Ocean Dreamer

Today my friend A and I ventured north to buy ourselves some pumpkins.  Getting my pumpkin from the pumpkin patch has become an annual tradition for me, though I wasn’t sure if I’d have time this year, since I’ve got so much studying to do.  Happily, though, I was schoolwork free this weekend.  We both [...]

So Tuesday was my first day of official school in the teaching program.  Up until this point I have been doing independent studies, so this was my first opportunity to meet my cohort and most of the professors.  And, get this, y’all.  The cohort has 52 students.  And. I. am. the. only. queer.  In Seattle.  [...]

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 [...]

A bit late, but here are some photos from Pride last weekend. I went to many of the events and loved it. Last year I skipped most of them because of my parents’ Conservative Cruise got into Seattle the same weekend. (Yes, you read that right. People from Fox News and [...]

Last night I went to my friend J’s birthday party.  (Happy b-day, J!)  It was at a bar and included wild dart throwing (those observing were nearly hit several times), good times with some old friends from grad school, and opportunities to meet many sweet, new people (including one who’s preggo herself).  While there, I [...]

Sorry for the lack of posts for the past week.  Its been a pretty busy week between school and life in general.
I had friends over for a BBQ on Monday - it was a random mix of people but everyone seemed to have fun. The weather turned out to be nice (they were threatening [...]

Yesterday was my friend R’s birthday, and she had a piñata - actually two piñatas. Hilarious! They were stuffed with candy, like all good piñatas are, and after some mighty swings (and some hilarious misses - thanks to creative piñata raising and lowering), the ground was littered with candy. We started hitting [...]