Calling Pittsburgh-area Kossacks: please help a lady in distress
Pittsburgh Kossacks, can you give this lady a hand? Please read her diary here. If you're in a position to help, please leave a comment in her diary and/or send her kosmail. Thanks in advance!
View ArticleMore than German in German class
This past Friday evening marked the end of my third week in an Integrationskurs here in Berlin — a state-subsidized German-language course that is intended to help immigrants become more fully a part...
View ArticleMBTA, Harvard, MIT, etc. closed — stay home!
All MBTA services (buses, trains) are suspended. Harvard, MIT, Boston U. and numerous other schools and businesses are closed in Boston and Cambridge while the second suspect, armed and considered...
View ArticleI think of myself as a writer, and yet…
I think of myself as a writer, and yet my diaries here are few and far between. My blog entries are even scarcer these days. Even today, visiting my principal blog sites, I ended up just clearing out...
View ArticleIt's Pioneer Day today in Mormondom
When I was growing up in Southern California, the child of active converts to Mormonism, I dressed up as a pioneer (usually a girl pioneer, much to my tomboy dismay) every July 24th and went with my...
View Article“Matt’s” death, 7 years ago today
Five years ago I published a lengthy diary on the first anniversary of the death of my then-15-year-old nephew. In his honor and memory, I am publishing the same diary, with only a few edits, below the...
View ArticlePraying for “moisture”
California has been in the grip of a huge drought for quite some time now, and today being the first Sunday of the month, a.k.a. "Fast Sunday," Mormons are being asked to fast and pray that the drought...
View ArticleI will remember this my whole life long
[This is my annual diary in remembrance of this day in 1963.]I was in second grade at Limerick Avenue Elementary School in Canoga Park, California (a suburb of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley)....
View ArticleI'm done with the Mormon church
Following the Mormon Church's announcement of its new policy, that the children of gay parents cannot be blessed nor baptized (until they are 18 and renounce their parents' "wicked ways"), and that...
View ArticleThe Pootie Queen has gone over the Rainbow Bridge
I am very sorry to let you all know that Tricia Wyse, a.k.a. the Pootie Queen, died this morning, apparently from a heart attack (others will doubtless provide more details). I know I am far from the...
View ArticleTen years ago today: In memory of “Matt”
Ten years ago I published a lengthy diary on the first anniversary of the death of my then-15-year-old nephew. In his honor and memory, I am publishing the same diary, with only a few edits,...
View ArticleReporting in after… a very long time
UPDATE: I removed the paragraph mentioning “silver linings,” because it appears that at least the part about dolphins being seen in Venetian canals is not true, per National Geographic. (Air quality in...
View ArticlePraying for “moisture”
California has been in the grip of a huge drought for quite some time now, and today being the first Sunday of the month, a.k.a. "Fast Sunday," Mormons are being asked to fast and pray that the drought...
View ArticleI will remember this my whole life long
[This is my annual diary in remembrance of this day in 1963.]I was in second grade at Limerick Avenue Elementary School in Canoga Park, California (a suburb of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley)....
View ArticleI'm done with the Mormon church
Following the Mormon Church's announcement of its new policy, that the children of gay parents cannot be blessed nor baptized (until they are 18 and renounce their parents' "wicked ways"), and that...
View ArticleThe Pootie Queen has gone over the Rainbow Bridge
I am very sorry to let you all know that Tricia Wyse, a.k.a. the Pootie Queen, died this morning, apparently from a heart attack (others will doubtless provide more details). I know I am far from the...
View ArticleTen years ago today: In memory of “Matt”
Ten years ago I published a lengthy diary on the first anniversary of the death of my then-15-year-old nephew. In his honor and memory, I am publishing the same diary, with only a few edits,...
View ArticleReporting in after… a very long time
UPDATE: I removed the paragraph mentioning “silver linings,” because it appears that at least the part about dolphins being seen in Venetian canals is not true, per National Geographic. (Air quality in...
View ArticleMaybe I'm not cut out to be a god
NB: Be prepared to wade through a fair bit of Mormon stuff; hopefully this will be worth your time. At the very least, you might end up with some questions to ask of any missionaries who might cross...
View ArticleA brief reflection on June 2022's French legislative election
I write this as some Americans have already headed off to their polling places to vote, and quite honestly, the one thing I know I’m going to do this evening at bedtime is take a sleeping pill. I don’t...
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