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Things That Make My Life Easier, A Reintroduction 23 Aug 2010 | 09:00 pm
A long time ago, I decided to start up a series. I lacked a catchy title, so I went with the mere truth: Things That Make My Life Easier. What I meant by that is, of course, things that make my life ...
Transit cuts hurt car drivers too 19 Aug 2010 | 11:47 pm
The Post-Gazette has a story today detailing the costs of transit cuts in the city of Pittsburgh. The city’s Port Authority needs $47 million to avoid cuts of 35 percent. According to the P-G, the Po...
untitled 1 Aug 2010 | 06:35 am
july 31, 2010 engagement. I’m having a really hard time with it lately. I’ve been on a medication for months now that is causing mood swings, suicidality (more serious than has ever happened to me ...
Three years into three rivers fog 18 Jul 2010 | 06:05 am
Three and a half years in to my life in Pittsburgh. Three years and change in to my marriage. Some of the biggest changes in my life all seemed to happen in a cluster. And I’m grateful for each of th...
I can’t count on anybody to understand. (Blogging Against Disablism Day 2010) 2 May 2010 | 11:05 am
(Cross-posted to FWD/Forward. See more BADD 2010 at Goldfish’s blog.) I’m pretty open about my health issues. To be honest, I don’t know any other way to be. I know how to strategically hide my disab...
Children are objects of their parents’ possession, and society has an interest in enforcing this. 11 Apr 2010 | 05:38 am
We need look no further than the story of this sixteen-year-old young man, who is facing a flurry of attention after filing a lawsuit against his mother for hacking his Facebook account. He also reque...
A Saturday sketch 21 Feb 2010 | 02:55 pm
I noticed something was wrong in the earliest hours of the morning, when my husband had disappeared from bed but I did not hear anything going on in the bathroom and could not see him anywhere. Aroun...
Gender, health, and societal obligation 5 Feb 2010 | 01:00 pm
Kate Harding, writing at Broadsheet: “If you ask us,” say Glamour editor Cindi Leive and Arianna Huffington, “the next feminist issue is sleep.” Personally, I never would have thought to ask those tw...
All I want for my birthday is… 2 Feb 2010 | 01:40 am
Monday, January 25, the Pittsburgh Penguins met the New York Rangers at Madison Square Gardens. My boyfriend Marc-Andre Fleury, who sat out several games with a broken finger, was back in net for the ...
Interlude: Cat toy edition 3 Jan 2010 | 05:18 am
I am quite fond of the pharmaceuticals I keep organized in my nightstand drawer. But I have to be careful not to drop them, so that the cats don’t find them and try to eat them. But now, there’s a pi...