Category: Navel Gazing

  • Eventually I’ll stop writing about it.

    But I need to get over it first. I’m still reading the news too much. This site made me feel a bit better, because I can at least be angry. http://www.fuckthesouth.com/ I also finally found what I’ve been looking for and can maybe read a little less news. What is it? A cartogram of the…

  • Wronged.

    It should be illegal for George W. Bush to get reelected when I have pms. Mena Trott has a nice solution: http://mena.typepad.com/dollarshort/2004/11/canada_20.html

  • the namesake

    by jhumpa lahiri Maybe the immigrant experience is universal, maybe it doesn’t depend on what country you have left or are working to integrate into. This book was far better than Interpreter of Maladies because of the continuity, the development of the characters, and the obvious sincerity with which it was written.

  • Oscar Wilde Quote

    Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. — Oscar Wilde

  • Feminist

    To deny freedom, on the grounds that some may abuse it, disregards the possibility that the denial of freedom also fails to recognize our call to experience the fullness of human life. ~Patricia Mullins, Becoming Married, Towards a theology of marriage from a woman’s perspective I think I’m becoming a feminist.