Everything that gets written on this blog is stream-of-consciousness. I sit down, I start typing, and at some point I stop typing. That’s it. Which is why there are typos, which is why it is sometimes way beyond dull, and which is why these little posts are, at their best, unpolished and kinda rambly and, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Relationships’
How Odd We Wonder What We Do – sex and self-esteem
Posted in Misc., Relationships, Uncategorized, tagged Identity, Personal, Relationships on March 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
March 8. Honour and Remembrance.
Posted in Misc., Relationships, tagged Personal, Relationships on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It is International Women’s Day today. Originally called International Working Women’s Day, it was an explicitly working class day of honour when first celebrated 100 years ago. And IWD remains of particular importance for the Left, one of those days to remember past struggles, to pay due homage to those women – strugglers and diehards [...]
Religiously-Speaking
Posted in Misc., Political Stuff, Relationships, tagged Catholicism, Childhood, Community, Family, Identity, Parenting, Personal, Relationships on March 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Been on a bit of Jesus thing lately. Thinking about religion, considering the role it plays in our understandings of the world, its function as an ethical code, a yearning for something more, a mark of community boundaries and so on. And generally considering the importance that religious symbols and religious communities have had at [...]
A Short Stream-of-Consciousness on Political Struggle and Relationship
Posted in Political Stuff, Relationships, tagged Identity, Personal, Politics, Relationships on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I am a communist, and an anarchist, and – despite the fact that I have not the slightest hint of belief in God – a Catholic. There are some, I’m sure, who find the last particularly worthy of ridicule or contempt, but so be it. And many who will wonder at how I identify as [...]
Growing Up
Posted in Family, Relationships, tagged Childhood, Family, Parenting, Personal, Relationships on February 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Lots of babies being born these days. Over the past six weeks or so, no less than seven people I know have had or are due to have brand-new gorgeous babies to welcome to the world. And that’s exciting to me, cause I love babies and I love to see new parents celebrate and find [...]
Weddings and Such
Posted in Family, Misc., Relationships, tagged Family, Personal, Relationships on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Well, since for the longest time I have either written nothing here or only come on to rant about what’s pissing me off, it is so so good to be finally back and writing something joyous.
Appreciating, Anticipating
Posted in Family, Relationships, tagged Parenting, Personal, Relationships on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am writing now, for the first time, with a pair of reading glasses across the bridge of my nose – not the result of the slowly-diminishing eyesight one expects at this age, but surgery on some crazy early cataracts I developed. My eyes generally had worked fine, but as the cataracts grew over , [...]
The Little Bits of Love
Posted in Relationships, tagged Relationships on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is nearing the end of March. A few short days from the 18 month mark for Megan and I. A few short weeks from our new home together. And I am feeling so damn good about this girl and this relationship and this future we are building. As we approach this new stage of [...]
Sabotage
Posted in Relationships, tagged Relationships on February 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A number of years back I travelled to Chicago for work – a conference of contract faculty union folks. And while there, as I sat in the bar one night a guy dropped into the stool beside me. He’d seen me at the conference, and as we started talking we realized we’d spoken on the [...]
Life Good, Capitalism Bad
Posted in Family, Political Stuff, Relationships, tagged Capitalism, Relationships on February 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Y’know, there is so much to celebrate, so much to live for, so much to love and to appreciate, to savour and to revel in. There is also, however, capitalism. And even on an individual, day to day level, capitalism fucks with us and fucks with all that is good and decent in the world. [...]
