Writing

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…

Lazy musings on power

Posted onSaturday 14 July 2012Saturday 14 July 2012

Friday the 13th has always been a lucky day for me, oddly enough. I got my first horse on Friday the 13th, and 13 was my number when I had my biggest win with him while showing. This Friday the 13th was no exception to that rule for me, since that was when I stumbled…

Possible causes of human existence

Posted onSunday 3 June 2012

Something just for fun today! A friend emailed me an article titled: Do we owe our human existence to the dog? (if that link is dead, try here). Here’s my emailed reply… While this information does not surprise me at all — we can see similar things happening in modern gatherer-hunter tribes today, for example…

MA & PhD programs | Random | Spirituality | Writing | Year of 50 new things

Workshops & more

Posted onWednesday 11 April 2012

Quick updating for my 50 New Things, with more coming soon: Saturday 3/24 attended a “Creative Transition” workshop in Berkeley, focusing on art and dance. Fascinating workshop & lovely location. Clearly I must slide more creativity into my life, to balance the delightful intellectual swamp of doctoral work. :) On Wednesday 3/27 had cranial-sacral massage…

More new things!

Posted onWednesday 18 January 2012Sunday 22 January 2012

It’s funny… in making up potential things to try for my 50 New Things list, I find myself adding on all the ideas and events I’ve wanted to try for a while, but never got around to doing. Some of them are bigger, like “climb Halfdome,” but some of them are small and simple. I…

Snapshots of San Francisco

Posted onThursday 18 August 2011Thursday 18 August 2011

I’m in San Francisco, the City by the Bay, for the Women’s Spirituality Intensive Week — which actually goes from Saturday to the following Sunday thereafter. It’s going to be an 11 night stay, including all the extra retreats, welcome dinners, and caucus demonstrations. The actual classwork is indeed extremely intense, and my brain is…

The Eternity Artifact

Posted onTuesday 17 May 2011

Here there be dragons… and plot spoilers! Proceed at your own risk. :) I’m struggling through getting final papers written, and my brain needed a break… so I did a quick review of L. E. Modesitt, Jr.’s The Eternity Artifact to clear my head. Whew! I needed that. Now, back to work! ;) ~ *…

MA & PhD programs | Random | Writing

Release… the Corgis of DOOM!

Posted onTuesday 26 April 2011

Had a lovely day today! Started in a panic due to realizing I had but two weeks left until end of semester, which means I have two 20 page papers to complete by then, as well as a revision of another, and a ten-minute presentation on the spirituality of creativity. Lost all the panic, though,…

Random | Writing

Again: things that make me laugh…

Posted onSaturday 16 April 2011

Walking through a parking lot today with one of my housemates, we spotted a car with a really big sticker on the back window: “Team Edward” with a big pink kiss-mark. After a moment to realize it’s associated with Twilight (which only the housemate, much to his subsequent disgust, had bothered to read), the housemate…

A Short History of Myth, part 4

Posted onThursday 14 April 2011Tuesday 12 April 2011

Source material that is simply bad To be fair to Armstrong, I would assume much of her previously mentioned double standards arose from her source material. I do not know why she chose to lean so heavily on such dated and inaccurate material for a book written in 2006. I do not refer here to…