Dear, dear neglected Thursday Thirteeners and All You Usual Suspects,

What’s going on? Should I dare to try to write a Thursday 13 list, even though I don’t have a brain in my head? (Long month. New job. Much going on with piano lessons, Girl Scouts, swimming and etc. Plus it’s cold. I am shivering. Too many excuses, sorry.) I say yes.

Thirteen Things I Have Used as Security Blankets Over the Years: (more…)

Do you love Debi Mazar? I do. I’ve loved her since waaaaaaaaaaaay back when she did Madonna’s make-up (how do I happen to know this little tidbit, about her humble beginnings? Why did that alert me to who Ms. Mazar was? I have no idea), before Entourage, before Civil Wars, before Spike Lee. I love that girl. She and her husband, Gabriele Corcos, love to cook. You’ll find them at Under the Tuscan Gun…

They’re adorable.

Bon appetit!

WM

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”

— Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)

Dear Internets,

I wish I had time to blog. What’s new with you? Later, gator.

WM

ps don’t forget our PDX meet-up with Lelo in NoPo, Melissa Lion at me meet-up, this Saturday at Ladybug, 10 a.m.

My political ally J just sent along this note:

Excerpt from “Letter from Birmingham Jail”:

“In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.”

Let us honor Dr. King’s memory by staying the course.

(And the story I referred to here came from The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. )

Mallory in the Middle rated me excellent. How sweet is that? Thank you, Ms. Mallory. May you blog long and prosper. Now I’m supposed to cut and paste the little icon, which I don’t know how to do, and award some other bloggers.

I say… I need to think this one over for a little bit, cuz there are a lot of bloggers I am cuckoo-crazeee for.

WM

Do you want to meet the extremely sassy Melissa Lion, the inimitable Lelo in NoPo and me in person? I know you do. Lelo in NoPo, if you don’t read her blog, is this extremely awesome cook, gardener and apron-maker who also kicks major political ass in lobbying for gay rights. (Equals “equal rights.” Equal rights = good. Just in case any of you out there were wondering.) She is currently undergoing a reinvention and practicing her Spanish. And she, her girlfriend and cats are pretty cute.

And if you don’t know who Melissa is (fiction & freelance writer, blogger at large, cheerleader for North Portland who pretty much singlehandedly convinced us not to move to Beaverton damn this sentence is long), anyway. She’s great. Also her Steve and kid are pretty cute.

Go look at her blog — she’s just as adorable in person. Plus extremely funny and nice and is helping me with my remedial knitting.

(Also, those of you in North/Northeast Portland who knit? We’re hoping to get a knitting circle going at Jefferson High School. If you’re interested, send me an e-mail. The kids want to learn to knit! Who knew. And by the way, did you know there is no Home Ec. — now called Independent Living — or Shop offered at the school? Don’t you think you should e-mail the PPS school board and tell them we need these classes back again? E-mail the super, too.)

Enough school talk; more about us. If you’re in or near Portland, Oregon, here is your chance to have coffee, just like we bloggers are so fond of doing and hang out with us. We’re holding what is known in political circles as a “meet and greet,” this coming Saturday, Jan. 26th, from 10 a.m.-noon at Ladybug Organic Coffee Company, 8438 N. Lombard St.

Lelo is bringing a fresh stack of aprons to sell; Melissa will sell books and sign ’em, too; I have a case of kids’ books to give away FREE; we will drink coffee; we will answer all your questions, as in: Why do you think you’re so hot? Do you ever stop talking politics? Who does your hair? Is it too early to plant my garden? etc.

Kids, partners, parents and neighbors welcome, natch. Bring your checkbooks and/or cash — we like money. But if you don’t have any, stop by anyway. Looking forward to meeting y’all.

See you then!

WM

Have I ever run this reading list before? (If I did, I can’t find it on my site.) I love it. Friends shared it when Wacky Girl was a baby — I printed it out and for years carried it in our library bag for our weekly trips to story time.

wm

The following is a list of books for kids that we really enjoyed. (more…)

That’s all I have to say today.

We have a few rules around here…

1) The kids must stay the night with Wacky Grandma sometimes so I can breathe for a second.

2) “Take a breath” for me apparently means “get a drink downtown, then at Chapel Pub, then at Pause.”

3) Never blog when you’ve been drinking it’s just a bad idea.

4) Jefferson boys’ basketball BEAT Grant High tonight and WOOT! is all I can say to that because I think some of you know how I feel about the Generals. (I went to Madison, my mom went to Madison High GO SENATORS!, my aunts and uncles went to Madison BUT my dad went to Grant, my other aunties went to Grant and my dad’s brother, my late, great, beloved uncle, went to JEFFERSON and we live in the JEFFERSON COMMUNITY so GO DEMOS!

5) I’m a leetle bit drunk.

6) The kids are at Mom’s.

7) I need to go now.

HAPPY 3-DAY WEEKEND TO THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE IT! To those who do not — I’m sorry.

xxox

WM

“Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

— Gustave Flaubert, novelist (1821-1880)