(I found this blog by way of Wired Women, a local women-focused email newsletter published by Monica Hubbard. To receive it, email monica.hubbard@charter.net.)

I can’t wait.

And someone is offering to train anyone from “all two legged walks of life” in Samurai sword wielding: Samurai Sword Training Group

“…because we inculcate in girls an absolutely impossible, unattainable ideal of physical and emotional perfection at such an early age, we set many young women up both for self-loathing and for hostility towards their female peers….[T]hose of us who care about young people need to be particularly attuned to the lack of resources that young girls have for safe and healthy opportunities to talk. Safe and healthy, by definition, means an uncompetitive environment, and it means providing them with understanding listeners whom these girls will not perceive as either judges or rivals.” (Link)

*If you didn’t see his post last month titled “Fat”, “Slut”, “Selfish”: a note on the three great fears, it’s also worth a read.

Aaron at the Pasadena bloggers’ picnic in May

Sugar

Stirring

Sealing

Picture taking

Post production photo shoot

Preserves