Monthly Archives: February 2008

Happy February 29th.

This is the first February 29th for this blog. I began at blog­ger in Novem­ber of 2004, mis­sing the leap by many months. If this is to be one of many leap year posts, or the sole leap year post for “won­der­land or not”, I can’t say, but I thought it was worth men­tio­ning. His­to­ri­cal

My Message in a Bottle

Fran­cis from “In the Stream” attached to me with this lovely little mes­sage in a bottle meme, which ori­gi­na­ted at “Mimi Wri­tes”.
I thought I’d do it to break up the “poli­ti­cal ten­sion”.
I like this idea. You grab the blank image from Mimi and mess with it in any photo edi­tor, adding your message.You then

Dear Great, Great Uncle Ralphie.

Ralph Nader, like the child who doesn’t want to play hide and seek yet never hesi­ta­tes to go around telling Sammy where Mary is hiding. Like that child, he is chan­ging the rules of the game while not really being affec­ted by the results. Like that child, Ralph, quite aware what he does could

A Letter To My Body — Sticks and Stones

A let­ter to my body, as part of BlogHer’s “Let­ters to My Body ini­tia­tive”.
You can par­ti­ci­pate as well, so check them all out.
My let­ter to my body is a thank you let­ter.
I want to thank my body for what it has allo­wed me to do, and I want to make a few pro­mi­ses to