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  1. In Response To: "Dr. Laura, the N-Word, Gays, Lesbians, Autism: Bloggers on Everything She's Wrong About" by Liz Henry

    8/22/10 4:50pm by KWest
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    "So, I just listened to the whole Jade/”Dr.” Laura broadcast because I wanted to hear the actual conversation and not simply react to reactions. ...O...M...G... ... Here's the deal: if your partner doesn't at least stand by you when you're dehumanized, there's a major relationship problem..."  Read more >

  2. Smart Kid Bad Rap: The Impact of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy on an Undergraduate Student

    8/7/10 6:25pm by KWest
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    I totally screwed up in college. I completed my freshman year with a GPA of 1.79. Six years later, I graduated with a 2.6, somewhere between a C+ and a B- overall, depending on who’s looking.  Read more >

  3. The Real Stink on Residential Bathroom Ventilation Codes

    8/2/10 3:58pm by KWest
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    Let’s face it:  nobody wants the wrong kind of funk at a dinner party.  However, many don’t realize just how fatal the wrong kind of funk can actually be.  I am now going to share with you a personal experience I recently had in my bathroom.  Ohhh yes, I just said that.  No worries, though, lovelies.  I’m not talking about your run-of-the-mill Austin Powers kind of bathroom humor.  What I’m talking about involves the completely-not-to-code ventilation situation in many average bathrooms.   Read more >

  4. 6-13-09 ...A Third Word on Lesbian Hair

    6/14/09 11:30am by KWest
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    I have decided that there is a serious need to teach pluralism in beauty and fashion.  I’m not talking about feminizing “androgyny,” and I’m not talking about heaving a person across gender lines to the extent that his/her full on gender expression/identity is imposed upon, either.  I’m talking about serious, honest to God pluralism.  The kind that opens our eyes to see more than One, OR the O  Read more >

  5. 6-5-09 (re-post) Another Word on Lesbian Hair

    6/13/09 7:47pm by KWest
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    Okay... Got the hairs cut today.  Spent $61.75, $20 of which was on "product," and tried a new stylist ta boot.  I have to say,  I have the sinking feeling that I'm going to have to go in with the clippers and "fix" it myself already.  Although, I'll also say that I usually have that feeling before ever leaving the chair, so this stylist has at least brought me a step further than most. Also to her credit was the following comment she made as she assessed the damage done by Roger without my input:  Read more >

  6. Kaffee KWest

    5/30/09 3:02pm by KWest
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    Saturday, May 30, 2009 Kaffee KWest - In the Beginning,There was Colombian Narino Supremo from http://kaffeekwest.blogspot.com/    Read more >

  7. A Word on Lesbian Hair...

    5/29/09 6:44pm by KWest
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    The other day I was filling out yet another FaceBook questionnaire when I ran across the following question: "15. Do you like your hair?" This inspired me to begin a whole blog, because the topic is actually quite broad when asked of a lesbian who is not of the L Word variety.  Heck, for all I know, it’s a broad topic when it is asked of an L Word variety lesbian.  But I’m not one, and I’ve noticed an extreme deficiency among social commentaries from my end of the block when regarding lesbian hair.  Read more >

Kate West

Full Name
Kate West
Member Since
May 2009
About Me: 

Kate West is a career-in-transition, mid-life crisis survivor who has returned to school.  A beginning blogger, she has been a performing artist and theatre manager, a writer, a high-end kitchen & bath designer, a professional coffee-schlepper, and holds a real estate sales license which she has never actually used...but she can make a mean cappuccino.

Her educational background includes a grad level marine mammology lab with Cornell University at age 13, sketch comedy writing with The Second City, a B.S. (ahem )in Theatre Arts Management from Ithaca College, course work in Psychology and Writing at UCLA, with yet more course work in Psychology at Smith.  Her interests in the pursuit of graduate education include still more psychology and (always) writing.  Other interests include what she often refers to as Google University, where she spends inordinate amounts of time looking up random stuff for fun. 

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