Blog o’ Gnosis

I was something of a tomboy as a kid, and even though I was not very good at it I loved to join the boys’ kickball game at recess. This was back in the golden years, ages 9-11, when it was still possible to ignore the impending onset of strict gender roles. It was also in those not-so-golden pre-Title IX days, when girls didn’t play sports and there were very few teachers who thought they should. There were very few of us girls who had either the courage or the obliviousness to actually try getting in on the games–I can count us on two or three fingers, I think. Lately, the memory of these games has been on my mind.

Today I woke up late (ah, luxury!), so when I got up to walk Vince the sun was fairly high in a sky completely free of clouds. It was so clear I could see past the entrance to Tomales Bay all the way to the tip of Pt. Reyes, and the ocean was a balmy blue that looked more like Monterey Bay than Bodega Bay.

Oh why oh why did I choose wordpress for my blogging software? It’s great, I love that good feeling that comes from using open source software, and I’m proud of figuring out how to upload and configure it all by myself. But it is a little too geek-ified for me. Every time I upgrade to [...]