Seriously, who?  Jesus didn't.  He said a lot of things that Christians today do not follow at all, but it wasn't Jesus or God, but just our lowly human interpretation that decided we should all feel obligated to belong to an organized money sucking dogmatic group that meets in a building… Read full post »

People who oppose health care reform are the same as people who opposed desegregation of blacks and whites.  Stubborn, ignorant, fearful, greedy, loyal to the status quo because it benefits them regardless of the fact that it's hurting so many others.  Same with gay marriage.  Same wit… Read full post »

Milk Marinaded Pork Loins with Acorn Squash and Kale 

2 pork loins

1 cup milk

1 cup bread crumbs

assorted herbs and spices

canola oil

1 halved acorn squash

 1 cup water

1 bunch kale

2 tbsp olive oil

2 cloves chopped garlic 

I just made this tonight, but I've made… Read full post »

Who cares about Charlie Sheen?  The millions of people who watch 2 and a haf men.  I tried to watch an episode once.   It was SOOOOO BAD!  Totally cheesy, generic bad humor jokes complete with laugh tracks, predictable formulaic sitcom story lines, TERRIBLE ACTING by all.&nbs… Read full post »

I originally started writing this as a comment to Zanelle's post: My Abortion in Japan- Before Choice.  I really think it's amazing she told her story and without any shame.  She is my hero of the day:

John Stewart recently had an episode dealing with the latest anti-abortion legistl… Read full post »

Isn't it funny how we have these prejudices for things we view as weird, that basically we are just too ignorant and unexposed to to understand and truly appreciate.  Prejudice is often not hate filled, (or at least it doesn't start out that way), but rather just wariness of the unknown.… Read full post »

Oops!  There really are people out there!  I was so embarrassed to open my account and find actual comments on my post about Open Salon. 

Wait, so people are reading this?!?!  Oh.  Cool!  Wait, what did I write again?  lol

 All the comments were supportive and… Read full post »

This morning while driving my daughter to preschool in my tiny used Hundai, fighting traffic with all the brand new monster trucks and SUVs in my conservative republican two cow town, listening to NPR reporting on Wisconsin and frustrated as usual with the state of the country, something suddenly occ… Read full post »

I've been really upset and depressed lately at all the obvious Republican backlashing going on in the House, cutting all things social and liberal, like PBS and public school funding, threatening things like Planned Parenthood and the new health care reform, (all of which are only a sliver of the ove… Read full post »

Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses is a witty, revealing take on womanhood in the post modern landscape with a yoga twist.  Claire Dederer is refreshingly honest, even when it's self-implicating of all sorts of illegal activity and psychological conundrums. 

She talks about trying so hard to… Read full post »

Ok so I just spent the morning and half the afternoon reading other people's postings here on Salon and what I don't get is, why don't I have any readers?  How do I get readers?  Why do people with much worse writing skills than me get recognized on the main Salon page? … Read full post »

So I've been trying to wrap my head around why a corporate favored, capitalist abusing economic collapse has lead to, not putting corporations and capitalism in check, but cutting all funding for social programs, including health care, education and public information access.  Why are things lik… Read full post »

I get it now I guess.  I am resigned to accept the unbelievable reality that is our political make-up.  For awhile I thought, if only people were made aware of the facts and educated and persuaded to see the light, most people would agree with the liberal, democratic way of things. … Read full post »

Green Day is right.  We have become a nation of idiots.  Let's face it, most of us are not nerds, most of us are dumbasses.  Nerds are seen in a bad light, and they're given a lot of grief, when they should be celebrated.  We should be grateful when a kid… Read full post »

I don't think older generations quite appreciate just how much parenting has changed.  First of all, there is the huge gap in the way people go about having children in the first place.  In the past, people didn't plan for children, it just happened.  They had it so easy, there was… Read full post »

My 2 year old was a princess for Halloween, of course.  She is a princess every day because wearing a dress or a skirt makes you a princess, so for Halloween she was a BIG princess, with wings and a wand and lipstick.  We never pushed or encouraged the idea, she… Read full post »

We recently threw a BBQ for all the people we know here and actually like.  I invited my mommy group (MG) friends, and my husband invited some grad school colleagues and co-workers from his part time catering job.  Good food, good people, good weather, little children running around, good c… Read full post »

Another big glaring difference between us and everyone else?  We are planners, we make plans and stick to them, we have schedules and appointments and check lists.  We are type A personalities with agendas and goals.  We became increasingly disappointed with what we now call the Fort C… Read full post »

Well, we found our pretty little house with the big green backyard and, thanks to my husband's parents, a very low mortgage.  We started eagerly exploring the town and meeting our neighbors in what we would later realize must have seemed a very Tigger-like fast paced city approach.  We star… Read full post »

I once read, long before getting pregnant and married and moving into middle America, back when I was a happy and hedonistic 20 something in New York City, that families who move away to suburbia often miss the city and end up moving back; that despite the fresh air and open… Read full post »

It annoys me when people say about 9/11, "Never forget."  Seriously?  How could anyone ever forget?  Really, I mean who on this planet is ever going to wake up one day and be going along and have someone reference 9/11 and be like, "what's that?  I totally forgot...gee uh, isn't t… Read full post »

It's so easy to get angry at all the stupid, horrible people out there mucking it up for the rest of us.  I grew up believing, naively, that everyone knows right from wrong and at least wants to appear to be good.  Then I learned, the hard way, that people actually… Read full post »