Livie

Reflections on Little Boys

My niece has an adorable little boy who just turned two years old a month ago and she is expecting another little bundle of baby boy joy in September. She's a good mother and puts lots of energy into...
Posted by Livie on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:56:00 PST

Using drugs as weapons 'unsafe'

I've done it again. There's something that annoys me so much about semi-educated people advocating things of which they have no or skewed understanding. I ran across a person who posts in Yahoo Answe...
Posted by Livie on Sun, 27 May 2007 05:50:00 PST

Of burning flags, health care and the Bill of Rights

Someone asked me why people in this country care more about flag burning and not health care? Why do Americans pay so little to issues that affect the lives of everyone, instead choosing to focus on ...
Posted by Livie on Wed, 09 May 2007 11:10:00 PST

Cars as a Metaphor for Small Towns?

A web forum dedicated to film where I spend many a happy evening had a recent discussion about the animated film Cars, after it won a Golden Globe for Best Animated Film. The Europeans of the gr...
Posted by Livie on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:36:00 PST

Ford Recalled...

(Cue nostalgia music)I found tears in my eyes when I heard about this death. My mom was a "hot-shot" Republican in the early 70s, active in local politics. She was invited to some fund raising thing i...
Posted by Livie on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:54:00 PST

Adam Sandler and the IMDB War

It was bound to happen. I frequent the Internet Movie Database and sometimes post comments on the message board when something moves me to respond. The other day, I wandered onto the Adam Sandler boar...
Posted by Livie on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:02:00 PST

upon seduction *

upon seduction * for dustin with little provocation or invitation,you arrive within my sphereflashing unspoken epics of sirenic odes.pulling, drawing all who pass nearbyinto your whirling vortex o...
Posted by Livie on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:22:00 PST

Am I Normal????

Are You Normal? Your Normalcy Quotient is: 43 out of 100. Your quiz results make you a Marvelous MaverickGiddy-up partner. You're a maverick and don't know what the definition of normal is. That's a-o...
Posted by Livie on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:07:00 PST

Sunshine, Child of My Life

My mother died in August, just three weeks before my birthday. Two days prior to my birthday, my friend gave birth to her last daughter. She knew it was the last because she'd had them both Caesarian....
Posted by Livie on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:17:00 PST

Alanis Morissette, the Kitten & my friend Ralph

I met my friend Ralph online on IRC, playing in a trivia channel.  We began to have long discussions and shared a love of many things -- trivia, music, books, movies -- all the general pop cultur...
Posted by Livie on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:24:00 PST