If nice people don’t change the world, who does? What is the opposite of nice? Are the only people who can change the world jerks? (h/t to Joel Runyon at Blog of Impossible Things for bringing the topic of Nice to my mind this week!)

You are shaking the dice in your hand. You are playing the game. You’re in it now.

That’s pretty much how life goes when we are pushing the boundaries. We have options.

What stops us from exercising these options is their consequences.

The funny thing about holiday traditions is that in the end they are rarely about things. Also, Wild Turkey may be good enough for Hunter S. Thompson, but it is a bourbon that I recently characterized as an “esophageal shanking”.

I posted my 2011 Goals in January and lots of you were like “Elisa, that’s a pretty lofty list, are you sure you wanna go all crazy sauce on life like that?”

And I was all “You don’t know me, I do what I want. Whateva whateva, I’ll crush this list!”

Well…I lied.

Ish.

Since my little announcement last week I’ve gotten a LOT of congratulations.

You are all amazing. I wanna cyber-squidge your cheeks and bear hug you for your kindness.

I’ve also gotten a LOT of questions. On a lot of different topics. Been trying to field them on a case-by-case basis, but many of the same ones keep popping up.

Seemed like the best way to answer them all is to just do a big FAQ list and ease some of your minds.

Basically, as a woman who calls herself a feminist, Dusti should have been ashamed that she would not want to nurture another human being.

I’m sorry.

Did I miss the Feminist Camp workshop where the only way to be a feminist was to nurture and mother and love?