Today in Louisiana stupid. . . 30 Apr 2010 | 04:55 am

Our Legislature is in session and boy, are they having fun! First up: Abortion! Soon, all women seeing an abortion will have to have an "obstetrics ultrasound" before the procedure. It's not spelled ...

Oh yeah. . . 23 Apr 2010 | 01:19 am

I haz a blog! Doh! So....I am now an officially married woman. Yay me! We got married March 5, at a little chapel in New Orleans, just the two of us. It was lovely. So far, so good. The government w...

FINALLY! 19 Jan 2010 | 01:00 pm

Emmy's VISA has offically been approved! They are mailing it to her within the next two days. Then she books ticket. Then she flies here. Then we gets married. Then FINALLY it's all sorted and do...

And I'm back for a rant. . . . . 7 Nov 2009 | 04:41 am

This should be a good time for me. I just had my birthday. Emmy is in the final stages of getting her Visa approved. She should (could) be here by Christmas. I have a little money in the bank and n...

The Nightmare of Christianity 14 Sep 2009 | 10:34 am

This post rings very true to me. My family was Southern Baptist, not Pentacostal and I attended public schools, but the treatment of children strikes a cord in me. And, while I wouldn't blame Christia...

I haz a new crush. 14 Sep 2009 | 05:39 am

Untitled 10 Sep 2009 | 01:22 am

Decatur Street If my grief were a tangible thing, it would be a throbbing red ball pulled from the deepest pit of my stomach. Heavy and aching, but slowly, constantly, in that way you can grow accust...

Read this 22 Aug 2009 | 08:44 am

The nearest thing we have to a death panel in the United States is an insurance company claims adjuster.

Another one 20 Aug 2009 | 01:21 am

Fight with a Friend What can I say? Watching you derail And spin apart Knowing there isn't anything I can do Is taking a part of me I thought was safe And turning it into A place where Monsters live.

More Poems 15 Aug 2009 | 03:24 am

I'm thinking of calling the collection Ordinary Things. Lately, that's how I'm writing. I look at something and think, I could write a poem about that, and then...well. Here are a few more I've writte...