Category Archives: Thoughts

For my breakfast study break, I would like to take this moment to be geekfantastic.  I am wearing my Star Wars Celebration IV track jacket. I love this jacket and generally it is worn for my own benefit, but today it’s for a first grader named Katie.  And in addition to that, I’m wearing it today  because it’s fantastic to be exactly who you are. 

This moment is for my fellow girls growing up who played more Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles than Barbies in the sandbox.

This moment is for my Star Trek friends who sojoured on in days before it became a movie with Chris Pine, Zachary Pinto, and Zoe Saldana. 

Does it make me a hipster to make a Venn Diagram?

…even if supposedly making that declaration might make me one (MFA Confidential – Jessie Morrison noted in her “Am I A Hipster?” post that denial is a sign that you are).

Honor Flight Guardian at the USMC (Iwo Jima) Memorial

As Ed read out the names of Veterans at Sunday service, he left out the rank but affixed to each name a branch of service and the war in which each had served. With every name that echoed within the grey concrete walls of the gothic-style cathedral of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, a Veteran was supposed to stand to be recognized.  Not all names had a Veteran present, but enough were there that America’s legacy of twentieth-century wars came to life:

World War II…

Korea…

On Saturday, I cut off eight-inches of hair – this time for Pantene’s Beautiful Lengths program which creates wigs for cancer patients from donated hair.  A couple of years ago I cut off about ten-inches for the Locks of Love program.  Both these lengths were the minimums for the individual programs.  It’s a memorable effort in that my “stylist” Jorge (of “Jorge’s” aka the place in Koreatown where I get my hair cut for $10) remembered me from the last time I donated my hair, but I also feel that it’s memorable because people don’t participate in programs like this enough.

There’s a part of me that is truly sympathetic to the plight of the Falcon Lake widow that is the focal point of this CNN story, but I was equally annoyed by the story as well.  It may have been personal – I lost a dear friend to the senseless violence going on in Mexico less than a year ago.  Bobby Salcedo was young and lived a life full of promise.  He will inspire people for years to come.  He was also an American.  In fact, he taught me a lot about what it means to be an American because at one time he was my Economics/Government teacher in high school.