Guns, drugs, thefts keep school policy busy All of these incidents happened in Gwinnett County, where we used to live. I hear a lot of stories that don’t make it into the news because I have several relatives who work…
Relationship Truths
More from Renatta Paries’ What It Takes
Drama vs. Passion
theferrett‘s wife zoethe posted this piece, which has been passed through a whole mess of LJ users. I tracked down the author, Rinatta Paries, and her site What It Takes, although I didn’t find this exact article there. It’s very…
So Many Things!
Happy Birthday kittybecca! If anyone sees a frantic message posted from my LJ name or sent using any of my chat IDs claiming that someone is being held hostage and starved, it’s just Shelley. We put her on Iams Active…
Word for the Day: Heteroflexible
Ally McBeal, Heteroflexibility, and Lesbian Visibility on TV This curiosity by heterosexually-identified women isn’t new, but the increase in public awareness and public acceptance of it is a recent development. It is best described by the term “heteroflexible,” which Salon.com…
Biblical Marriage
As certain politicians work diligently to prevent marriage between two people of the same sex, others of us have been busy drafting a Constitutional Amendment codifying all marriages entirely on biblical principles. After all, God wouldn’t want us to “pick…
Georgia Curriculum Review
A teacher’s review of Georgia’s new high school history curriculum: Dumbing down our past doesn’t serve our future The Civil War is just one of the topics that have been removed from the US history course, which focuses on 1876…
Katie & Filters & Home Stuff & Books
shadowkatt celebrated the Chinese New Year with the folks from the martial arts studio tonight at an Italian restaurant. There was one other female at the party, but otherwise lots of testosterone. They all seem like polite guys, happily. We’re…
Trash Service
I’m sitting here looking at a list of 29 garbage haulers who supposedly do business in the area where the Castle is. There’s no indication at all as to pricing, how often they’ll pick up, whether or not they do…
Shared Calendars & Individual Reminders
Edit: This was SUPPOSED to be posted to Geeks_At_Home. There are three people (soon to be four) in our household. We all have PDAs. We all have very busy schedules. The only way we’ve found to keep up with our…