Ocean Dreamer

This is my friend M’s cat, Lucy. About a year ago, M went out of town and her friend combed enough fur off Lucy to create another cat - as you can see. M took pictures and sent them off to people. I forwarded them on to my family and apparently other [...]

For the past few years, I have been working with Push magazine, an all-volunteer run queer feminist magazine that is based here in Seattle. We put out one (sometimes two) issues a year, on topics such as class, sex and gender, and food. Each issue included essays, interviews, poetry, and artwork from queer [...]

My spiritual path up until this point has involved a lot of exploration (including protestant christianity - which I was born into, Judaism, Buddhism - a little with my Buddhist ex, and various forms of Paganism and Wicca).  I spent several years practicing Judaism and loved so much about it and gained so much from [...]

Congrats to the folks at two of my favorite blogs on the birth of their babies:

QueerBabyMaking’s baby girl was born August 10th and
Role Playing with Kids‘ twin boys (their second set!) were born August 2nd

Hooray for new babies in the blogosphere.

I’m going to be taking a TTC break until October.  If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, you know that I’m also in grad school.  I’ll be getting my Master in Teaching for elementary ed and will graduate in July.  While grad school is important, having a baby has always been my top priority.  [...]

Anyone else have days where you get nothing done?  I worked so hard getting all my coursework and other work done that I now have little energy to do anything other than watch the Olympics and read other blogs.  (The positive here: I have found a bunch of new blogs that I like.)
I really need [...]

So since I last posted, I have:

visited 4 states (not counting those I drove or flew through),
finished my coursework for the summer,
gone camping on both sides of the country,
gone to my first Single Mothers by Choice (SMC) meeting, and
found out that I am definitively not pregnant.

I saw Pam (my acupuncturist) yesterday and she mentioned [...]