Oct 31st, 2009
by Mary P Jones.
Image credit: Photo by BGLewandowski on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I rashly went out Halloween costume shopping a few days ago. I'm not sure what I was thinking. Well, I know I needed to pick up a costume for my daughter — Yes, a few days shy of Halloween. I'm totally on top of [...]
Jan 11th, 2009
by Mary P Jones.
The Maven (and believe me, if you don't know the Maven, you should) was playing the interview game on her blog. I know I've done some variation of this like 5000 times in the past year, but it's always fun, and in this case, it got the Maven to e-mail me some words she handpicked [...]
Nov 4th, 2008
by Mary P Jones.
Image credit: Photo bymacwagen on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons It's the day of elections here in the U.S., and I'm ready to vote as soon as the kids get home from school. Mark thinks I'm crazy, but I'm taking the two of them with me to the polls. He shook his head this morning and [...]
Oct 15th, 2008
by Mary P Jones.
This post is the eighth in a (slowly developing) series onhow I came to be where I am around the current election,and the fourth post about the candidates themselves. Image credit: Photo byJessica DeWinter on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons A friend of Mark's and mine fell in love recently. You know that intoxicating feeling of [...]
Sep 23rd, 2008
by Mary P Jones.
This post is the fifth in a series on how I came to be where I am around the current election,and the first in a series of posts about the candidates themselves. I fell in love with Hillary Clinton during the 1992 presidential election. I hadn't been out of college long and was just starting [...]
Sep 2nd, 2008
by Mary P Jones.
It sometimes takes me a long time to get around to things. If you've been in touch with me by e-mail, you know how this works. Sometimes I write you right back. Sometimes, months after the fact, when you've forgotten you've ever written, I pop you a note back. And sometimes (although you don't see [...]
Sep 2nd, 2008
by Mary P Jones.
I spent the whole weekend obsessing about the US election. Obsessing. Couldn't stop thinking about it. I was having emotional reactions that were way out of proportion to any actual events. And I felt terrible. By yesterday afternoon I was in the throes of a migraine, making good on my threat that if I didn't [...]
Aug 11th, 2008
by Mary P Jones.
A while back several of you asked how I was doing in the wake of Hillary's loss of the nomination to Obama. I'm still not ready to talk about it, but this Doonesbury cartoon (from Thursday, July 31) pretty much sums up where I am right now. Apologies for not posting the comic here, but [...]
Apr 23rd, 2008
by Mary P Jones.
I was going to write a followup (or two or three) on yesterday's post about my son, but that will have to wait for tomorrow, because as I was driving home from dropping my daughter off at school, I heard something on the radio that spun me off into political rant mode. So, I cruised [...]
Feb 28th, 2008
by Mary P Jones.
You all know how the song goes: honesty is such a lonely word. Yep, and everyone is so untrue. Or to take us into the current century and an entirely different pop culture icon: Everyone lies. Tell me that you never lie, and like House, I'll tell you you're lying. Yet, if you're anything like [...]