Ocean Dreamer

I used to be a regularly donating member of KUOW, our local NPR affiliate.  There are things I love about KUOW, especially its good, accurate information about current events.  But more than once they have made homophobic or transphobic comments – especially during the pledge drive.  They are having their spring pledge drive right now, and [...]

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 [...]

Hi Folks,
Thanks so much for all your sweet and supportive comments about my school experience.  The school crappiness continues – most recently having a fit at me because I *dared* to request that people bring a list of ingredients to an upcoming potluck so I – and other folks with allergies – would know what [...]

I haven’t written on here much about my experiences at my grad school, mostly because they have been rather difficult and I haven’t wanted this blog to turn into a place for me to complain about things.  For much of the past quarter, however, I have experienced a lot of homophobia and ablism by many [...]

***UPDATE FOR SEATTLE***  The Seattle protest is at Volunteer Park, *not* the Seattle City Council Offices.  I have been told this directly by one of the organizers: there were originally two separate protests, but they have now merged into one.  More info here (including a link to their facebook group.)  You can also spread the [...]

I’ve been spending a lot of time over the past couple of days reading some of my favorite blogs.  I am so deeply disappointed over CA’s passage of prop 8 (and the bans in FL, AZ, and AR, though those were less shocking), so much so that I really couldn’t write anything on here about [...]

Wow, it’s been a long time since I posted.  School is taking up so much of my time, it’s hard to find time to clean my house, let alone write on here.  But, I am coming back and have very exciting news.  I’m set to start TTC again at the end of this month.  I [...]

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 [...]