I'm out on the porch swing, listening to the frogs and the crickets compete for the airwaves. I feel a voice welling up inside of me that's been muffled for so many years. It's the voice I used when Michael taught me to scream. It's the voice I used to tell countless assholes to please fuck off. It's the voice I used at 4 years old to say "NO!" to my preschool oppressors. It is my inner riotgrrrl, my androgynous and angry voice crying for justice and an end to rampant stupidity. It is a voice... read more

Ice Mass Snaps Free From Canada's Arctic:
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061...c_ice_break

The Baltic Sea Is Out of Ice:
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2006...61229132839

The northern hemisphere is growing noticeably warmer. If this is on Yahoo news, what do we not know? Even scientists believed that global warming would take place at a slower rate than this. Should we worry? Should we panic? Should we go on living as we have been and p... read more

Autumn leaves plastered to the wet ground like a patchwork quilt, I step quietly over them thankful for the rain, thankful for their beauty and for the seasons. I long for a more in tune existance. I long for a change...

I spent the semester getting my hopes up only to be ultimately let down quite hard. I'm sorry, folks, but there's no hope in the public schools. Teachers are being trained to turn your children into warm blooded computers who can fill in multiple choice bubbles and recite ... read more

Yesterday I learned that in exchange for all the blood, sweat, and tears, all the nights of very little sleep, all the overpriced mandated tests, all the agony over group projects, all the stress of working in a classroom that's not my own knowing what I know about pedagogy, all the pain and agony and stress that has come into my life this semester through the teacher ed program at San Jose State will someday be rewarded by the state of California and it's lack of sufficiently educated teache... read more

The reason angels can
fly is that they take
themselves so lightly.

-GK Chesterton