Desperately trying to manifest a decent day, despite waking up cranky. # RT @rozsavage: just 4hrs sleep, but lost 3 miles of eastwards progress. sore and discouraged.#rozsavage #oceans #rowing # I love Joe Bageant. http://bit.ly/bo1w3 # RT @rozsavage: ocean incredibly dark since the moon set. still rowing… #rozsavage #oceans #rowing # Checked the lid on [...]
Archive for August, 2009
August 30 2009
I <3 Bobby McFerrin
This makes me want to babble on about the commonality of the human soul. But I think I’ll just let Bobby prove it.
August 29 2009
A sense of perspective — Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
I subscribed to the MSF RSS feed a while back. Why? I still don’t quite know. But I’m going to go out on a limb and recommend that you all do too. Right now. Click here. We are so so so isolated here. We read about financial collapse, we fret about TV shows, and we [...]
August 26 2009
We’re in Do Life Right!
An interview I did a few weeks ago got published today! Hurrah! 20 Unschooling Questions: Laureen from San Francisco Bay, CA Enjoy, and please leave comments there. Photo Credit: Zen.
August 25 2009
Vaccination without evidence
This just in from the Columbia Valley News: WHO ‘recommends’ global mandatory vaccination, Canada prepares Why are health ministers in places like British Columbia, Australia and Greece telling the public that ’swine flu’ is just ordinary H1N1 type A seasonal flu, while at the same time they are preparing to vaccinate their entire populations against [...]
August 25 2009
A Revolution We Can Dance To — Don’t Inject Me!
I swear, I need to go back and retag stuff. People with a message are beginning to figure out what the Schoolhouse Rock folks did all those years ago; if it’s got a catchy tune, we pay attention. And with that, this gem:
August 24 2009
Helping a Good Guy
This just in… Dr. Stuart Fischbein needs help. Read the whole thing here: …Dr. Stuart Fischbein, is being threatened with disciplinary action by his hospital “for violating hospital policies.” The hospital has already suspended the privileges of the two CNMs he works with, and now he faces a possible loss of his livelihood. His crime? [...]
August 23 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23
RT @jonaiello: This is disturbing: http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/2009/08/13/20090813computer0813.html # Trying to reframe myself, and live my life as Charlie would have wanted me to. # Researching to put a garden on the boat. If I can grow food here, anyone can! #gardening #liveaboard # @JenniferDorr LOL! That's precisely what happened to me yesterday!!!! Loooves me some Cat [...]
August 16 2009
Speaking Truth to Power
I’d like to brag up someone else’s kids today. Today is for Shaye’s Brayla. I am so proud of her. Not for the topic, necessarily, but for her sheer determination to say what she thinks is right, and to keep pressing home the point, even though she’s not getting the traction she expected in the [...]
August 16 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16
OMG, mark the freaking calendar, Nancy Wainer called *me* for help!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK! # Out in the NV desert, getting ready to have the best Perseid watching-party ever, with the kids. # Powered by Twitter Tools.
August 15 2009
Lead, lead everywhere
On our drive home from a recent visit to the folks in NV, I listened to an episode (edition?) of the California Report, regarding lead in toys. It’s bad. Read and/or listen to it here. Thank goodness, LEGO stuff is still totally safe. But I’m spending the rest of today with a garbage bag, going [...]
August 9 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-09
Actually managed to get up as early as I wanted this morning, and I feel really, really good about it. # Prepping goodies for our picnic lunch after seeing the Samurai display at the Asian Art Museum. Yay field trips! # Handy tip: shave your legs before you pick citrus, because there will be far [...]
August 5 2009
Kestrel’s New Haircut
Kestrel decided he wanted his hair cut. He was serious. For over two months, he badgered me about getting it done, and I stalled, not only because I wanted to make sure that was really what he wanted, but also because I loved, loved, loved his golden curls, and the way they made him look [...]
August 5 2009
Brilliant — Restaurant Wars!
This post, from Sheridan, is absolutely brilliant. Read it and laugh. And then, if you’re me, get vaguely ill, because it’s come to that. Restaurant Wars
August 2 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-02
@2Shaye Exams were totally cake… one makeup day to do, then I'm certified! in reply to 2Shaye # @2Shaye YAY!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy you finally are tweeting! in reply to 2Shaye # RT @rozsavage: just crossed 4degN. had to fight really hard for that one! 8 days… #rozsavage #oceans #rowing # Trying to keep the [...]
