This is the tenth and final post in a series onhow I came to be where I am around the current election. Image credit: Photo of atotally kick ass pumpkin byladybugbkt on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons This election season has been my perfect storm. I came in emotionally raw, haunted by the ghosts of the [...]
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Getting Nowhere Slowly
This post is the ninth in a (slowly developing) series onhow I came to be where I am around the current election. Image credit: Photo byfeastoffools on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons Recently, I've noticed a particular tense, worked up feeling I get about how wrong other people are. It's a kind of quivering moral outrage [...]
I Am Not Falling in Love with Barack Obama
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 [...]
Sarah Palin and the Myth of Special Needs Supermoms
This post is the seventh in a (slowly developing) series onhow I came to be where I am around the current election,and the third post about the candidates themselves. Sarah Palin and I have very different moral, political and spiritual beliefs. We have had very different experiences as women and mothers. I'm sure there are [...]
John McCain Hypnotized Me
This post is the sixth in a series on how I came to be where I am around the current election,and the second in a series of posts about the candidates themselves. I was going to do Barack Obama next, but a comment Willow made aboutBill Clinton's powerful magnetism made me think John McCain should [...]
I Am Hillary Clinton
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 [...]
Working Out my Crazies
This post is the fourth in a series on how I came to be where I am around the current election. I should also note that there are still two comments on my last post that I want to respond to,but since I was finding myself a bit distracted, I'm temporarily moving on and hoping [...]
My Husband Is Still a Sex Addict
This post is both the third in a (proposed) series on how I came to be where I am around the current election (um, how it fits in there will make sense later) and is cross posted at the Second Road. Image credit: Photo byLst1984 on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons One evening four years ago, [...]
I Am Other
This post is the second in a (proposed) series on how I came to be where I am around the current election. Image credit: Photo byBethany L. King on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons The day I had my abortion, or maybe the day after, I was lying in bed, resting. I'm an obsessive record keeper, [...]
Two Losses
This post is the first in a (proposed) series on how I came to be where I am around the current election. Image credit: Photo byh.koppdelaney on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons Four years ago, I was horrified by where we in the United States were as a country. I was sickened and disgusted by our [...]
