wearing this bonnet is a drag
I want to discuss insight from a recent conversation I had with someone who didn’t like ‘male gender’ pronouns in writing. This person doesn’t like wording like ‘he said, ‘ and want to change all wording to be ‘they said’ or ‘ a transgender individual said.’ Continue reading “viewpoints are relative” »
life is worth the risk
Another dream recently came my way: I was traveling in Czechoslovakia, and discovered my bag wasn’t what I thought it was. Continue reading “travel without” »
alcohol takes us away
I used the excuse of a drunk parent to steal a car and drive around at fourteen years of age. I don’t remember where my father and grandmother were when we ran out of cat food on Thanksgiving night, but I used my mother’s drunkenness as an excuse. Continue reading “using drunk as an excuse” »
kids love reading
“Think globally, and act locally” is my favorite slogan to help people. Bad things happen in our world. The current opioid crisis epidemic is a current major tragedy in my region, and kids get hit hard. Continue reading “act locally” »
risk or fun?
Another dream came my way last night: I was traveling in Czechoslovakia and discovered that my bag wasn’t what I thought it was. Continue reading “travel without” »
gnarly WWI French trenches hospital
My family once had real people, who have since become ghosts. Generations of ‘people of substance,’ as my mother would say. King alcohol was another substance besides their individual characters, but four generations had amazing stories before I came into the picture. Continue reading “people of character” »
we all have tales
“Take care and watch yourselves closely so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life, make them known to your children and your children’s children.” Moses Continue reading “legacy” »
accept the motion
Dream of struggling in three rivers: Continue reading “ugly necessity” »
Lindy looks like this
I’m feeling something because it’s a happy new year 2018 and I visited my childhood friend, Lindy who was transferred to a Sunnyvale, California senior facility four months ago. She’s been a ward of California for over fifty years, diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. Continue reading “Lindy in Sunnyvale” »
