Mixed Moss

Remember a while back when I got all righteously indignant about blood diamonds? Yeah, well, I still am. Here are a couple of articles:
http://www.rotten.com/library/crime/blood-diamonds/
http://www.un.org/peace/africa/Diamond.html
http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/106802851261.htm
Now listen, I like diamonds as much as the next girl. But not at the cost of other peoples’ pain and misery.
And for those of you who aren’t innately world-minded and have […]

Check out my new favorite comic strip: http://angrylittlegirls.com/
There is a fabulous cast of characters, including:
Kim, the Angry little Asian girl (she likes to yell and flick people off)
Deborah, the Disenchanted Princess (she’s perfect, but still unhappy– life is meaningless)
Maria, the Crazy little Latina (yeah really crazy)
Wanda, the Fresh little Soul Sistah (the only well-adjusted person […]

Today for the first time I got to wear a normal athletic shoe for part of the day. I;ve gone back to the surgical boot for now because my foot swells gradually throughout the day, but I wore it for a while! I’m so excited.
But the thing is, my surgeon says that the only shoes […]

Lately I’ve been having fun with nature. There’s been snow on the ground for the past few weeks, which is gorgous (although difficult to get around in because my surgical boot that I still have to wear has about zero traction). The other day I saw a mourning dove with a pearly-pink head and neck, […]

Sneezing. It’s an involuntary action, you just do it, a reaction, really, and sometimes you do it in response to the wrong thing, too you know, and you can fight it but then you just force it back inside you and the experience is sometimes more violent than if you had jsut sneezed in the […]