Ithaka Bound

The Best Laid Plans…

Unfortunately, my parents had to cancel their trip to Bosnia, so I’ve cancelled my own trip through the Balkans as well. I was really excited about escorting them and it just doesn’t seem right to go alone.  I really hope they’ll be able to go at another time, because they need one more trip to [...]

Where’s the Goddess Nemesis* when you need her?

Please stop by Natalie Karneef’s blog and offer your moral support.  You can find the beginning of the story here. See if it gets your blood boiling as rapidly as it did mine.
Five years ago, Natalie was drugged and raped while vacationing in Greece.  To add massive insult to injury, she was then turned away [...]

Hijacked

My blog was hacked into by someone using the frightening moniker Sn!peR-BaghdaD.  I think they would be scarier if they knew how to spell.  This is what they left on the home page:
“…if you see this page, make sure that was here, and that the security 100%”
“…what a hell we doing her”
I am all [...]

Thanksgiving

Have a great day with your families, everyone!

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Dare to be Great

I was walking down a street in Georgetown the other day and heard a woman make a comment about me to the friend at her side. The comment concerned something I’ve always considered to be quite normal about myself, but apparently the women had an altogether different idea of what constituted normal.
The comment didn’t [...]

Rehashing the Past

I thought I would rehash some of the past, before going on to the future.

I wanted to tell you about the morning in November of 2007, when I woke up without a soul.

At that moment, I realized that something necessary for my well-being was missing.  It wasn’t a nagging feeling of something forgotten, like the [...]

Who took away my colors?

So right after I post about how much I love a brightly colored world, someone goes and steals all the best colors off my blog.
I upgraded my blog theme, and the results were really wonky.
Hopefully the theme designer will have a solution, if not, I’ll find a new home theme.  What a bummer though–that banner [...]