May 21 2013
Note: The Women in Secularism 2 was kind of a weird rollercoaster. The highs — and it was overwhelmingly highs — were very high indeed; the lows were seriously low, and of a variety that seeped poison into the highs and made them harder to appreciate. Many other people have been writing about some of …
May 17 2013
(This is part of a series on mindfulness based stress reduction: a secular, evidence-based meditation practice that I’ve recently started.) Note to self: This works. It has been a bad, bad couple of days. I don’t want to get into a lot of details… but it hasn’t been good. My depression, which has largely been …
Apr 30 2013
This post continues my leg of the Blogathon for SSA Week… now! From now until 9pm PDT, I will write one new blog post every hour. Plus, for every $100 raised during that time, I will post one new picture of our cats! And all donations will be matched by SSA Supporters Jeff Hawkins and …
Apr 30 2013
This post continues my leg of the Blogathon for SSA Week… now! From now until 9pm PDT, I will write one new blog post every hour. Plus, for every $100 raised during that time, I will post one new picture of our cats! And all donations will be matched by SSA Supporters Jeff Hawkins and …
Apr 24 2013
So I’ve started a secular meditation practice. As you probably guessed from the title of this piece. I’ve been interested in meditation for a long time. It offers, or seems to offer, some things I’m in great need of: peace, calm, the ability to be present in the here and now, the ability to sit …
Apr 23 2013
“How can life have meaning without God?” Pretty much every atheist or humanist I know has gotten this question. It’s often asked in a smug, passive-aggressive way by religious believers who seem to think it’s a real zinger, a deal-breaker of a question that we’ve somehow never contemplated. But it’s sometimes asked in all sincerity, …
Apr 17 2013
In the conversation here in this blog about the “Mystery Date” game and how it served to enforce rigid gender roles and female passivity, one commenter, cubist, has proposed that we create a feminist version of the game. I’m intrigued by the idea of re-writing the game. I have now wasted waaaaay too much time …
Apr 17 2013
Mystery Date Are you ready for your Mystery Date Don’t be late… An old friend of mine from grade school just shot me a Facebook message, with a “Do you remember when we used to play this?” link to an old TV ad for the board game “Mystery Date.” Boy, howdy, do I remember. It’s …
Apr 08 2013
For my friends on the circuit. Yes, I’m aware of the irony. I’m a person who loves quirkiness, originality. Clothes made by local designers that you can’t get at the mall. Food you can only get in that one restaurant in that one city. People who say things I never in a million years would …
Mar 22 2013
UPDATE: The commenter in question has written a very gracious apology. This is written in response to a comment on my blog, commenting on the post Some Incomplete Thoughts on Mental Illness and Shame: I’ve not had a mental illness to my knowledge and no depression so I’m willing to concede I know nothing and …
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