Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

a Ministry of Silly Hats? If not, I know the perfect person to establish one:     Princess Beatrice (who is she, anyway?) appears to be a serial silly hat wearer: So, I vote for her to establish, and perhaps endow, the Ministry of Silly Hats. Whoever she is (perhaps Fergie’s daughter? She has that [...]

I don’t have a lot to say about one topic tonight, but I do have a few things rattling around in my head that I might as well let out. Expect no linearity at all in this post. I knocked the lens out of my glasses the other day and it fell on the floor [...]

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.” John Waters via A Peek Into My Chaos

especially this one (so far). I read Andrew Sullivan from time to time - he occasionally posts interesting things and I like the views from the windows. But not once – ever - do I forget that he thinks that whether I and those of my skin tone are a fully developed human beings, with fully developed brains and cognitive abilities is [...]

I’ll tell ya, I truly hate some of the language used by White “progressives” in relation to Obama. I was going to write about something else this morning but then I made the mistake of reading the comments on a post by Tasha Fierce, on feministe. I am not actually going to link to the [...]

Thank the deities it is not just me. I hated that book. Not even half the stuff that is in this article occurred to me, but I wrote last year about picking up Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” from the library and the trouble I was having getting through it. I am a very fast reader [...]

“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to that sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is [...]

I love this: BBC – Anglesey writer, 82, lands three-book deal An 82-year-old teacher and theatre director has been given a three-book deal after writing her first novel. The Great Lie, the start of Myrrha Stanford-Smith’s trilogy, is a fictional look at William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe’s rivalry. The Brighton-born grandmother from Anglesey said she [...]

Part of repairing and recapturing the past is first insisting that it exists. So much of what we know, or think we know, is maybe not wrong so much as it is part of that oft told single story. Perhaps, through photos and memories, another part of the story can be told.   Disney, in [...]

If I thought about her at all – which I didn’t really, because until recently I had no idea who she was – it was to notice that, like a number of earlier performers, she uses odd, imaginative costumes and hair styles to stand out. Apparently there is more to her than that, though, because [...]