September 16th, 2007
Muffins.
The cooking bug has bit me again. Here you see absolutely delicious peanut butter chocolate chip muffins. This recipe was my jumping off point, and I added some chopped peanuts and some rolled oats, and they came out absolutely perfect; firm yet soft and moist in texture, yet they didn’t stick to the […]
Filed under: fluff and musings by Amy's Brain Today
September 14th, 2007
Free food in the backyard
Remember how I was complaining about the backyard a few weeks ago?
Turns out, after discussions with E and C, that those weeds back there are lamb’s quarters.
According to Wikipedia:
Lamb’s quarters may be eaten as a vegetable, either steamed in its entirety, or the leaves are cooked like spinach as a leaf vegetable. Each plant […]
Filed under: albuquerque, environment, fluff and musings by Amy's Brain Today
“So. . . how do you torture a woman?”
Well, you can tie her up on the rack and rip her bones apart from the sockets. That’s one way. Or you can tear apart her mind and her body. Now there’s two ways to do this: You can pry her body away from her mind, or you can pry her […]
Filed under: feminism as politics, lesbian feminism, personal is political, words from women by Amy's Brain Today
Friday Cat Blogging
O lard, the belly.
Pauline’s still around, just in case you were wondering. She hasn’t been featured lately because basically all she does is sleep and pester me for food. Not very photogenic.
Filed under: cats by Amy's Brain Today
September 13th, 2007
Anna Livia, RIP
I’m sad to hear that one of my favorite lesbian-feminist authors has died, apparently unexpectedly though peacefully. From the UC Berkeley website:
[Anna Livia] was not only an important linguist, scholar, and translator, she was also a dedicated feminist, and an award winning lesbian novelist. Much of her scholarly work dealt with the relationship between […]
Filed under: lesbian feminism by Amy's Brain Today
September 11th, 2007
War Tax Boycott: Plan Now for 4/15/2008
From WarTaxBoycott.org:
Over the past year, peace activists have voted, lobbied, marched, and taken direct action to end the war in Iraq. Courageous soldiers have refused to fight the war. But Congress has appropriated billions of dollars to continue the war and appears ready to authorize a future military attack on Iran. It’s time for […]
Filed under: activism/organizing, personal is political, resistance, tax resistance by Amy's Brain Today
September 4th, 2007
From Colorlines: Suicide Rates Up Among Latina Teens
By Daisy Hernández, Colorlines:
A Federal study has found that one in six Latina teenagers has attempted suicide. That’s a rate roughly one and a half times as high as that among Black and white teenage girls…
These tragic situations are not only about parent-child conflicts. They’re also the result of the institutional problems […]
