Time for another 15 minutes (minimum) of writing, so I start getting back into the habit of doing so… The 2015 Parliament of the World’s…
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I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to write down some of the issues I’m butting my head up against, as I write my…
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Some years ago I had a friend with whom I lunched on a weekly basis. At that time he was on a job team that…
Continue ReadingReading & voting: Williams’ “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family & Place”
As I write this I’ve just spent the past two or three hours sitting in the tire shop and waiting for a tire change. It…
Continue ReadingThoughts on V. Shiva’s “Staying Alive”
I’m reading Vandana Shiva’s Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, & Development for an on-line class on Ecofeminism which I’m TAing. The following are two comments made…
Continue Reading“Toward A Queer Ecofeminism” by Greta Gaard
The following is a quick review of an article read for the Ecofeminism class in which I am a TA — yay! I’d like to…
Continue ReadingThe unexamined dissertation: not worth writing?
As some who read my blog may know already, I’m currently struggling with the process of writing my dissertation proposal. Despite writing being one of…
Continue ReadingSweet & sour emotions
Being a student on a very tight budget, I am particularly fond of restaurants with cards that give you a free meal after a certain…
Continue ReadingPoisoning history
There’s an odd and disturbing trend I’ve noticed recently in my preferred form of brain candy; e.g.: smart female protagonists within the genre of urban…
Continue ReadingWhy not pulp
Some years ago a friend asked me why I didn’t like pulp — why, in fact, I pretty much loathed it. It gets stuck in…
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