I have a friend who is a concert violinist. She’s also a retired teacher–from private lessons to fifty-student orchestras, she taught them all for over thirty years. She has a masters degree. In the last few years she converted to Judaism and now she’s learning Hebrew. She also writes great mysteries (not in Hebrew.) She’s […]
So if you’ve been around lately, you may have read that due to a Financial Aid issue, I had to pay for my spring semester myself, and I found this out two days before tuition was due. That wiped me out. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have $500 just lying around. I
Because Dental Care is a Luxury, Some People are Poor, and Toothaches HURT Read More ยป
I’m too tired to both blog and do my 750 words ย (damn you, registration!), so have some of my 750 from yesterday. First, so i throw some words on this blog, and second, because it might be interesting, and third, so I remember because there’s something here I want to remember, I just can’t pick
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The other day when I had no brain at all (no jokes about how often that happens, please!) but I didn’t want to waste any more of my summer in unproductivity, I addressed all those broken posts from *cough* years ago when I moved my blog onto wordpress. I’ve been blogging for eight years, since
Once Upon a Time in Blog-City Read More ยป
That’s been the case for some time now, but it struck me today. Nearly all my close friends are women. Obviously if I’m commenting on it, this is not how it has always been. I grew up running wild with two brothers. My favorite playmate-cousin was a boy. Yes, I had a female best friend
My Friends are Women Read More ยป
“The sight of an innocent person suffering without possibility of reward or compensation motivated people to devalue the attractiveness of the victim in order to bring about a more appropriate fit between her fate and her character.” via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan. I’m quite certain I meant to say something about that.