what follows are excerpts from an essay i wrote in 1995 on women in philosophy, and how women’s voices often speak more to the particular (i.e. real life examples and experiences) rather than the general. it is interesting to look back on it, to see what’s still the case, and what has changed. in the… Continue reading digging for a voice
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ye old ego
how much joy, power & money have you abandoned to avoid a little dent in your ego? what an interesting question, posted by harvey griffin on twitter the other day. (it seems like sometimes i get all my inspiration from twitter, doesn’t it?) oh, let me count the ways! let me, also, sidestep for… Continue reading ye old ego
vancouver thunderstorm on a wordless wednesday
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will and willpower
while my blog was in hiatus, i was not entirely silent. conversations happened on twitter, for example this one regarding the concepts of “will” and “will power”, mostly with gassho. i was going to comment on some of these, also give you the tweets of what other people were saying. but perhaps it would be… Continue reading will and willpower
a script for mental illness
we need to find a way to talk about mental illness. how do we communicate our feelings and our experiences?
blogathon 2009
hello everyone – well, i’m cautiously optimistic that my blog is stable now, at least with the bare bones. still have to figure out all kinds of things; how to get the images to do what i want, how to get the plugins back in; it doesn’t want to do that yet. but the posts… Continue reading blogathon 2009
i’m baaack!
after over a month of problems with my database, it looks like we’re 90% done with fixing it. there’s still a bunch of redirecting and domain transferring going on but i THINK the blog can be used now again – just in time for the blogathon! can you send me some comments to let me… Continue reading i’m baaack!
taking responsibility: constance barnes and the braidwood enquiry
i was going to offer you another poem of sarah’s in this post but there’s something i need to say before we move on to that. the braidwood enquiry into robert dziekanski’s death, the polish immigrant who was tasered at the vancouver airport in the fall of 2007. and constance barnes. right from the very… Continue reading taking responsibility: constance barnes and the braidwood enquiry
free-form writing frenzy #6: try softer!
elizabeth’s writing prompt #6 “when you try too hard, it doesn’t work.” when you try hard, period, never mind “too”. makes me think of trying to eat an old piece of dark rye bread, back in my grandparent’s place. they had the bread guy come buy once every two weeks. yes, every two weeks. dark… Continue reading free-form writing frenzy #6: try softer!
free-form writing frenzy #5: truth. epistemology.
elizabeth’s writing prompt #5 my quirks and errors are part of my truth. truth. such a harsh mistress. in order to know my truth, i have to know myself. like anyone else, i have i don’t know how many bones, i don’t know how many muscles, i don’t know how many kilometres of gut, hair… Continue reading free-form writing frenzy #5: truth. epistemology.