I never noticed how much I leaned on my elbows until they were covered with massage oil. That said, I still think a midday massage was a go...

Books we've read in my feminist book club in approximate descending order of how much I liked them: My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki  ...

I'm in a feminist book club. It's amazing and I recommend it. Next month, it's my turn to suggest books for us to choose from....

I decided that if I'm going to start writing here again, and maybe I am, I should update what's in the blogroll for the first time i...

There have never been a lot of people reading CMC, and when I go nearly a year without posting, there are fewer. But I am not quite ready t...

Dear well-meaning and generally kind and supportive straight coworkers, I am writing this once so I don't explode, because I know you ...

Hello, friends. It's been waaaaay too long. Maybe some of you are still using RSS feeds, and will see this. I've been feeling pull...

Sorry it's been so long again, folks. Been thinking about you, and this space, lots. We should talk about what we're going to do aro...

This evening, I'm keeping a friend company in the hospital. He's fine. But I just overheard a healthcare professional saying t...

Just got the following email from my Rock Star Friend: Remember the cute dating blogger that I saw in an elevator many many years ago and...

Today on Facebook, a friend of mine posted, "Every religion thinks it's the one true correct religion. Assuming there is one, they ...

Sorry I keep talking about the weather. This winter is KILLING me; it's led to car issues and house issues and travel issues and a wee...

This morning I brought RI to work because otherwise, he'd have had to walk, and it was -11° outside, and that is unreasonable. But it st...

Things I got used to in 8 years of city life that continue to disappoint me after SO MANY years not in the city: restaurants that are open o...

Woman leaving a building ahead of me yesterday, brightly: Oh, look! It's snowing! We needed it, really.

To discuss, with as much or as little anonymity as you choose: What is your gender? An essay on that topic was assigned someone I know as...

So it's been more than a month. Sorry. Also, although I haven't had a lot of Big Stories or even Deep Thoughts I wanted to share h...

"If you're not at the table, you're on the menu." — A friend of mine in her role as a panelist at a social justice forum y...

WARNING: This post is inappropriate for younger readers. Younger readers, if you read past this point, you may find things you do not want t...

We haven't talked a lot about the advantages of living in a small city , over the other kinds of places I've lived in: small towns ...

This may feel duplicative; it's for sure related to my last post. But here's the thing about these gratitude posts: Increasingly, pu...

"It's not fair," we whine, and if we have a certain kind of parent, they reply, "life isn't fair." And they...

I've already written the last two posts of the month, and have decided to give up on this particular month of gratitude at midnight, so ...

The day before Thanksgiving, we hand a biggish snowstorm up here — big enough that my boss sent me home at noon. I lost electricity for a ...

Last night, the local one-screen theater showed Stop Making Sense ,  a thirty-year-old concert movie I went to with a bunch of younger-than-...

The beauty of life on the internet is that there are nearly limitless jokes at one's disposal, including ones that are silly, funny, ino...

So, long-time readers (it's been more than seven years now, if you can believe it) will recall that I started this blog largely to keep ...

Last Sunday, RI and I met April and her family for a trip to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art . I guess this is a short post; ju...

So about that fundraiser last Saturday. It was for Green Mountain Crossroads , which is an organization I love and support, and which orga...

This weekend, I had a little fundraiser at my house for a cause that's important to me. You'll hear more about that (and about some ...

Today's guest post is from my friend Calvin , who usually blogs in poetry and who tried (as I did) to use a bunch of hovertext in this p...

Today's guest post is by my friend Mike, who is very good to have around in an emergency, whether grammatical or medical. Also, if you...

Yesterday marked 18 months since RI and I first started dating. Our anniversary gift to you: pronouns. He, him, his. I haven't used ...

This morning I fell down some slick stairs with a bunch of things and left my wallet and my book for book club at RI's house and my foot...

Someone shared a thing on the internet today that said "REDHEADS are God's way of giving the world ROSES." My reaction to th...

Do you even KNOW that it's possible to make really delicious brownies from scratch quickly and in the microwave and in a coffee mug? S...

Today's guest post is by my college roommate, April, who's way better at walking than a two-year-old. One of the sad truths that I...

Today was not a great day. It wasn't a horrible day, nothing went catastrophically wrong, no one was hurt. But there were obstacles an...

This is a selfish, selfish, selfish one. I do understand the reason for the season, as it were, and I do honor veterans, for reasons both ...

Today's guest post is from my good friend and occasional commenter Heidi. There's more from Heidi on Twitter: @queerminister . Anyo...

Sometimes, Netflix suggests something to me that seems racist, horribly violent in the ways I dislike, or that I will otherwise obviously ha...

A while back, someone I know who is definitely on the line between "acquaintance" and "friend" said she was starting a f...

And already we're playing catch-up. A lot of catch-up. Last night, a friend asked about hidden talents: "What are your hidden ta...