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Journaling while reading Griffin’s “Woman & Nature”

Posted onFriday 31 August 2012Sunday 27 January 2013

Later edit: I’ve been informed I wasn’t clear regarding this posting — sorry! I should have said what I am describing, in my comments below, is a collection of quotes of other sources put together by Griffin, the book’s author, to show the state of the world as far as women and nature are concerned…

Journaling for an independent study class

Posted onThursday 30 August 2012Thursday 30 August 2012

I’m crossing my fingers that Carol (my professor for my independent study in Ecofeminist Philosophy & Activism) will like the idea of my using the front yard as my “Place in Nature” to study during the semester. I think it’ll be a great way to make the yard a little nicer! It’s curious: when I…

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Escape from San Francisco

Posted onFriday 24 August 2012Saturday 25 August 2012

I’m writing this as I’m heading home on BART from the one class I had/chose to take in this year’s CIIS Intensive. It’s kind of a huge relief that I didn’t have to take all the Intensive classes this year, which requires spending a week and a half again in San Francisco. This was far…

What is female beauty?

Posted onFriday 10 August 2012Wednesday 6 February 2013

Lupin Lodge is a surprisingly nice place! I’m typing this au naturel by the pool, after cooling off from the heat of the day. The Lodge has over 100 acres and has been around for 77 years in 2012, so unsurprisingly it also has a strongly family-oriented atmosphere. There are also quite a few permanent…

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! :-D

Posted onThursday 9 August 2012

-EEEEEEEEEE!! I am SO EXCITED my books arrived today! I have now officially published scholarly work, yay! Wheee! This is so nifty! Along with several sister scholars from CIIS, I have two articles in the beautiful new little anthology Unto Herself: A Devotional Anthology for Independent Goddesses which was put out by Bibliotheca Alexandrina and…

Laissez les bons temps rouler! part 2

Posted onMonday 6 August 2012Monday 6 August 2012

As several folks know by now, I’m home again — yay! Home is wonderful; I think it’s truly where those you love are, rather than any particular geographical location. I’m writing as swiftly as I can — whilst also unpacking, relaxing, greeting old friends, and otherwise enjoying myself — since I want to get down…

Laissez les bons temps rouler! part 1

Posted onSaturday 28 July 2012Monday 30 July 2012

I think I’m in love. :) I have never been in a city like New Orleans before, or seen a neighborhood like the French Quarter. I ended up wandering the French Quarter for most of the day that I was in New Orleans, in fact. By the time I left the city, I’d gotten: sore…

Mountainous metaphysics

Posted onTuesday 10 July 2012Tuesday 10 July 2012

I am become a connoisseur of mountains. ;) Most California mountains are sneaky. They slide under the roads and hillsides, laughing foggy breaths in the dusk and dawn at how well their shaggy disguises of grasses and trees work. You drive along innocently enough, occasionally noticing the clusters of rocky spines along their backs, but…

Mud & philosophy

Posted onTuesday 10 July 2012Tuesday 10 July 2012

Writing this on the night of the 8th, from a wonderful little hole-in-the-wall pizza & brews place called Hot Mama’s! I’m muddy, exhausted, starving, and triumphant — I walked the lava tubes! So cool! So muddy! So in need of a washing machine at my next stop too. The township is called Duck Creek, and…

The ASWM Conference! part 4

Posted onWednesday 16 May 2012Wednesday 16 May 2012

Oh, again! Almost forgot: the bus driver on the way out to the hotel was an old Asian man, and on the way back was an old Italian man. Both of them were really nice folks, happy to help me get the right stop. It’s interesting: clearly my small rolling suitcase and my using actual…