On my mind lately:
Pernicious gender roles and the natural disadvantages of being a woman, thanks to this (fascinating) book, Delusions of Gender, by Cordelia Fine. Rachel S. recommended to me, and I’m glad she did. It’s making me want to fight The System. And to have seven girl children who all grow up to be theoretical physicists and aerospace engineers.
How nice it is to have just one dog for a while. (Rainer got adopted!) Pyrrha might miss him, but she also might really love being an only child.
Thomas Jefferson: Not a total tool. Pretty useful to the founding of this country and all. And just as complex as everyone else is; it’s silly to think of Founding Fathers as these changeless demigods. (Also reading American Sphinx, by Joseph J. Ellis, which is good, albeit his incorrect, vociferous assertion that the whole Sally Hemings thing never happened.)
Inescapable damp air.
What if I had been good at math?
Does anyone take the GOP seriously anymore?
Semi-related: This quote that Guion shared with me from Bishop John Shelby Spong:
The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.
Little Stories 
CLARIFICATION: Spong is still mostly a tool. Nailed it with this one though.
Just wait… I’ll have a little girl and she’ll rebel against me as a teenager to be “girly” and go into dance or music. And I will sigh quietly and put away all of my science books and let her do her thing even if I don’t get it at ALL. Heehee. Also, love the quote. Most of the immature children are in that end too.