Mary Akers

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Ten Things You May Not Know About Me

    I’ve been resisting this meme for several reasons, mostly because I can’t think of ten interesting things about myself that I want to share. But thanks to my friend Cliff, who tagged me, I’ll try: 1. I am always hungry. I love food. It’s one of my great pleasures. I will eat virtually anything… so…

  • Drought, flood, drought, flood

    I sent work out during all of 2005 and got nothing in return for my efforts. No love, no ink, no shred of interest, and rejection after rejection after rejection. A year’s worth of it. Hard to imagine going a year with next to nothing in the way of positive strokes, but it’s the writer’s…

  • Green-glowing pigs

    Am I the only one that finds this horrible?? Glowing, green pigs

  • Generous Crows?

    Clickety EVEN ANIMALS ARE CELEBRATING THE SEASON OF SHARING BREWSTER, NY — (December 22, 2005) — Why would a full-grown raven, living in a flight cage at Green Chimneys’ Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, voluntarily feed his own food ration to a group of wild black vultures through the wires of his enclosure? That’s the question perplexing…

  • Happy New Year!

    I’m looking forward to 2006, actually. I have this gut feeling that’s it’s going to be a good year. Of course, that could be the crazy optimism that I feel after having finally completed my novel. It’s a sort of insanity, this euphoria at being done. I liken it to the new mother who holds…

  • Intelligent Design

    Judge in Pennsylvania rules that biology teachers need not instruct students in “intelligent design.” Here.

  • Coral reef ecosystems…

    …are declining in U.S. waters.

  • NOW salutes Rosa Parks

    A lovely (brief) tribute can be read here.

  • Please help stop this.

    Dogs used as shark bait. A petition link can be found here. Click on “signez la petition en ligne” and you will be given an English option. Thank you.

  • Mommy Mania

    Here is an excerpt from an article titled Mommy Madness(full piece here) which is itself excerpted from her book Perfect Madness about mothers driving themselves crazy trying to be supermoms: “Women today mother in the excessive, control-freakish way that they do in part because they are psychologically conditioned to do so. But they also do…

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