What’s so hard here? #OWS
I should be writing at paper right now, but I’ve been reading and watching a lot of the media in the wake of the Occupy Oakland protests the other night. I’ve been following a lot of the Occupy media...
View ArticleWeight, Weight-loss, and Health At Every Size
I got into the Fat Acceptance movement awhile back, and as many people know, I was really into it. I was excited about it, and was happy to find people who had the same disgust at societal body norms...
View ArticleWhy? (#OWS #OccupySF #OccupyOakland)
I was going to sit and write an anecdote about a conversation I had the other day with someone who felt that charities could provide all the social services needed to help people out. I pointed out...
View ArticleMade of Fail
I was reading about Paula Deen’s announcement that she had Type II diabetes, and has been dealing with it for awhile. The comments I’ve seen have made me angry. It gets me that there are attitudes that...
View ArticleWords can kill.
Rev. Snark sent the 4M a link to this article in Rolling Stone about a town that has had 9 suicides of teens who identified as queer, or were perceived as queer. That’s 9 suicides in two years. Let me...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Anne Rice
Dear Ms. Rice, You posted the following on Facebook the other day (and followed up with a few other posts along the same vein): “As I said before, I fear Christianity. I have found it to be an immoral...
View ArticleWalking In Between Witchcraft and Christianity
The hardest thing about being Wiccan and Christian is being both in a world that expects you to be either/or. Even for the most liberal minded, on either side, there can be a subtle, unconscious idea...
View ArticleWhy I Demitted from the Order of Eastern Star
I know some people probably assumed that lack of time and going to grad school were the main reasons I demitted from the Order of Eastern Star. (These are true, for the most part, and I’d include my...
View ArticleWhen activism becomes what it shouldn’t
I want to talk about something that will poke a lot of my fellow seminary students, and maybe even quite a few people in the various social media outlets I’m on. There are a lot of posts about...
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When you work in a lab, there’s significant down time in which one has no other purpose than to think. Honestly, there’s not much else to do when you have a thirty minute incubation and you’ve...
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The Internet, Gadgets, and Me
Cartoon by Rosangela Ludovico You can’t go anywhere on the internet these days without some sort of article about how smartphones are making us stupid, or complaining about how no one talks to each...
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Blessed Samhain
Hail to the Ancestors! Hail the Beloved Dead! What is remembered, lives.
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