My very own blog!

Hello world! Welcome to one woperchild's random thoughts and reflections.

First issue to address, predictably, is what is a woperchild? Someone explained this term to me in college. A devoted feminist somewhere was trying to come up with a non-gendered noun to describe herself. Woman wasn't satisfactory on account of the "man" in it, suggesting that a woman was somehow a derivative of a man. (Very biblical, huh?) So she tried woperson. But that has "son" in it, also gendered male. So she went for woperchild. Perfectly non-gendered, and to me anyway, perfectly hilarious. The lengths some people will go.

So here I'm intending to post things I've written, reflections on things I'm reading, maybe an occasional recipe or picture. My husband and I are both pretty terrible at remembering to take pictures, so those might be rare. But, since I have been out of school for four years, I no longer have any Doctors of Philosophy being paid to read what I write, so I'm going to have to hope for the benevolence of friends and strangers to give my words an audience. Hopefully you're in the mood to waste some time.