Ocean Dreamer

Roller Derby, why have I not been to see you before?  You are awesome.
I went on Saturday for my friend Anne’s birthday – to see the four teams in the Rat City Rollergirls.  Awesome, awesome, awesome time!  When I was a kid, I *lived* in my roller skates – to the point that, when skating, [...]

Hey Folks,
Yes, I’m still here. It’s been a busy month with school. Sorry for the lack of updates.
I’m heading in to the doctor in a couple of hours for my next insem. I’m crossing my fingers that it’s the right time. I got a very odd reading on my [...]

It has not been a good week.  I’ve kind of debated about writing on here about this, but in the end I decided to.  As a result of all the crap that’s happening at school, I’ve been dealing with a lot of internalized homophobia.  I suppose I dealt with it before I really came out [...]

I’ve been vegetarian for about ten years.  In that time, I only ate chicken on a trip to Italy, because I wasn’t sure what gluten free food I would find.  In all that time, I never had any craving for meat.  Not once.  Yet for the past week, ever since visiting my lovely locally-owned co-op [...]

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 [...]