from Ulysses:

"We are not now that strength which in old days
moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are...
one equal temper of heroic hearts,
made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Or humid and smelly, as the case may be. I'm moving back to new orleans just as soon as I find a job there...I've been living in another state for nearly two years and could never bear to change it on my profile. I dream about my home all the time. My work there is not done.
I can't wait. My friends there are already saying to me, "welcome home."

It's funny what can send a person into her dark places. Sometimes it's something seemingly small, an idle comment made by someone while you are in Target, buying socks, being flipped off by an obnoxious driver for no discernible reason...little things. A dear friend asked me once what it felt like to be "crazy" (my word, not his). I told him it feels like beating against the inside of my own skull, trying to get out or trying to get a moment's relief from the old tape recorded messages, t... read more

That it is nearly impossible to have an intelligent discussion about so-called "women's issues" (shouldn't some of these issues more properly be called "human rights issues') without so many men (and some women) immediately feeling the need to try to discredit any point that is said, no matter how rational and well-supported it is, and start mudslinging at the speaker, calling her a crazy feminazi bitch or something similar? Why do I feel the need to have to qualify my statements with "now I ... read more

on Feb. 2, 2008 in Jackson, Mississippi. Ariellah will teach a 4 hour workshop that Saturday, and the Black Hearts Ball will be Sat. night, with multiple performers from the South and with Ariellah as the star. Email me for more info.