Dobson comes from the same background that my parents did, and while my mother never hurt me, she let my father hurt me at least once a day. Now that he's old do I physically hurt him? No. I don't see him and I don't initiate contact. He's heading into Alzheimers so I suspect soon enough even that won't hurt him.
Like Xopher, I was surprised to find our life was not normal. My father was also in the Navy and there's a book that helped me a lot with how my brother and I were treated: Military Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress, by Mary Edwards Wertsch. I had no idea other children were hurt because they didn't have dinner on the table the very instant their father sat down, I thought that was just us. I read this book a chapter at a time with lots of crying between but it was a window into parts of my childhood.
No matter how often my father beat me or said horrible things to me, I never believed in his god, so he certainly failed in that area.
I wore my spring coat to the rheumatologist appt today, it has the "all one people" button and the Pinocchio Bush button. Webster and her staff gathered and laughed like crazy at the Bush button. I had no idea they were all so sensible.
JVP, Andrea Dworkin is certainly at peace, since she died last week.
Jerry, any man (or woman) who has reached general/admiral knows how to get things done with people who are not able to refuse to do them.
That's not the same as civilian leadership.
And will it have a zeppelin mast?
Sister Howitzer of Desirable Mindfulness. I thnk Jill is better at mindfulness than I am. Let's look at the reformed: Sister Flaming Chakram of Reasoned Moderation. Ah, much better.
Patrick, you're allergic to cats, all you'd *have* is pictures.
Have you see last week's Doonesbury? (I'm almost through last Sunday's WashPost now.) Roland has become the new Jeff.
I'd like to see Sasha "grown up and sophisticated," but rumor is you guys aren't coming to Minicon this year.
Years before he was a teen, I gave Jo's offspring a set of beaded zipper pulls: a dragon and a rocket. He played with the dragon all the weekend, I wonder if he still has the spaceship, now that he likes SF better.
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Grgg, most of us here are smart enough to read disemvowelling.
Grgg, I used to have a big three-story house in Arlington, Virginia. I made my first $100K/year in 1977. Then I became disabled and everything changed. Even with disability insurance and Social Security, I have only a small condo that I couldn't afford to buy now. I couldn't afford to live anywhere in this area now if I lost the condo for some reason.
So current situations are not necessarily predictors of future situations.
Piscus, Native American beadwork doesn't use glue. Everything is sewn except the Huichol masks and they use a blend of beeswax and pine resin to stick the beads on.
Julie L., I feel that way often, but I already have more seed beads than all the local bead stores put together. When I go to Minicon in a couple of weeks, I'm going to be buying more from my friend Sandi in Mpls. I have her ship them home, they make the luggage too heavy.
(I'm primarily a seed beader, not a stringer.)
I frequently bead more than three hours a day, but not in the Native American tradition, which is clearly where the ad is aimed -- at Native American kids in Maine. Maybe they *will* want to do something traditional.
On the other hand, a fair number of the beaders I know at least do pot.
The WashPost reports on all the Arlington funerals, plus others in the local area. Two, yesterday.
Because the girl with the daisy is more artistic?
Semi-related: In Friday's WashPost Gossip column, Rush Limbaugh is quoted as saying "Women still live longer than men because their lives are easier."
What VD seems to have missed is that a lot of male writers of hard SF are not that good at physics, either. And then there are the women who do physics, but don't write. Not everybody wants to be a writer; I'm happy to read good SF.
I don't read much fantasy, but the best one I've read in a while is Lisa Goldstein's Dark Cities Underground.
Patrick, are you going to buy the sequel to Reflex? I want to know what jumping does to fetuses.
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