January 07, 2008
Jury Duty
I spent half the day in the jury pool, though I got challenged out of the final duty. I do not know why; I don't think the lawyers could see the Krugman book in my bookbag.
Maybe it was carrying a bookbag that did it...
Anyway, I know everyone hates going in for jury duty, but I think it's a pretty lovely institution, and one of the foundations of this country. I enjoyed being in a room with a large number of random people from my community. Though I'm just as happy to not spend the next week working there.
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December 26, 2007
Looking ahead
This is going to be a very important year, and we have a tough fight ahead. I hope you're ready. I know I am.
In fact, I can't wait.
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September 29, 2007
On Vacation
Bizy. Backson.
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July 30, 2007
Please!
An Open Letter to CNN:
Could we stop talking about Hillary Clinton's
breastscleavage? PLEASE?? This isn't news.
Thank you,
jnfr
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March 22, 2007
Heads up
If you see a post on this blog by author Fabrice, that's my husband, and he wanted to start posting. With any luck, he won't get too profane.
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November 19, 2005
Catching up
I've been getting hit with trackback spam by the truckload, almost every day. So I've gone through every post on the site and turned off trackbacks permanently. In the process of dealing with the spam, I lost all my real trackbacks, but there's nothing to be done about that. I think I've got all posts set to reject pings, so maybe I'll have time to actually blog again now.
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October 14, 2005
Back now
Just getting home from vacation. All hail the Sun Temple!
Photo by Jnfr
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September 12, 2005
Another week
I'm tracking lots of political news still, but I'm not sure what I want to say about it all. So for now, you can see what stories I'm reading in my Furl archive to the right.
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September 07, 2005
Little time today
I've had an unusually busy day and haven't had time to update. Things keep on happening of course, and I have responses to much of it. I'll try to get to it later.
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June 09, 2005
Yes, yes...
...it's outrage fatigue. Too much evil, too little good. All I really wanna do is garden.
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April 09, 2005
Empty Main Page
This is sad. But I'm busy finding work - no time to blog now!
I'll be back when I can.
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March 11, 2005
Where I've lived
A blog thing going around.
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January 11, 2005
As I am...
losing my last contract at the end of the month, I'll be scarce for a while, finding new work. Sorry! I'm still watching, but energy to post is small.
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December 31, 2004
What's a little theft among friends?
Why, it's nothing at all. So I'm snagging this from Shaun at Upper Left. And like him, I hope you all have a very lovely evening.
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Happy New Year!
I don't know about you, but at our house we're happy to see this one go.
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December 09, 2004
Hmmm
I think I'm suffering outrage fatigue. Tons of stuff to post, both here and at World Turning, but I don't want to look at it. What a terrible time this is. I'll get back on it when I can.
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November 12, 2004
Today
I've been busy working and playing today, but have several items piled up to post this evening. In the meantime, let me join the rest of the blogosphere in noting that The Incredibles is a fun movie, well worth seeing if you're looking for some light entertainment.
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November 11, 2004
Comment spammers
This blog been up less than a week and I'm already getting comment spam. I'm about to install MT-Blacklist but in the meantime, I've made comments moderated. Sorry about the nuisance.
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November 06, 2004
Um...
In my ignorance of this new software, I seem to have lost my commenting and trackback functions. And the individual archive pages aren't working. I'll try to fix it, honest.
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Who I am
My family was very poor, and I grew up among people who hated and feared education, or anything outside of the narrow lives they led. We moved a lot, as my father wasn't very good at keeping jobs. In those neighborhoods, to study and try to get ahead meant you were ridiculed and reviled. Girls weren't expected to want much education anyway, because of course they would get married, usually right after high school, and sometimes earlier if they got pregnant.
Everyone went to church; my own parents were fundamentalists, though they weren't fanatical about it. They divorced when I was ten, and we moved into a housing project. My mother had never graduated from high school, and had trouble affording food. We spent most of my teenage years on welfare, and she fought my efforts to go away to college.
I went to school anyway, but I didn't do well. I was smart, but I never really learned how to study. I still don't have much discipline, but back then I had none really. I got away by taking a big sidestep into the counterculture, and then spent most of my early life as a political organizer. You can see my whole rambling history here in my resume.
I stopped organizing for a couple reasons. Burnout is the most superficial one. It became clear to me after years of public speaking, meetings, nonviolence trainings, and demonstrations, that in fact most people in this country didn't really want change. And it's pointless to try and change people who aren't ready for it.
It also became clear to me that most of the people I worked with, who came primarily from middle and upper class backgrounds, had a lot of resources to fall back on that I did not — resources both emotional and financial. So in the middle of my life I walked away from that too, to try and make some safe space for myself as I grew older.
Now I am 51, and I live in a Colorado suburb. My husband and I have cats rather than kids. I feed the birds and tend my garden. I never did finish college, though I went back for a few years in my 40s to study environmental science. I still don't have anything to do with most of my family, and my parents are dead now.
I spend a lot of time online, and much of that is spent reading, thinking, and talking politics. I write an environmental blog also, which is a pretty depressing thing to do these days. And the direction of this present administration infuriates me. I despair that so many people in this country are filled with hate. I am angry that we are letting poor and uneducated people fall so far behind everyone else, and no one seems to care any more. So I started this blog, for a place to write about my own experiences and my own thoughts, because my life has been unusual among people on the left, and because not talking about it is making me a little crazy.
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In the aftermath of the election
I needed a place to write about politics, and this is that place.
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