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Sleeping. Lots and lots of sleeping. Well, and some writing. But that’s a given.

Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff over at Alas, A Blog has proposed creating women’s-only threads there. Well, Radical Feminist Women’s Threads, anyway. Because that’s what feminism is all about: creating a women’s-only treehouse so we can sit up there and throw eggs at the men’s-only treehouse. Yea. That’ll be real productive. Leaving the whole “What’s a radical

So, what’s up with douching? I always thought it was a kind of vagina-hate type of thing. Like, “My parts are sooo gross no one will like them unless they smell baby-fresh.” (which might say something right there. Yuck). I grew up hearing it was basically something that ruined the natural cleansing mechanism of your

I’ve been working out for awhile now, and dropped some of my stressed-in-South-Africa weight, which is nice. But beyond getting back to a comfortable size, a lot of people work out to get specific body results. My secret I-want-it-to-look-better spot isn’t my abs or my breasts (the myth still persists that if you do enough

I just got a 4.5% raise. There’s no other place I could work that would pay me this much to do what I do. I’m stunned. heh

The 25-year-old Mariash has been a runner for nearly as long as she can remember, and began competing in triathlons in 1998. Like many female athletes, she strictly limited her food — dipping as low as 800 calories a day — to improve her performance by losing weight. But her results were just the opposite.

Got back home to Chicago after reasonable airport delays and promptly fell into bed. I caught my mom’s cold, and it’s a crappy one. Had a great time spending Christmas at the Oregon Coast, at the Goonie beach. It was incredibly relaxing, which is just want I needed. I was pretty burned out on everything.

I’m flying into Portland tonight for a holiday with the folks in WA. Good wishes to all.

Thus Collins elegantly demonstrates the power of public perception in determining whether or not we manage to be happy in love. If, at the start of a century when women allegedly have it all, everyone is having the same arguments that were going round when women did not even have the vote, then progress is

My appreciation for Joanna Russ’s story, “When it Changed” is up. Check it out.