Ocean Dreamer

***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 [...]

Well, y’all, I could be preggers right this minute.  (How’s that for an opening sentence, huh?)
The timing was *tricky* this time around.  For the past few months, when I wasn’t trying, my cycle was pretty long.  Last month it was 34 days.  So this month, when I called to order my spermies, I figured having [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday was Seattle’s annual Solstice Parade and fair (the fair itself continues today). This parade is one of my all-time favorite things about Seattle, especially because there are no advertisers allowed. It’s truly a parade by the people, for the people, and it shows some of the best of Seattle’s fun quirkiness.
I started the morning [...]

I truly do. All winter long we struggle through the cold, dark, rainy days, and then, when the first rays of Spring sun hit the city, Seattleites come out in droves. We had some of that gorgeous Spring weather on Sunday and Monday, and everywhere I looked, people were biking, frisbeeing, walking, playing [...]