Hello, reader. How you doing? Ming was recently interviewed by a newspaper about family history. It made me think about boundaries and how I’ve been treated by the press over the years. A few times, I’ve come out of the experience feeling used. So I’ve thought a lot about the temporary relationship that forms during… Read More »
Hello, reader–how are you doing? You know how you read some books when you were young that shook your world and changed you forever? For me The Wanderground by Sally Miller Gearhart was one of those books. I read this speculative fiction when I was a teenager–like most of what I read at the time,… Read More »
I saw this book at the library–What Have You Changed Your Mind About? What a great question. I remember when I was in high school, I had a friend who was an environmentalist. She was upset that a special northern place was being considered for oil drilling. It was a wild place–I think it was… Read More »
Hello, how are you doing? I’d like to tell you about my interview on Madness Radio. It posted yesterday: Love Is a Skill. Please listen and share. Love Is a Skill | Laura-Marie & Jacks McNamara | Madness Radio The interviewers Will Hall and Jacks McNamara are rock stars of radical mental health. They are… Read More »
“Hey, dear. I think we should make some walnut boxes. It would be a great way to use less plastic… Just put a hinge on the whole walnut shells. Yeah! Walnut boxes would be so cute!” I said. We were in Ojai. Ming was driving us from the farm toward town. He seemed open to… Read More »
Hey, guess what. I was hanging out over zoom with some fantastic anarchists elsewhere. And we were thinking what to read next. So I made a list of my favorite things to learn and think about, in an anarchist study group kinda mode. I decided to share the list with you, reader, in case you… Read More »
Last time Ming and I were at the cabin, I fucked up my back. There’s no good chair there for me, so I sit on the bed, which means I don’t have back support, as I write. How I care for my back is rather straightforward. But I thought I’d tell you about it,… Read More »
Here are some day ideas, if you need new things to do. day ideas sing a lot nature visit try a new food hear a language you don’t know learn a home ec thing learn a history thing dance for hours–ecstatic dance do a ritual art project outside your norm write a letter learn a… Read More »
Hey, there was a meme I was dissatisfied by, so I had some commentary, made a list of my own, of what stops change, in my life. I realized it would make a terrible meme because it was too much. Then I realized there were factors inside me and outside me. So I thought I… Read More »
I think Silvia Federici has a new old book Revolution at Point Zero. Guest Blogger here. Silvia’s book arrived today from PM Press in a brown paper wrapper. Our hero regular blogger, is an acolyte of Silvia and of Noam Chomsky. Boyfriend Noam is more well known. Boyfriend Noam is pretty old. If boyfriend Noam… Read More »