Sea songs
The other day, Vardibidian mentioned putting together a playlist of sea shanties. Which reminded me that I put together a...
Happiness study, happiness video
There's a lovely 7-minute feel-good video that purports to reproduce a scientific study that, the video says, proves that the...
Too many places for notes
Sometime in the past year or two, I was thinking about anthologies I'd like to edit, and I came up...
Countdown update
A couple weeks ago, I posted about the mysterious countdown that was happening on the Pronunciation Book YouTube channel. Today,...
Freedom to Marry’s roadmap to victory
The marriage-equality organization Freedom to Marry has a roadmap showing their plan to get to full nationwide (US) marriage equality....
Anxiety
A friend posted a while back about anxiety meds greatly improving their quality of life. And some of the anxiety...
Mysterious countdown on YouTube channel
As pointed out on CNET a couple of months ago, a YouTube user called Pronunciation Book has recently switched from...
Nice moment
Twice during the course of WorldCon weekend, writers came up to me and thanked me for a personalized rejection I...
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Yesterday someone linked to Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail, and I realized that I had never read it...
Theatre women: Female characters in Streatfeild’s _Ballet Shoes_
As noted in my previous entry, I was cutting the Moomin books some slack on the gender-roles front because they...
Moominwomen: Female characters in Jansson’s first two Moomintroll books
Several of my friends grew up reading the Moomintroll books, so I've been hearing the books recommended for a long...
Improving
Friday night, I belatedly remembered that I have strategies and techniques for improving my mood. So I rewatched a Gilmore...