The crazy lady strikes again

After my recent writing binge, I took some time off - at least from writing in this blog. (I've been focusing on writing in Thanks, Dad and The Secret Life of Cats instead.) That changed when I worked (with Garfield, of course) on today's entry in The Secret Life of Cats. She mentioned the Western custom of celebrating New Year's Eve by going on what amounts to a date. Restaurants and bars just love this time of year, because they can charge outrageous sums for what I feel is very little value.... Sign in to see full entry.

In my last entry, I talked about the survivors of the 1972 Andes crash. I've been thinking all day about these sixteen young men, and I think I've finally extracted an important lesson from their story - a story with which I am almost as familiar as I am with my own. It's the same one SuccessWarrior has been trying to teach us in Holy Church of Blog, if you think about it. (I link to that blog on the side of all my blogs.) These sixteen survivors didn't passively wait for God to intervene in... Sign in to see full entry.

This morning (12/29/2006), the History Channel has been running a Real to Reel feature, with a focus on the survivor of a 1972 airplane crash in the Andes mountain range. They ran the movie Alive, followed by a half-hour special entitled Die Another Day. The real-life story goes something like this. In October of 1972, 45 passengers and crew (the passengers were mostly the members of the Uruguayan Old Christians rugby team, and their loved ones and friends) took off from a Carrasco, Uruguay... Sign in to see full entry.

A comment on my last entry to this blog prompted me to return to a specific discussion of nursing and its dominance by women. I've found, in my experience as a chronic health-care consumer, that nursing is indeed a pink-collar ghetto, whether we like the idea or not. I can think of perhaps a handful of men I've known personally who have maintained a nursing practice, and the majority of them are in intensive-care nursing, where the stakes are high and decisions must be made on a split-second... Sign in to see full entry.

First of all, I failed to mention another profession in which we women hold a demographic stranglehold - nursing. The vast majority of nurses - with some exceptions, particularly in semi-independent practice settings and intensive-care units - are women. Despite all the talk of equality in the feminist movement of my youth, there has been remarkably little change in this demographic fact since my childhood. One does not see men fight for the equal right to practice nursing in the same way... Sign in to see full entry.

If you're reading this, and you've been exposed at all to the American media, you're well aware of the death of Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States, which came to light overnight. I've already alluded to some of this in my blog, Thanks, Dad, but I felt that this issue deserved greater attention here. At the time Ford was sworn in as our first - and so far, only - unelected President, our country was coming out of the Watergate-induced crisis. During his tenure as President, we... Sign in to see full entry.

Someone left a comment on one of my recent posts asking, "what are they hiding?" I thought his (or her - the comment was left by someone with an androgynous name) comment deserved further scrutiny, in a more lengthy fashion than a comment will allow. The short course is that people who separate themselves from those who disagree with them, particularly for religious reasons, are not necessarily hiding anything. This goes especially for those of a Christian separatist bent, "in the trenches,"... Sign in to see full entry.

I couldn't disagree more with some of the positions espoused by the owner of this Blogspot blog. But I visit it on occasion because this blogger makes me think. One of the posts - you'll have to scroll down to get to it, but rest assured that it's there - talks about the genetic enhancement of the human species. I disagree with his position strongly, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have the right to make his point. I don't necessarily feel he's being hate-filled or mean or anything, just that... Sign in to see full entry.

At least I believe this is good news. I've been dealing with some of the issues I've discussed in earlier entries in this blog, and all I can do now is hope that I have been successful in doing so. Only time will tell if my hunch is right. One of the things I've been struggling with is the fact that I've been put in what I consider a difficult position by my husband in particular. I've at least implied in earlier entries - in here and in other blogs - that the environment in which he would have... Sign in to see full entry.

I've been thinking a great deal this morning of the live-action TV version of Beauty and the Beast, which starred Linda Hamilton of Terminator fame as Catherine Chandler, and Ron Perlman as Vincent, the leonine who served as the Beast. I've written about this series before in at least one earlier entry, and I mentioned in brief, in that entry, that I felt Catherine Chandler was viewed (at least by the producers and scriptwriters, implicitly) in a very sexist fashion. The TV series contrasts with... Sign in to see full entry.