Cindy Sheehan is coming to speak at a panel discussion here in Springfield Mo that will include a Army Officer currently stationed in Iraq. Her being included in the days events have already caused some conflict and concern, but the panel will go on as planned. Springfield is considered a conservative, republican town so it [...]

Someone asked me this past week why I chose to never have children, so many reasons really, of which the following is just a part of those,

As a Bastard child of Adoption. I wish my mother had been given all the options
women today have. Unwed, the father heading to Vietnam, 1969 in Kansas. Buckle
of the [...]

Sometimes it feels like there are forces at work to keep me from the intertubes.

First we lose internet connect due to the move… for a month

then my computer decides to be a bitch

then the biggest ice storm in the last 50 years hits my area and I am without power in freezing cold weather for [...]

 looking at my calender there are only 25 more days then I am done for winter break. Of course in those next twenty five days,

I have a paper due,

an art project due and paper on said project due,

and at least three more tests

plus my finals.

My brain is melting and my fingers cramping from all [...]

Would it have been that hard for my mom to have picked up the phone and called to tell me happy birthday? Or any of my family for that matter. FUCK ~ ! ! !

It hurts no matter how you slice and you would think that by now at the ripe old fucking age of [...]

As soon as you’re born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you’re clever and they despise a fool
Till [...]

words written by the Honey Bee that I do think deserve repeating….
 
‘Breathe, Bitch…... Breathe’

You take one look at me,
Don’t like what you see?
Take your opinion home to dinner,
Tell your whole family about me.
Tell your daughter she better never.
Tell your son to stay far away from the likes of me.
I smile.  I have comfort in who [...]

is it admitting to failure, when I say I cant do it any longer?

The 14 hour days are too much…

I do not have any time for anything I am struggling to keep up with my homework and am not getting near enough sleep

But the discipline is still there, I have yet to not get an [...]