- Erasing the lines that divide us
Warning: You may be more racist than you thin…
Race in America. Black and white. Christians and Muslims. Gays and straights. Rich and poor. We live in a society where we draw dividing lines based on all manner of…
- Book Review: Grounding Quinn by Stephanie Campbell
Book Review: Grounding Quinn by Stephanie Cam…
I mentioned in a blog post a couple weeks ago (about being a teenager in love) that I’ve been reading quite a bit of young adult fiction recently. I started…
- Can Repugs and Libtards actually listen to each other?
Can Repugs and Libtards actually listen to ea…
We all do it. Or at least I do occasionally. That funny thing about the “other” party shows up on Facebook and we pass it along.
Whatever you think of Congress,…
- Finding forgiveness for murder
Finding forgiveness for murder
“I’ll tell you the truth, Sheriff. We charged across Iraq and killed everything in our goddamn path, we left a trail of burning vehicles and broken bodies hundreds of miles…
- Reconnecting with old friends
Reconnecting with old friends
Do you use Facebook?
When I first got online, it was the very early nineties. I had a dial up unix shell account through Georgia State University, and later on an…
- The terrible two (teenagers, that is)
The terrible two (teenagers, that is)
So last night I had a long talk with the kids about important things. To be specific, about identifying what are the most frequent causes of fights in our house,…
- Legitimizing Indefinite Detention and Torture
Legitimizing Indefinite Detention and Torture
Andrew Rosenthal writes in the New York Times yesterday (Tortured Logic) about the unfortunate decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, granting immunity to John Woo, a former Bush…
- Avoiding and preventing burn-out
Avoiding and preventing burn-out
One thing I learned about myself a long time ago is that I am prone to overcommitting. I get intensely productive: deeply involved in work, in personal projects, in writing,…
- Driving the working poor into the dust
Driving the working poor into the dust
“Charles, can you print off my last four pay stubs? I need them for….”
Since I made my career change to the restaurant business, this has been a frequent, regular request…
- On being young and in love
On being young and in love
See, there was this girl….
That’s a really bad way to start a blog entry, especially when you’ve been happily married for nearly twenty years. But I’m thinking Veronica will understand…
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Ten Life Lessons I learned from my Awesome Kids
My last post, about racism and confronting it within ourselves, generated a lot of argument here on the blog as well as amongst my Facebook friends. This one is not so heavy. I want to write about some of the awesome and amazing things I’ve learned from my two little monsters. So here goes: Ten [...]
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Warning: You may be more racist than you think. Erasing the lines that divide us.
Race in America. Black and white. Christians and Muslims. Gays and straights. Rich and poor. We live in a society where we draw dividing lines based on all manner of arbitrary classifications. For most average middle class whites, we probably don’t even think about it at all, until suddenly something hits us in the face. [...]
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Book Review: Grounding Quinn by Stephanie Campbell
I mentioned in a blog post a couple weeks ago (about being a teenager in love) that I’ve been reading quite a bit of young adult fiction recently. I started initially because I was having a great deal of trouble getting into the heads of two of the characters in Insurgent. In the end, however, [...]
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Brief break
Taking a couple days off from blogging! I’ll be back. In the meantime, here’s one of my great and awesome kids, Amirah! She just got level 1 awards for solos in band tonight. Very proud (you can see she is too). I love my kids!
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Can Repugs and Libtards actually listen to each other?
We all do it. Or at least I do occasionally. That funny thing about the “other” party shows up on Facebook and we pass it along. Whatever you think of Congress, it’s a fact that at one time there was a significant middle in Congress that worked together to get stuff done. Increasingly though, our [...]
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Finding forgiveness for murder
“I’ll tell you the truth, Sheriff. We charged across Iraq and killed everything in our goddamn path, we left a trail of burning vehicles and broken bodies hundreds of miles long. If it moved, then it was the enemy, and we killed our fair share of civilians too. And you people sat back here and [...]
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Reconnecting with old friends
Do you use Facebook? When I first got online, it was the very early nineties. I had a dial up unix shell account through Georgia State University, and later on an account with Delphi (both of these were text based only, because, well, MS-DOS). When I wanted to write a friend, I got out a [...]
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The terrible two (teenagers, that is)
So last night I had a long talk with the kids about important things. To be specific, about identifying what are the most frequent causes of fights in our house, which are sometimes too stressful and upsetting for all of us. Basically it comes down to two things: homework, and chores. When I was a [...]
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Legitimizing Indefinite Detention and Torture
Andrew Rosenthal writes in the New York Times yesterday (Tortured Logic) about the unfortunate decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, granting immunity to John Woo, a former Bush administration official, for his actions which lead to the torture and abuse of Jose Padilla. Rosenthal correctly calls the judgment what it is: nonsense. Let [...]
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Avoiding and preventing burn-out
One thing I learned about myself a long time ago is that I am prone to overcommitting. I get intensely productive: deeply involved in work, in personal projects, in writing, various side businesses, and have bursts of intense energy where I’m doing lots and lots of stuff. I have a hard time saying no, and [...]
