why blogs are so cool

Blogs and the internet are cool because you get to meet people who are interested in all kinds of things you might never have known about. One of the worthier things I’ve done over the last couple of weeks was to track down Interrogations at Noon, by Dana Gioia, from the library. I want my… Continue reading why blogs are so cool

still alive

sorry for the long silence. There’s this black dog that’s been hanging around the house; I’m not feeding him but he just won’t go away. I also just haven’t been inspired to write, in part because what meagre creative energy I had had has been going into a little side project of mind-boggling frivolity. Let’s… Continue reading still alive

Facere

1. PRAY FOR TERRI — her murder recommences today. 2. Pray for Pansy. 3. Finish decorating Hambet’s birthday cake. 4. Purchase balloons and streamers. My life is so trivial sometimes I just disgust myself.

Lileks to “Supermoms”: Chill.

Listened to the Prager show – a conversation on self-esteem, with a few calls from women who felt that they lacked self-esteem because they were stay-at-home moms instead of hard-charging superwomen. Well, they didn’t lack self-esteem so much as they inferred from some great floating amorphous thing called SOCIETY that should lack self-esteem, and they… Continue reading Lileks to “Supermoms”: Chill.

Hey! Guess What?

TSM turns 2 today! Wow, it has gone by so fast! Here is the first post. Two Sleepy Mommies blogging for two years. And there are still two of us and I know I am at least still sleepy. Um, yeah, nevermind.

In other news, WaPo discovers sun still rising in the east

After 32 Years, Roe Remains a Lightning Rod (washingtonpost.com) Imagine! After 32 years, there are still benighted souls out there who think abortion is… wrong! Doesn’t it remind you of those Japanese soldiers who fought in the jungles for 50 years after the peace treaty? It would be so… quaint, if it didn’t hit so… Continue reading In other news, WaPo discovers sun still rising in the east