"Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is.You have to see it for yourself."~Morpheus I got a mere one paragraph (the final paragraph, oddly enough) into my promised post on Silda Spitzer and the nature of the universe (I know, that's my problem, I think small) when I realized that I might want [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2008’
Points of View (a Prologue)
Photo credit: Photo by QwirkSilver on Flickr After the 2004 US presidential election, I was shocked and depressed. (Now, whether you agree with my politics or not, stay with me. As with so many things with me, it will all come back around.) I couldn't believe that after all of George W. Bush's dumbassery, after [...]
Silda Spitzer’s Message
This is also posted at Two Women Blogging Photo credit: Photo by MotherPie on Flickr I was driving to pick one of my kids up from school for a dental appointment when I caught the words "prostitution ring" (just those two words) on the car radio and turned up the volume to find out who [...]
What the Hell Are You Doing Haikuing about Prostitutes?!
Why would someone pay4000 dollars for sex?One word: discretion. In case you missed the reference in the title, a video for you. And I know, as with all of South Park, I should be offended, but Chef yelling at James Taylor always cracks me up.
Oo, I’m Excited!
One of my blogging BFFs, the brilliant and talented Mantramine, has got her t-shirt shop up and running! Mantra wants you to wear what you believe. And I have to say, after telling you what my God is not, and reading what Mantra's god is, I'm eying "god is a state of being" t-shirt myself. [...]
The Junky’s Wife Teaches You Addict Math
Photo credit: Photo by Akash k on Flickr For your reading pleasure, I have asked the Junky's Wife if I could include some comments she made to me about the costs of addiction in relation to Eliot Spitzer. Her calculations, from what I experienced with my husband, are dead on and had me rolling on [...]
How Do You Know an Addict Is an Addict?
Quick Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor or a mental health expert (but I do have a doctor around who will correct me if I'm wrong). What follows is what I've learned about the signs and symptoms of addiction and my own opinions on how to recognize it. Photo credit: Photo by mondoagogo on Flickr A [...]
Circles within Circles (or Understanding the Stars — and Eliot Spitzer)
Three weeks ago, Eliot Spitzer was Governor of New York and the model of an upstanding citizen. Two weeks ago, he became embroiled in scandal and admitted to hiring prostitutes. The media was all over the story: less dissecting it, than tearing it apart like a school of piranha. It boiled up and died down, [...]
Belated Happy Blogging Birthday to the Junky’s Wife
Those of you who have been reading me for a while know of my longstanding blog love affair with The Junky's Wife. Our blogs were born less than a month apart, and JW is one of the first bloggers I connected with when I was a little itty bitty baby blogger. Since then, she and [...]
Helping a Fellow Blogger
I wanted to let you all know about something special that Bella at Beyond the Map is helping to organize for Jeni at The Comfy Place. Jeni is a single mom to a son who is about the same age as mine, and she has Stage Four colon cancer. Bella and friends are working on [...]
