I marched in Portland, Maine today and instead of the 2000 people that were expected, over 10,000 showed up. It was an incredible experience to be surrounded by families and friends (and many, many men and children) who were just happy to celebrate the causes they believed in. Women’s rights, climate change,…
Why I am marching today (See you soon, NYC!):
On the eve of the inauguration, I think it’s a good time to remember that under President Obama, twenty million Americans gained health insurance, cutting the percentage of uninsured Americans to single digits; same-sex marriage was legalized; DADT was repealed; combat positions were opened to women and transgender…
I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is…
I pulled some tarot for you.
I’m reading Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, on the recommendation of Tana French, whose own books I’ve been obsessed with lately.
haha :P here it is: https://food52.com/recipes/66070-danielle-oron-s-salted-tahini-chocolate-chip-cookies i did 3/4C of tahini instead of half, based on some of the comments saying that it didn’t come through enough. it basically tastes like chocolate halvah. delicioussssss. i scooped the cookies and froze them…
Speaking of obdurate and bootless environmental policies —
hi everyone! what’s for dinner? it’s cold and drizzly and gloomy so i made baked ziti. i’m home alone but why should that stop me from cooking myself an awesome meal?? washed it down with a nice rioja.
In a way the apology is better and more humiliating to Trump than if she’d just said no in the first place.
God I can’t believe he is going to be gone. The last adult in Washington is trying to make us feel like America isn’t over.
We have a dress shop in my town but we also don’t have things like Uber or Olive Garden or other modernities.