I usually just delete emails from authors who contact me with information to add to my website but this book just sounds too great: Princess Bubble. It’s a fairytale where the princess is happily ever after without getting married. Here’s an interview with the author. She wants to encourage her readers to find happiness with or without a man. If you read the book, please let us know how you liked it and if there was any singlism in there. Accidental singlism, rather, because from what it sounds like Princess Bubble did face some stigmatization because she still hadn’t found … Continue reading »
Sep 302008
Sep 292008
I usually don’t like to post other people’s writing in its entirety but I don’t have time to summarize this, so here it is: Michael Moore’s email on the Bail Out. (Note: The link to phone numbers for members of Congress MM provided does not work all the time, so here are some alternatives: source. You can also find your Senator here and your Rep here. Be patient! These sites are getting a lot of use…) Friends, Let me cut to the chase. The biggest robbery in the history of this country is taking place as you read this. Though … Continue reading »
Sep 282008
As I have mentioned before, I have hypothyroidism caused by Hashimoto’s Disease. A couple of weeks ago, I finally realized that my lack of energy might have something to do with my thyroid. I had two normal TSH tests earlier this year, so it took me a bit to make that linkage. My TSH levels had increased more than 7-fold. I am now on a higher dosage but am wondering what created that increase in TSH values less than 4 months after a completely normal test. Plus my symptoms are pretty persistent. One of the things that I keep reading … Continue reading »
Sep 282008
Living in a rather expensive area of the U.S. – the San Francisco Bay Area – I have thought about how nice it would be to share many of my expenses with someone else. Well, some of us might now have a way to do just that without having to commit to an intimate relationship: CoAbode is offering to match up single mothers for co-housing. What a neat idea! And you don’t have to share your living space either, CoAbode also has a Circle of Friends, which is more community building than house-sharing. I will have to check this out! … Continue reading »
A lot of people are invoking the Great Depression these days but few make clear links between what is happening now in the U.S. financial markets and the dismantlement of the regulatory safeguard enacted after the Great Depression. Leave it to some Fools do outline the connections. Taking a historical walk-through, they outline how the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 was step by step dismantled to create a similar financial environment as before the Great Depression. Fools know precisely how this brief experiment with a deregulated financial sector has turned out. Staring into the face of financial ruin, the Federal Reserve … Continue reading »
The Canadian 2006 Census uncovered an interesting phenomenon: Only 17% of same-sex couples took advantage of their legal right to marry (compared to 80% of different-sex couples). Jillian Deri analyzes why. The primary reason, as Nancy Polikoff also pointed out, is that same-sex couples in Canada don’t have to marry to get legal rights. So, there’s no need to marry. The same, though, holds true for different-sex couples, so there must be more. Deri stresses that same-sex couples are part of a movement that had to build alternatives to marriage. Partly out of necessity and partly out of desire, we … Continue reading »
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