I decided that since we are in a period of history that will be studied, I am getting back into blogging. It used to be that writing was a way for me to get all my stress out. Then my stress just got to be too much. Moving to a new climate zone, getting married, trying to get pregnant, trying… Read more »
It baffles me that people are so weirded out about letting gays and lesbians get married. Their arguments are ridiculous and illogical. Today I saw a new one. If you want to let everyone get married, then brothers and sisters could marry each other. First of all, gross. Second of all, that’s a genetic time bomb waiting to go off…. Read more »
Did you know that there are missing moon rocks? Seriously. Yesterday I read this article in the Sacramento Bee about how some moon rocks from Apollo 11 mysteriously turned up in a storage room in Minnesota. My cousin said it best, “Well this is a little ridiculous. Who misplaces moon rocks?” Apparently, 11 other states can’t find their moon rocks… Read more »
Not many people can claim to have ancestors on both the Mayflower and the Santa Maria, but I can. Of course, so can my sister and her kids, but that’s besides the point. I know about these two things because of technology. I found the Mayflower ancestors through www.ancestry.com. The Santa Maria ancestors I already knew about, but did some… Read more »
Regardless of your party affiliation, you should vote on Tuesday. In the not too distant past, it was a struggle for people to vote in our own country. A mere 9 years before I was born, the Voting Rights Act was passed. It appalls me to think of the violence people met with just by exercising their constitutional rights. I… Read more »
Today I noticed a tweet by Wired that caught my eye: I had seen the trailers for this movie, but other than the fact that Ben Affleck was in it, I wasn’t really interested. The government makes a fake movie to cover something up? Sounds like Wag the Dog to me. OK, they faked a war by using a movie… Read more »
Eleven years ago, I remember a clear, warm evening in San Francisco. I was at the Cheesecake Factory with my best friend. I think we had just come back from a trip to Las Vegas to celebrate her birthday. It was my aunt’s birthday and I had forgotten to call her to wish her a Happy Birthday, but I knew… Read more »