undergraduate, I was very unfocused, taking courses in wildly differing areas and not doing anything very [...]
San Juan Island
Just back from a family wedding on San Juan Island. We flew to Seattle, rented a car, hooked up with family, drove to Anacortes and took the ferry to San Juan. The ferry is nicely accessible, with an elevator from the car deck up to the people deck (whatever that’s called). The hour long ferry [...]
(Full Post)Fucking Cobblestones
Excellent! Check out the picture at the very end of Lisy Babe’s “Give my Grandad’s teeth back”.
(Full Post)Nine Black Skirts
I have three kids going back to school in a week and a half, and we’re going to my nephew’s wedding next weekend. This confluence of events means that I’ve been a shopping maniac for the last several weeks.
After several false starts, I think I now have my wedding guest ensemble (thank you, Nordstrom Rack!). [...]
Trite
Phrases I don’t ever need to hear/read again:
But you look so good!
I have MS, but it doesn’t have me!
I’m gonna beat this thing!
You either give in…or fight it. I’m gonna fight it!
It’s all in the attitude.
Don’t you worry—a cure is around the corner…look how far they’ve come with cancer.
You’re still walking though, aren’t you?
It [...]
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