I am 36 today, which is a number divisible by many other numbers. While the birthdays that fall on decades (ie turning 30, 40, etc) still stand out for me as important markers, birthdays that are very divisible serve to offer more subtle comparisons and reflections. Here are some of some of the ones [...]

A few friends of mine have mentioned astrology to me recently as a tool that they use for thinking about their life and making choices. They have asked me whether I “believe in it”. I suppose that I don’t really “believe”, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t understand why it is useful. [...]

I suddenly dropped off the face of myspace.com. It wasn’t really working for me, anyways. I suppose that I did start semi-serious blogging there, but I knew I wouldn’t last there. I had started a facebook account, which seemed much more fun and I also am on tribe.net, where I like the topic-based forums.
J- came [...]

My friend A- is always doing studies. If she is considering making any kind of change in her life, she researches it from every angle. She reads about it, she interviews her friends or acquaintances about it. I love seeing her go through this process and getting asked questions that make me think deeply [...]

I feel kind of pathetic for really wanting a “social networking” site to work for me. I feel old, like it is just not meant for someone of my generation.  I think it started when I began working alone.  I just have a big need for social connection that has been at least partially filled [...]

Last night at 10:30 while I was home alone (well, with my dogs), a complete stranger, that I don’t ever remember seeing before came to my door.  I was very tired after 15 miles of hiking and at least 5 hours of driving and I wasn’t very excited about going to the door, let alone [...]

I started this blog in order to assist me in writing more and to document our adoption process, as well as the other changes and fun things in my life. I realize that a mish-mash of topics may not be the easiest for everyone to follow, but I am really hoping that this will [...]

I am currently reading a book about cancer, Living Downstream by Sandra Steingraber. It includes both the author’s personal and emotional experience in dealing with it as well as scientific data and political commentary on the environmental causes of cancer in the US.  Jeff gave it to me a while ago, when I started volunteering [...]

Describe your project.
To make available a lifestyle option of the forest renunciate-one that hasn’t emerged in our culture, yet-but includes living outside of the economic system. I, too, am doing a zine and came up with three points that are important to looking at the forest renunciate. One is that they live outside of [...]

“Addiction can show us what is deeply suspect about nostalgia.  The drive to return to the past isn’t an innocent one.  It’s about stopping your passage to the future, it’s a symptom of fear of death, and the love of predictable experience.
And the love  of predictable experience, not the drug itself, is the major damage [...]