SpiderFarmer

So, the husband captured the funniest thing leaving our neighborhood and getting on I30 this morning.  Rumor has it that there was a scooby snax heist at the local grocers.  Suspects are considered stoned and shaggy.

Dan Savage cites a Jackson Free Press article today about a student in Mississippi that has been completely erased from her school book, despite being an honor student and one of the top performing academians. Kids who dropped out and kids who got busted for drugs were in the yearbook, but because Ceara Sturgis openly [...]

So, I was looking around for sculpture classes, figuring that my little fondant critters and things that go on cakes would be a lot better if I had at least *some* foundation in sculpture…but along the way, I got distracted.  As I do.  The Creative Arts Center Of Dallas was offering a ton of [...]

Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of Nickel and Dimed, has for the past two months been writing a series of opinion essays in the New York Times that discuss poverty, both new and entrenched. The pieces, so far, are “Too Poor to Make the News,” “A Homespun Safety Net,” and “Is It Now A Crime [...]