creepy cultural cleavage

The American Promise.

I think my favorite line came when Obama was commenting on his grandmother: "She poured everything she had into me." We all need to do just that.

the glass ceiling with the 18 million cracks in it

The fact that she ran circles around the men tonight reminded me why the glass ceiling with the 18 million cracks in it really is poised to shatter. I can’t recall a woman rocking a convention like that, ever.

my recently retired desktop post-it

"One day during the war in Bosnia a report on the radio ended with an arresting image. A resident of a village that had come under attack the night before answered a journalists question. "This morning when I looked out the window at my garden, I knew the fighting was now close. There were bullet casings on the lettuce leaves."

my anti-doppelganger

apparently someone has been getting a head start on my dream life: Technology Enhanced Learning

and not only does she have a career that is so similar to my own passions and pursuits, but we share the same name!

so on top of that, I am ALSO an artist, an author of a ton of books, a Real Estate CFO, an election campaign donor to John Kerry & Barack Obama, an animal specialist, a graduate of a Milwaukee high school, working at a communications firm in London, a cinematographer, a countess from Swinton, a member of the Society of American Silversmiths, and a child caretaker.

"What gets you up in the morning?" and "What pisses you off?"

best passive-aggressive note title ever

the missing exhibit from the carousel of progress

I went shopping today. Much monetary damage ensued. And then I got ambushed on my way home by a Church of Mother God Christian Evangelizing on Walnut St.

Its amazing what a little struggling does for the human spirit... well, I have to resign myself to relative struggling, as far as the upper-middle-class-privileged-white-female's human spirit goes.

I started flossing.