Are our cosmetics safe? Some people say no. Increasingly, experts are looking to the chemicals in make-up for the answers to cancer rates and other health problems. Personally, I don’t think there’s anything to worry about–especially if you don’t wear…
Dear Friends, I hope you can make it to the Word Pirates reading tomorrow night. Marcia and I have been working really hard to make it awesome. I will be reading an essay. Here are the details: Petaluma, Calif., May…
My book review of Marya Hornbacher’s Madness: A Bipolar Life is up at PopMatters. Excerpt: In 1998, Marya Hornbacher wrote Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, about an eating disorder so severe, she whittled herself down to 52 pounds…
After about 4 years, my spider plants are finally reproducing. The blossoms look like a cross between an orchid and a jasmine blossom.
I have the cover story in the Pacific Sun this week. I interviewed novelist Anne Lamott and playwrights Laurel Graver and Ann Brebner about the adaptation of Lamott’s novel, Hard Laughter, into a play. I really enjoyed writing this one–all…
Once I painted the guest room, I began the search for a comforter or duvet for the bed in there. I discovered that comforters are: a. Expensive b. Ugly The ones I liked were, without exception, over $230–a good deal…
Yesterday, Kyle was invited to speak at Google about remastering Knoppix. Here is a video of his speech. If you have used Knoppix long enough, you have probably eventually decided you would like to tweak it to add a setting…
Kyle will be speaking: at Google on Thursday, April 10 at Penguicon at the end of April at LinuxWorld next August. … and possibly others. I probably won’t go to any of these talk. For one thing, two of them…
I have a new cover story in the Pacific Sun. It’s about a group of moms starting an “EcoMom” movement–an attempt to get moms from all over to share tips on what they can do to help Global Warming. The…
Kyle was interviewed for an article published in Linux Insider. In it, Kyle talks about the next distribution of Ubuntu, which is coming out in the near future. After all, Kyle co-wrote Ubuntu Hacks. Famous husband!