Beanstyle Evolution

I’m watching McCain’s speech and am impressed that he’s maintaining such a calm and courteous demeanor – knowing how much he dislikes Bush and his policies. [Cheney the Vulture stands up to take a nod] What absolutely disgusts me is that 15 minutes into the speech and all he’s talked about is Sept 11th and [...]

Okay – I may have told a teensy little lie when I said I was (or would) making a deliberate attempt to stay away from the RNC coverage. It wasn’t my fault, though, it was Mother Jones! I was just perusing the email update and ran across this short article about the people [...]

Most of the posts on this blog haven’t been all that personal. Most of the time, the really personal stuff is too painful to put on a public blog so it goes elsewhere. However, this post is going to be more personal. It’s kind of nice to have something personal to blog [...]

For the record, I’m deliberately staying away from the RNC. I took about two minutes yesterday to look at the scheduled speakers and see if there are going to be bloggers. The speaker lineup was surprisingly thin and yes, there are going to be bloggers. I *may* watch Guiliani and McCain tonight [...]

I went to my very first full mooon drumming circle last night and it was pretty great. kai, mklo, kcam, and wpark were all there, along with the woman hostessing and several other nice people. The most intense part for me was feeling, for the first time, really connected to my Native American [...]

I’ve been in the land of Buffymania for the last few days, watching seasons 6 and 7 back to back. My god, I actually had to take a Buffy break yesterday! As part of my Buffy break, I was trolling through the archives of this little ole’ blog and realized that some of the stuff [...]

This is one of those ideas that is *really* hard for a lot of people to accept. When an oppressed group mocks the oppressor, even though it may not be appropriate or polite, it NEVER carries the same amount of weight as when the oppressor mocks the oppressed.
It’s hard for me to understand why it [...]

So I’ve got this great picture of me and croed last december at a horse show in Charlotte and I’m just disgusted with myself. In all honesty, I’ve only put on a few pounds but I feel like I’ve gained a ton! Of course, I also have a fairly recent picture (taken by [...]

I have to admit – I love online dating! It’s fun, cheap, and you have a *much* bigger selection to choose from. However, I have to also say that I find some of the stuff people say highly amusing and sometimes just plain mystifying. I mean really – do you think someone’s going to actually [...]

I just spend some time volunteering at Square Peg – a local, organic farm. I spent most of my time today weeding but it was pretty cool. I also got to have some great food, good company and took away a bag of farm fresh produce goodies! The bag of goodies was [...]