kuro5hin.org || FileGate – Cyberterrorist Republicans or Careless Dem Sysadmins?

You knew they were up to no good, didn’t you? Well, I did, at least.. kuro5hin.org || FileGate – Cyberterrorist Republicans or Careless Dem Sysadmins? A junior staff member of Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) was recently put on leave for improperly accessing Democratic memos from a shared Senate fileserver. In a statement on the matter, Continue reading kuro5hin.org || FileGate – Cyberterrorist Republicans or Careless Dem Sysadmins?

Things

I wandered around Mom’s apartment a lot today, looking over objects in every room that I remember from toddlerhood. I thought I should want something. My husband thought I should want something. I only chose a few of Dad’s old things to give to my son. I wanted nothing, not even the portrait she’d had Continue reading Things

We are our stories.

I don’t have a lot of knowledge of my mother’s family. Oh sure, the basics: her sisters (3, and she was the youngest, by 20 minutes) and my resultant uncles and cousins, her parents’ names (I had to give those for the death certificate – did you know that the funeral home issues that?). But Continue reading We are our stories.

definitions

Two weeks. It seems longer than that. Other peoples’ deaths warp time for the survivors, I think. I’d say “grief” instead of “death” but I have no idea if this is grief I feel. It’s nothing like I felt at my father’s death. I need a new definition. I need a word that means both Continue reading definitions