This is starting to look like one of those competitive children’s road trip games: How many doors can you take pictures of that are actually usable? Now, don’t argue about it! If I have to stop this car, you’re going to wish I hadn’t! Oh,…

I’m currently reading PASSIONATE MINDS: WOMEN REWRITING THE WORLD by Claudia Roth Pierpont. The chapter I just finished is on Zora Neale Hurston, my imaginary anthropologist/author girlfriend. She was a bemusing, heroic, complicated woman who came to racial hatred second-hand until she was grown, having…

I know some vegans won’t eat honey because it’s an animal product, but I do. It’s a continuum, right? A sliding scale from NO ANIMAL PRODUCTS to ALL ANIMAL PRODUCTS. We’re all just trying to get through this vale of tears, so let’s not argue…