As I’m just starting to revise the novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo, it’s occurred to me that I haven’t been reading much fiction lately, and it might be a good idea to change that.
So, I need some suggestions for fiction reading. I’ve got a copy of The Plot Against America waiting to be read, […]
I don’t often to “remainders” posts. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever done one. But there were a lot items on my radar and in my news reader today that were religiously related in one way or another. So many, in fact, that when I tried to tie them all together in a single […]
I’ve been seeing previews for The Devil Wears Prada, and as much as I’d like to see Meryl Streep sink her teeth into what looks like a pretty over-the-top role, I don’t think we’ll be spending any babysitting mojo on this one. I’ve heard the story (it’s thinly veiled account from a former assistant of […]
Remember that book? Yeah, I know. I kind of forgot about it too.
The manuscript of the novel I wrote during NaNoWriMo last year has been sitting on my desk since the beginning of this year. When I pulled it out of the drawer that had been its home since the end of November, I […]
OK. I wasn’t going to say anything about Mary Cheney’s recent full-court-press to promote her book in the media, but my bullshit meter just went so far in the red that I can’t stand it any more. I kept my mouth shut and just changed the channel when Mary did her face time with Diane […]
Or, according to a new study, it’s all in your brain.
Lesbians’ brains react differently to sex hormones than those of heterosexual women.
An earlier study of gay men also showed their brain response was different from straight men — an even stronger difference than has now been found in lesbians.
Lesbians’ brains reacted somewhat, though not completely, […]
it’s probably going to be disregarded by some people — the ones who are mostly unreachable anyway — but the ACLU and the Child Welfare League of America have written the book on gay parenting; the newest one anyway, and it seems appropriate to mention it at the end of a week when there’s been a […]
I have yet another reason for being embarrassed to be from Georgia. This time the Gwinnett County school board held a hearing to ban Harry Potter, at the request of missionary mom crying "anti-christian bias." Why? Witchcraft, of course. Who knows, maybe they’ll burn ‘em too, for good measure. It’s a good excuse for […]
Given how often I weigh in on religion, you’d think I’d have jumped on the story about the gospel of Judas by now. It’s not that I don’t have the inclination, just the time. I’ve been interested in the whole gnostic gospels thing since I read Elaine Pagels’ book years ago, and was […]
Given my interest in the whole subject of gender, and how often I’ve written about it here, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I picked up a copy of Norah Vincent’s Self-Made Man : One Woman’s Journey into Manhood and Back almost as soon as it was published. It caught my eye in Borders […]
I haven’t posted anything yet concerning the recent controversy over And Tango Makes Three, the children’s book based on the famed gay penguins of the gay penguins of the Central Park Zoo. Apparently, parents in Missouri raised such a ruckus that they got the books removed from the children’s’ sections of two libraries, and […]
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but (naturally) I forgot about it until a reader emailed me a request for some recommended reading for adults with ADD. I’ve always been an avid reader, and that dovetails with an ADD-related ability to hyperfocus on something I’m interested in, to the exclusion of nearly […]
Introverts forming a movement? As a self-professed introvert myself, that sounds kind of funny. It wouldn’t be a terribly noisy movement, that’s for sure. I picture of big group of people (assuming you could even get a significant number of us to gather) not talking to each other much. Funny as it may sound, it […]
Rachel has recommended a few times that I read Michael Kimmel’s essay “Masculinity as Homophobia,” and was kind a while back enough to send me a link to a copy of it after my own searches yielded little more than abstracts. So, I printed it out and read it during one of Parker’s swimming lessons […]
Several years ago, I was a regular Oprah viewer. I had my VCR (that should tell you how long ago) set to record her show every afternoon, and I’d watch it while having dinner after work. When I read elsewhere that she confronted James Frey on her show yesterday, I cursed myself for having […]