- post-concussion syndrome recovery update
- “This Is America” (Childish Gambino/Donald Glover)
- dating for friends?
- “Looking at Black people like you would any other people,” a follow-up post
- post-concussion syndrome setback and lessons learned
- is it time for me to quit Facebook?
- this white woman’s thoughts about Black Panther
- BIPOC and what it must be like for Black Americans and indigenous people
- working for change is dangerous for people of color, they should be paid
- post-concussion syndrome recovery update
- post script to yesterday’s post about misogyny on twitter
- hostile, misogynistic everyday life
- going too fast
- addendum to my last post (post-concussion syndrome continues)
- still blog-floundering, what’s up with me lately
- Senator Collins, please vote no on the tax bill
- potayto potahto
- Walking Vigil and Civil Disobedience Action for Climate Hope (spread the word!)
- “4-page guide to surviving an authoritarian regime, in graphic form” #LearnFromEurope
- one of my many #MeToo experiences (the need for consent)
- being away from Facebook
- no elf on the shelf for us
- wordless wednesday
- it’s easy to tell your representatives in Congress what’s important to you, the voter
- miscellaneous mundanities
- the spectrum of sexual misconduct/harassment/assault/shitty behavior
- be gentle with each other
- sexual assault or abuse if children isn’t always pedophilia, and that matters
- why are Russians the “bad guys?”
- Quakers and white supremacy
- it’s winter in the mountains
- make Trump a lame duck h/t @samswey
- mention of my Dad in Hillary Clinton’s latest book :-)
- relative kale
- mushroom identification?
- trivial
- one of the reasons I go there
- my second-to-last column for the Bangor Daily News
- putting beds to bed
- what the heck, why not? let’s pretend it’s 1998!
- groceries (I got some)
- to my white friends
- wordless wednesday
- more exceptions (what poverty isn’t like)
- no groceries challenge (update)
- no groceries challenge, rebooting
- my racism story, part 2 (more background)
- my racism story, part 1 (or, “will you be my black friend?”)
- “It’s All About Me! (the column).”
- listen to the truth tellers
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- to my friend who hates it when people accuse him of microaggressions
- wordless wednesday
- just another little “ah ha!” moment (privilege)
- books related to racism that have helped me
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- quantum change.
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- no groceries challenge, an intellectual exercise
- wordless wednesday
- offline/online, quitting Facebook?
- wordless wednesday
- traveling notes, AZ-NM
- no groceries challenge (no crisis)
- “The hoarding of wealth is violence.”
- Jill Stein is not Jesse Ventura (why I might vote Green in the presidential election)
- wordless wednesday
- held in the Light
- wordless wednesday
- asparagus as metaphor
- when I wanted to be Martha Stewart
- walking the walk, social justice through parenting
- parenting while under reality
- beginning again, another “no groceries challenge”
- vulva. vulva. VULVA (not vagina!)!
- groceries (no groceries) lessons as I’m learning them
- no groceries challenge (October-November) update
- no groceries challenge redux (and redux and redux and redux…)
- the elitism of “choosing abundance”
- the convenience of privilege (no groceries challenge)
- we choose our battles
- no groceries challenge, f’real this time
- #blacklivesmatter #staywoke #sayhername and listen
- wordless wednesday
- “real life” vs. online life (thank you for the great birthday)
- learning through life experience (gardening)
- when every bit matters
- snippet
- idea snippets
- no groceries challenge #x
- family values (McDonald’s)
- 19 years ago today I was drunk and high
- What is Whiteness? (a linked NYTimes article)
- another suggestion for white people who want to be not racist
- jonesin’ for groceries, and some upsides
- no groceries challenge update
- cheating (fake poverty)
- no groceries challenge #4
- check yourself, my white friends
- why kale?
- with all this time
- wordless wednesday
- what I learned in just over two days
- lost in the possibilities, or, when my daughters went to school
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- more DHHS time-consuming confusion.
- daily luxuries. (no groceries challenge #3 ends.)
- privilege = having options.
- no groceries challenge 3.1 (update)
- wordless wednesday
- no groceries challenge 3.0
- Valentine’s Day traditions
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- what I rarely admit about how I parent
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- SNAP reduction crisis
- why are you poor? get a job! (and other BDN reader questions.)
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- Why I might not say anything (racism)
- want vs. need (no groceries challenge 2.4)
- no groceries challenge 2.3
- wordless wednesday
- no groceries challenge 2.2
- wordless wednesday
- no groceries challenge 2.1
- no groceries challenge revisited (2.0)
- wordless wednesday
- speaking the unspeakable
- more on racism (can’t unring the bell)
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- the last time I drank alcohol
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- “no groceries” update 5: video note about wanting not needing
- “no groceries” update 4: just a few thoughts for people who aren’t poor
- “no groceries” update 3: not cheating
- “no groceries” update 2: organizing
- “no groceries” update 1: planning ahead
- wordless wednesday
- our “no groceries” challenge
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- what is CISPA? (an infographic explanation)
- financial independence just out of reach
- wordless wednesday
- Trees. (quoting Hermann Hesse)
- wordless wednesday
- I’m going to lose my food stamps (SNAP/EBT) and health insurance (MaineCare).
- a quick comment about comments
- wordless wednesday
- gratitude update
- politics as art (liberals are terrible painters)
- throwback thursday
- wordless wednesday
- advantages.
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- when there is time…
- asking for help, offering help (grantwinners.net)
- The costs of eating well
- wordless wednesday
- My 9 year old is a lot smarter than me
- be still.
- too personal for the Internet
- wordless wednesday
- that time we almost died
- my medical freedom, stolen by the health insurance industry
- it’s all about me/it’s all about we
- wordless wednesday
- what you think it’s worth/what you can afford
- wordless wednesday
- caring requires strength (why Romney will win)
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- unexpected.
- Not all rapes are rape.
- expensive vs. costly.
- Hey, progressives: less Robin Hood, more hard work.
- noticing.
- the shame of being newly poor (or, why I canceled our plans today)
- churches and vegetable gardens
- wordless wednesday
- what it was like, what happened, and what it’s like now
- what it was like, what happened, and what it’s like now v.1
- wordless wednesday
- this good place
- wordless wednesday
- kickstarter (funded!) project update
- wordless wednesday
- too valuable for caution
- wordless wednesday
- rejection as motivation
- wordless wednesday
- white paint
- wordless wednesday
- $75/hour and on food stamps?
- the ocean floor
- the shame and gratitude of food stamps
- wordless wednesday
- making cherry trees
- irregularities
- wordless wednesday
- patience and precision (pig kill, part 2)
- setting up at Starbucks
- wordless wednesday
- “Breathing. (twitter.)”
- white trash and rednecks (follow-up)
- wordless wednesday
- the dangerous seduction of recycling
- happy
- wordless wednesday
- white trash and rednecks
- wordless wednesday
- the beholder
- pink gingham memories
- not *that* kind of welfare recipient
- no words
- how’re things?
- I don’t support legalizing gay marriage
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- serenebabe.net update
- opening reception (how it went)
- irresponsibility, part 2 (video)
- irresponsibility
- because liberals/moderates are stagnating idiots, Gingrich will be President
- shock (pig kill, part 1)
- staying safe
- new york city
- Christian quickie
- creation of “germination”
- grand gestures and finding balance
- accessories and effort
- in defense of audio books
- hardware stores
- single parenting
- challenging memory and reality
- gun control and/or firearms education
- wordless wednesday
- contributing to the common wealth
- [video] changing education paradigms
- governmental protection, water, and taxes: freedom
- wordless wednesday
- our moon
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- appearances
- Islamophobia and wimpy progressives
- if you focus on the good…
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- she’s growing up
- my friend Paula
- Audio Books and Our Oligarchy
- framing, *not* spin
- how to tell if you are part of the “liberal elite”
- freedom isn’t free
- wordless wednesday
- which baby’s life would you save?
- wordless wednesday
- supporting the Republican platform means you support incest perpetrators
- wordless wednesday
- supporting the Republican platform means you support rapists
- wordless wednesday
- Our decision to say goodbye
- troll? no. interested? yes.
- wordless wednesday
- inside the dark
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- wordless wednesday
- wrestling with gender
- wordless wednesday
- I woke up crying
- it’s not you, it’s me
- What, me, an anarchist?
- writing freedom
- circuitous
- for Josh
- extend the family
- Althea’s birth (part 1)
- silver strands
- Jesus existed
- crash memories
- tmi
- Jesus never existed
- deer in headlights: being “from away”
- a woman’s right to kill her baby
- those crazy haters…
- gut knots in the clearing
- waking up
- quit touching my child
- christian with a lowercase c
- Ophelia’s ride
- “she’s Black, she’s Black, she’s BLAAAAACK!”
- writing
- NIP (nursing in public)
- mommy, stay
- all whites are racist
- but Senator, you just don’t get it
