http://grabapple.net No moneyman can win her love. Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:55:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Go here. Keep your fork, there's pie. http://grabapple.net/entry/494 I am giving some serious thought to ending this run of my blogging life, if only because it covers such a huge chunk of time (as my Diaryland diary, since '99, as Grabapple, since 2002) and because it's just become unwieldy. I'm thinking I'd like a new blog look, new ... http://grabapple.net/entry/493 We should have known when he stopped sleeping through the night for a week or so. The baby books warn you that sudden sleeplessness is either illness or growing of new skills. Kind of like when the lady in Species would go to sleep and wake up 10 years older. ... http://grabapple.net/entry/492 Do you know I have been writing this blog, in one form or another, nearly 10 freakin' years? And I'm TIRED. Anyway, being tired, and being snowed in with Life, and needing a change, I am taking a Blogcation until...um...huh. How about June? That sounds about right. When it' s ... http://grabapple.net/entry/491 During my semester abroad sophomore year, I knew a guy named Amos* who it was impossible to hate. He was a hard-drinking, partying sardonic type, smart but mostly funny in an extremely bitter way that I've always found attractive. We all partied because we were all giddy at being legal ... http://grabapple.net/entry/490 ...and I've been the bad absent blogger. I think it's just that a lot of what's in my head hasn't been post-able. We've been sick, we've been busy, blah blah boring cakes. February is like that though...a long blah month with Valentine's Day a sort of forced-happy-but-not-really holiday in the ... http://grabapple.net/entry/488 Are women insane? I ask because if you think about the question of abortion, eventually you have to confront this question too. You have to confront the inexplicable, overwhelmingly documented willingness of women to hurt themselves to escape an unwanted pregnancy. At least you do if you are privileged or naive ... http://grabapple.net/entry/487 Courtesy chippenziedeutch via Flickr Creative Commons license. Not our baby, but cute, no? Colors: lello, red, boo, geen. Food: onj, cacker, nomnom* (any tasty food), meeyuk (milk), momaar (more milk, or just more), shee-shee (cheese) Things: buk (book), pane or ehpane (airplane), fy (fly), A-A-A (ABCs), moon, star, bat (bath), dog or ... http://grabapple.net/entry/483 ...and think it's hilarious that I can say "my therapist." So very not me, as I usually think of myself. But you know, the crazy comes to us all, eventually. I can see that I have a lot of work ahead, but while scared at having to face unflattering truths about ... http://grabapple.net/entry/482 image courtesy Feministe What is it? No really, what IS it that freaks people out about Hillary Clinton? I have yet to hear a coherent explanation that makes the outsize fear she causes among certain people understandable. Except for the most obvious one. Other bloggers have covered this thoroughly, and I have ... http://grabapple.net/entry/480