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Finns Reunite…Again

The view from our Jersey City roots, July, 2008.

Left to right: My nephew Joe, great-nephew Peter, sister Babs (behind Joe’s shoulder), neice-in-law Stephanie, great-niece, Mary, brother Mike (in back with sunglasses), sister-in-law Sue, niece Tarin, sister-in-law Annie (half her face not visible), sister Mary (in front of Annie), me, sister Joanie (next to Annie), sister-in-law […]

The Impotence of Worry

I have joined a Yahoo! group for US families adopting from Ethiopia. My reasons are to gather information from folks about their experiences. I’ve gleaned a few hard useful facts that will help us ease our child’s journey (when that moment arrives), but for the most part, this group appears dedicated to assuaging the worries […]

DVR, Dr. Phil, and Why I Don’t Fit In

To get more sleep, I got myself a DVR to record John Stewart and Stephen Colbert. I know they re-air at 8 pm the following evening, but I’m usually not in front of the TV until about 9:30, so I saw the general “necessity” (read in the context of my white pseudo-bourgeois lifestyle) to have […]

“Off With Their Heads!” “Give us Barabbas!” and Other Musings About The Culture of Retribution

I am a day late in the May 1 Blogging Against Disablism event. Life intervened on my schedule, and I’ve been working on this post for a few days. Although this is tardy, I offer it as my contribution.
A little over a year ago, a student named Cho Seung-Hui went on a shooting rampage at […]

Easter Bunny: Indifferent or Preoccupied with the Price of Eggs?

I should empty out my camera phone more often. Get a load of this Easter bunny. Between him and Blake, I don’t know who’s having the more rollicking great time at the Easter Egg hunt this year:

Five Things

Allison tagged me. Sigh…
As if, after all this blogging, there are five things anyone DOESN’T know about me Seriously, here it is:
5 Things Found In Your Bag
1. Wallet
2. Checkbook
3. Lexapro and Wellbutrin in a pill box
4. Receipts from Lowe’s, Target, and Sally’s
5. Bright Green Hairbrush (so I can find it when I’m digging in […]

Go on! Get OUT There! GOD! These Commercials Make Me NUTS!

I am convinced that the Gitmo prisoners are forced to listen repeatedly to the sound of the voice of that woman on the Royal Caribbean commercials extolling me to “Get OUT There!”
What is it about the search for vacation pleasure that makes me so sick to my stomach? I have gone on vacation to […]

Women and Politics: Not our Turf?

Hear me out before you condemn me as a regressive believer in biology-is-destiny.
The press coverage of the Democratic nomination process has a lot of us wondering how folks who are paid to be analytical and objective can be so swept up by Obama, and so ready to toss Hillary overboard. I just read an article […]

Well Hit Me in the Head with a Brick: I Finally Get It!!

I’ve been moping, no question about it. But moping (in my world meaning protracted depression) does strange things in my brain. I start to get more creative in my thinking, rather involuntarily, and things start to string together in new ways.
Maybe this is just a function of getting older and accumulating experience over experience. […]

Men and Boys: Okay to Hate

What is it about the ability to openly make fun of boys and men?
If I were to get the same number of “joke” emails that I get about boys and men, but the subject were African-Americans, or gays, or girls, or women, or name-your-disempowered group, I’d be considered a bigoted jerk.
In my time in […]