Posted in Arts, Lynn Gazis-Sax on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This article, about the upcoming Angelina Jolie movie, Salt, says
The film stars Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Andre Braugher and was directed by Phillip Noyce (Clear and Present Danger, Dead Calm) . “Salt” is slated to hit theaters on July 23rd, 2010.
but the IMDB listing for the movie doesn’t actually list Andre Braugher [...]
Posted in Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax on November 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Sometime before I went to Hawaii, Hector asked me to take a look at, and share thoughts on, four posts at his blog. Today I’ll look just at one of them (I’m not sure whether I’ll eventually get to all four, but I may).
“If Thine Eye Offend Thee”: Reflections on this week’s reading, continued. [...]
Posted in Family, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Politics on November 5, 2009 | 8 Comments »
It’s now two days after voting day, and votes are still being counted for Proposition 71, the Washington state proposition to make domestic partnerships everything short of marriage. The vote still hasn’t been called, but at last report, the proposition’s passing by a narrow but widening margin, with about half the votes still to [...]
Posted in Arts, Lynn Gazis-Sax on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Amelia Earhart: This was the first movie Joel and I had seen in a theater in nearly a year. It was Joel’s choice, actually, which delighted me, that out of all the available movies, he’d pick one about a really cool and brave women. We turned out to be among the few watching it; most [...]
Posted in Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Lynn Gazis-Sax, tagged bipolar disorder on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
X-Ray Tech Schools has an article about 10 common myths about bipolar disorder. These include ones that are more likely to be held by the general public (e.g. mania is always happy) and ones that are more likely to be held by people with the illness (it’s OK to stop taking my meds if [...]
Posted in Community, Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Self on November 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
One of my Quaker meeting’s recurrent topics, brought up in Ministry and Oversight every couple of years or so, is a set of final plan documents that are filed with the meeting’s Recorder, to be referenced only if someone dies. We’re now discussing a revision of the document (but if you’ve already filed it, [...]
Posted in Culture, Lynn Gazis-Sax on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From one of my fellow Quaker Facebook friends: NPR has outtakes from Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound.
Posted in Community, Culture, Family, Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax on October 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I met Jim Burklo back around the time he had the idea for Urban Ministry of Palo Alto. He was the driving force in organizing the group, pulling together the churches that supplied the board of directors and the volunteers, and for a time was our second Urban Minister. I was on the [...]
Posted in Lynn Gazis-Sax, Sex on October 25, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Back in the dark ages, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was young and single, the world was still retrograde and unfeminist enough that older women would sometimes caution younger ones not to make the first move. Don’t ask a guy on a date; wait for him to ask you. Don’t call [...]
Posted in Lynn Gazis-Sax, Nature, Self on October 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Sometime later today, or maybe tomorrow, I plan to get my photos off my camera and onto Flickr, at which point I’ll post a link. Joel already has some videos from the trip up there. For now, though, here are the highlights.
Getting to Hilo: Due to a quirk of the fact that I’d [...]
Posted in Arts, Commerce, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Sex on October 24, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The Libertine: The one thing this movie surprised me by lacking was a sexy Johnny Depp. You’d think that Johnny Depp as a famous rake in the court of Charles II would be, oh, sensual, enticing. But in fact, by the time the movie got to the actual sex scenes, all I could think was [...]
Posted in Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m still in Hawaii, and don’t have too much time online for blogging, but I want to point you to a post by Sophia, We Bipolars, on bipolar disorder and her spiritual journey. (Sophia, I also promoted your post to Bipolar_Blogs on Twitter.)
Posted in Lynn Gazis-Sax, World on October 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Earlier, I promoted Hector’s comment on Madagascar to a post because, though my position is anti-coup on general principle (I think the African Union’s anti-coup policy is a good one), Hector’s been following the situation in Madagascar more than I have, and I think there’s value in reading takes of people more closely interested in [...]
Posted in Commerce, Health Care Proposals, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Science, World on October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
New Strategy For Mending Broken Hearts? Via my husband.
Human Cadaver Handling for Dummies.
Paying Attention to How People in Muslim Countries See the United States.
The Worst Words for the Economy.
The New England Journal of Medicine on Baucus’s Bill and the Long Road to Reform.
Pigs Defeating RFID-Enabled Feeding Systems.
Posted in Family, Gods, Humor, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Self, Sex on October 11, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This title is for my old grade school friend Sue, not because she’s either Quaker or inclined to engage in mate swapping, but just for the amusement value of having her see the words in the same sentence. And it also does connect with the post eventually. But I’ll start it out simply [...]
Posted in Lynn Gazis-Sax, Sex, War, World on October 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Reaction from Quakers, on blogs and Facebook, has been mixed to Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize win; while the Quakers I know tend to be Obama-friendly, and aren’t exactly jumping on the Glenn Beck bandwagon of indignation about this event, some are enthusiastic and others feel it’s premature. Here are a couple of Quaker blog [...]
Posted in Family, Gods, Law, Lynn Gazis-Sax on October 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Of all the restrictions laid on sexuality by the stricter Christian denominations, condemnation of divorce is perhaps the one with the strongest Biblical justification: at several points in the New Testament, this prohibition (either with or without a narrow exception) is attributed to Jesus himself. At the same time, there are times when staying [...]
Posted in Culture, Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Science, Sex, Woman on October 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Dream: I’m in a room filled with Greeks and Turks, and I’m to sing Greek songs and dance. I wear a long dress that I purchased at a Greek festival. But I’m handed a page that has, not lyrics in Greek and music, as I expected, but translations of lyrics in English, and [...]
Posted in Lynn Gazis-Sax, World on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hector, frequent commenter on my blog among other blogs, has been following the Madagascar situation more closely than I have, and has some strong opinions. I’m promoting this comment, not because I agree with all of it (the African Union policy of discouraging regime change by coups sounds reasonable to me and fair to [...]
Posted in Arts, Culture, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Nature on October 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The GP2 Project, that aims to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, now has a much improved web site, including video FAQs. Check it out.
Posted in Lynn Gazis-Sax, World on October 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In this post, which will still be a little sketchy, I want to get a little more into the background of the coup that took place in March, 2009 in Madagascar, along with a couple of other coups in Africa. I know that in other parts of the world where I have more background, [...]
Posted in Culture, Lynn Gazis-Sax on October 7, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I live right up the hill from Rick Warren’s megachurch, right in the heart of Orange County. As Southern California goes, Orange County is an unHollywood place to live. We’re famously conservative (though I’m not particularly so), while Hollywood, we’re always told, is liberal (though the people from Hollywood who go on to [...]
Posted in Lynn Gazis-Sax, World on October 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My husband informs me that today is a no hate blogging day, on which we’re to share our thoughts on the issues with no hate and divisiveness. I’m picking the easy, chicken way of making sure I don’t hate on anyone, by scrapping my previously planned topic of more blogging about Polanski, for events [...]
Posted in Family, Health Care, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Self on October 3, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I meant to have a light-hearted Friday dog blogging post up this morning, related to the news, a couple of months ago, that dogs are about as smart as toddlers. But life got in the way. I’ll get to dogs in a minute. First, an account of the emergency room visit.
Joel has [...]
Posted in Arts, Commerce, Gods, Health Care, Lynn Gazis-Sax on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Trust Africa blog, found via Africa Unchained. Africa Unchained also writes about Baobab Connections, a project that encourages youth from around the world to get together and talk about sustainable development.
Speaking of development, you, too, can become a microlender to a particular entrepreneur through Kiva.org (got this from Jana of pilgrimsteps, who’s also part [...]
