Reading the Captain's Logs has inspired me to update my Sea Chantey pages. I've finally posted Zeke Hoskins' hilarious Bound for Valparaiso, two years after Zeke told me I could do it!
My first attempt at email logging.Labor Day weekend, Friday August 31 through Monday September 3rd, a bigArts and Literature Festival is held in the Seattle Center:Bumbershoot. WHEEL has a table in the Book Fair, Snoqua…
Light and Dark in SeattleWednesday, August 29: A day of promise and a day of shame. Twenty women joined in a vigil for Lukas Stidd today; ten homeless and formerly homeless women, and ten women not homeless. One woman …
Well, that's the first time that's happened to me -- I wrote a nice long log about the play I went to last night, submitted it, and it never appeared on my page! Disappeared into electron Limbo. Dropped into the bit bu…
The Seattle Times: Death gets too close to noticeI had planned to write about happier subjects today.My personal day was good, in fact. But at 4pm I got the news that we were doing another Women in Black vigil next Wedn…
My plans to attend the Slams tonight (Wednesday) have once more been postponed.Have you ever stayed up all night to complete a project, only to spend 9/10ths of the time on the kind of distractions that delayed you compl…
Bullying Online, a resource website from Great Britain. I learned of this website from an article at WrittenByMe, I Am The Person You Bullied At School. The title is taken from a poem on the site.Even after Columbine, …
A couple of lesson reminders in my email today. (Sunday)On one list, discussion New Social Movements, a member mused, "Maybe we put too much emphasis on accomplishing big things, big changes. Maybe we could get more peo…
Anonymity on the InternetMany people keep their identity masked on the Internet, and they are wise. In my case, many of the reasons I am out here on the Net -- to spread information and break down stereotypes about bipo…
In spite of the date logged, it's still Thursday in Seattle. I didn't post an entry Wednesday; it was a full day, and I was tired when I got home.WHEEL, a Seattle organization of homeless and formerly homeless women, ho…
bdreamwalker's August 14 entry prompts me to post what I have learned about self-esteem.For many, many years friends told me that I was treating myself badly and that I had to learn to "love myself." I thought I did lov…
Aargh! I haven't logged in a week!I used one of the Xanga Premium options to add some links down on the left about "What I Do While Not Logging." I didn't do all that much this last week, though. I do NOT function well…
I just signed up for the Xanga Premium Free Trial, so that I could use the "search" option. Let's see how this goes.It also comes with a Spell Checker, which can be useful. :) The "smileys" link still doesn't work. An…
For more about the Poetry Slams in Dallas, see an interview in artsDFW -- Clebo Rainey by Tim Wood.
Still sluggish. Wrote a log entry yesterday but lost it before finishing; my system crashed, probably because I had too many windows open. I like to cross-check info, look up references, include links — I get greedy.Go…
Today (this is really Friday the 3rd) ISaw my psych nurse; just a regular touch-base visit folks, I have been lower than normal since I got back from S.F. but I picked up a bit of flu there, so it's to be expected.Had en…
My list of Journalistic Ethics in Alternative Media is done and posted and open for discussion!
Discovery 7/26: Check out Dragon Valley Poetry.
Written 7/27 in a poetry workshop at the street newspaper conference:Locked up in hungry concretemuscles wrenchedstomach tightnervous mindcan't light. Officer Friendlyof the motorcycle drill corpsis shooting homeless bla…
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