Hecate

Rosella Hightower, a wonderful ballerina, has left us. We are poorer for her absence.

Someone misguided once described the human body as an ugly bag of mostly water . But, it isn't, you know. It's really an amazing a...

Les Chartreux .

I have just been reduced to happy, emotional, relieved tears over and over again this week. That's a funny expression, isn't it: ...

Cuz I like dancing, dancers, and people who enjoy dancing. That's all.

Four years ago, when Bush "won" his second term, there was no fucking end of discussion, both from the so-called liberal media and...

On November 3, 2004, a pathetic excuse of a man, Adam Yoshida, wrote a little screed . I saved it because I knew, at the time, that the day...

Judgement, a major arcana card. This is an important election. This card, from the Robin Wood deck, shows a phoenix and depicts resurrecti...

Last night in Manassas, Obama told a great story about an old woman in a ceremonial hat doing a chant that worked magic I love stories and...

Our Mothers went through a lot so that you could vote. Don't get out of line. Get in line early and don't leave without voting.

/hat tip: David Derbes in comments at Eschaton .

Hey Nonny Nonny! Go take a bath. With friends. Wash off the last 8 years.

Ladies! Listen up! Detecting breast cancer early is the key to surviving it! Breast Self Exams (BSEs) can help you to detect breast cancer i...

Pretty Much: (Seven Posts in Seven Days - Day 1) I am surprised that some of you are up in arms about my calling Sarah Palin a bitch, or Joh...

De Profundis It is a stubble field, where a black rain is falling. It is a brown tree, that stands alone. It is a hissing wind, that encircl...

Whot U Mean, "'We' Go 2 Vet"? U Can Haz Squirrel In Ur Pocket?

Tonight is -- perfect. Windy and cold and only the tiniest cold sliver of a moon-white moon in the indigo-chakra-dark Autumn sky. You can ...

The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice -- though th...