domestic dilettante, humorless feminist shrew

Last weekend, I finally managed to get my garden put in. After the stunning failure of last year’s garden, I decided not to start my own seeds this year, but to go buy a bunch of plants and see what happened. So I went off and spent about $25 on plants, and then I spend [...]

I’ve been quiet lately–not for any real reason, but just because I’ve been feeling quiet. Sometimes it’s like that. You understand. What’s broken my seclusion, then? I’ve been visited by the cheese fairy. [pretend there is a picture here. a picture of someone from Wisconsin, maybe, or France. someone who has wings and is carrying [...]

Like everyone else on the internet, I saw the recent reports of the woman who tossed a cat into a wheelie bin, closed the bin, and walked away, leaving the cat trapped in the bin for sixteen hours. Almost as well-covered has been the woman’s apology. I want to take this opportunity to apologise profusely [...]

As some of you already know, I’m pretty much addicted to Google Reader. This evening I was reading and came across this article, which is about a donor who pledged a million bucks to her alma mater…on the condition that the staff lost a collective 250 pounds. If the president loses 25 pounds, the donor [...]

A while back, I posted about why my daughter’s not allowed to watch Disney movies, and I said that eventually I’d be posting part two. This is part two. Eventually, I’ll be posting part three, about misogyny in Disney movies, because it turns out that I have a lot to say about this. Two quick [...]

So, internet, it’s been a while! It turns out that summer is really hot, and I don’t have air conditioning, so most of what I’ve been doing involves lounging on my bed and considering dumping frozen blueberries into my underwear. I’ve also visited my in-laws down in Florida, shipped my daughter off for two weeks [...]

This is 2/3 of what we did this week: The first one is from Margaret Atwood’s poem Spelling: My daughter plays on the floor with plastic letters, red, blue & hard yellow, learning how to spell, spelling, how to make spells. I wonder how many women denied themselves daughters, closed themselves in rooms, drew the [...]

Slight delay on the rest of the Disney posts. I got a concussion (cat, stairway, low crossbeam) on Friday and have been out of commission for a couple of days. The bruise on my head has receded, but the pain has not, nor has the very attractive lump on my forehead. I look like a [...]

This is the first of two posts about Disney movies and why I don’t like my daughter to watch them. Part two should be up sometime next week. Obligatory disclaimer before I even start writing this post: it’s about Disney movies, and, more specifically, Disney Princess movies. I realize that Disney has other movies and [...]