davonshire

Do you remember what it was that brought Hilary back into the race when she first started to falter? It was because she performed as a "woman." She showed her emotions, on whatever show she was on, she let the weariness of the road show, she let her voice break and she showed emotion. These are traits that we most often identify as feminine. So...
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I am finally at a stage in my life where Social Distortion works as music for me. I have heard the name a lot over the last decade + and every time I had gone to listen to them, there was something that just didn't resonate with me, I mean I liked it fine, but it just didn't speak to me. Now however, it is...
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So life spins its web around once more. I am full time in Ottawa now, trying for work, working on my PhD at the same time. Married, and enjoying just about everything except the winter. But, until I can retire somewhere warm, the winter will always be an issue no matter where in Canada I live. I am running out of places to blog comfortably,...
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Horray for March 14!

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Where do our virtues lie in terms of the post-modern sacred? Are we actors (activists) or responders to the new moral conditions and imperatives? How does Al Gore become the face of environmentalism and as that face, does he have the role of moral saint or moral hero? Is his environmentalism one of life-politics or emancipation politics or both?

These are very...
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The following is a post I had to do for my program but I thought I would through it out there for thoughts and other discussion =) apologies for the length, but since I don't post often, perhaps you will forgive me.

In 1982, I was twelve years old. I had been admitted to hospital in
order to have my tonsils taken out. I had...
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My brain hurts. Too much Charles Taylor, Walter Burkert and other social and religious theorists. They are making me forget about living in the real world... that can't be a good thing

Its been a crazy year. 2006 was crazy. That is the only way I can describe it. Pivotal, joyous, heartbreaking, confusing, lost, painful, and amazing. I finished my BA, moved to Ontario, lost my relationship, started my MA, started a part time job, re-met a new/old love, got engaged to said love, lost my part time job, and have continued to do well in my...
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so here I am, back among the living dead!

Going grey tomorrow, Sept 5th, you can find me at davonshire@gmail.com