Online petitions drive me bonkers. Even as I say this, I feel the need to apologize, primarily because all of the people I know who are super into signing and passing around online petitions are really, really, really good people. It’s not that I don’t like supporting causes or that I’m an Internet skeptic/alarmist/paranoid or […]
Things Worth Doing
My dog died recently. It was awful, it is still awful, and I’m not going to write about it all except as a vehicle for a rant about the things we often fill out time with that seem completely meaningless. Like, for example, writing a thank you card to someone who volunteered to help your […]
Women Leaving
It never fails. Just when you are in the home stretch of one writing project you become seized with a brand new idea. There will be no editing of your 200-page pile of amateur tonight. No, no; you’ve got something better coming down the pipe. For me, today, it’s the topic of women leaving. I […]
Natalie Burg 