Archive for the ‘Real Ranting’ Category
I’ve got a lot of posts in the works but haven’t been able to finish them up due to a sick little tyke in the house. Sick kids are the worst, I mean he’s been great, a perfect champ about it, it’s just the dealing with it [fevers waking everyone to watch Kung Fu Panda [...]
National Blog Posting Month? Been there done that. And here’s what I think: I don’t like telling you what I think. At least, not every day. Not by force. It’s not that I don’t have a lot of stuff to write about, it’s that at my age I’m trying to cultivate a healthy reservedness. I [...]
I know you all have been wondering what I think about all this OWS stuff so I thought I’d relieve the suspense and weigh in, spurred in fact by the midnight eviction of the protestors. While it sucks, any oppression is good oppression for a movement to thrive. Just go search for #OWS and you’ll [...]
Stopped by Zuccotti park this morning on my way in. When I heard the subway bell chime “Wall Street!” I jumped up and hurried out, excited to go visit the group of “protesters” I consider like family friends visiting in the park. I wanted to check on them, wish them well, well, I wasn’t sure [...]
You’ll find a list of methods to induce labor by googling it (100′s of lists) in addition to a wide array of cultural traditions passed on to you orally by well-meaning coworkers and community members. What you don’t find out there is many people saying these things didn’t work – they probably don’t take the [...]
When Michele Obama recommends breastfeeding, which, by the way, every health organization does already, she isn’t talking to educated women in the cities and the suburbs who already know about the issue. She isn’t talking to women who have tried and failed. She isn’t trying to find another way to add financial burden to the [...]
I used to hate Facebook and here’s why: I thought it was such a cheap way to connect. Cheap in the slutty, random hook-up at a college party kind of way. Meaningless, full of drama, and people were making such a big f-in deal about it. Me? I was much holier than thou…
Rome, he’s 13 months now, he’s trying so hard to both walk and talk right now. When I pick him up from day care and he is so excited to see me that he isn’t thinking about it, he’ll take 8 or 10 steps straight. They tell me how at circle time he said Apple [...]
In the United States we don’t often speak of slavery. Most think of it as a dark period in our history, something that should be behind us. Few want to think of it at all. Even less realize this about it: slavery still exists today. You might have heard a story about a badly treated [...]
Here’s an idea that’s got me intrigued and I’m considering doing and I thought you’d want to consider doing too, and yes, Michael, you can too!
Get yer blog posts here!