Will the Real America Please Stand Up? Birther-in-Chief is Thieving Again
Answering the questions: What is a “birth story” and why is it significant? Who gets to tell that tale (and why does it matter who tells it)? Why has
“Yes… but” and the road to hell
Why all of a sudden TRump supporters are in disbelief that he could say something brazenly cruel and irreverent? Isn’t that why they voted for
Vision 2022
Ever notice how every time a horrible or seemingly unexpected thing occurs, someone finds some sci-fi book* or episode of The Simpsons** that
The Weaponization of a White Woman’s Social Media Feed
Update August 2020: This article just went up. Again, nowhere is the perpetrator clearly stated to be black-- the word "looters" is assumed to mean
I Mama
#MyOdeToGeorgeFloyd My holy fucking mama just got screamed out of me Dragged across pavement, grit in the skin Lit on fire, Enraged, enlarged,
Free Speech. Free Rant. American Ashes
Response to Forbes article https://bit.ly/3em9NuX .... because free speech is only for him, apparently. And facts don't matter, even if lives are
Mercy mercy me
Why do you continue To say that the money is what matters? To tout it as the stuff of life. Why do you perpetuate this fakery, born of parlor
Coping: Part II in the Working Toward Transformation series
Last post was supposed to be about forgiveness, but wound up as an angry, toxic diatribe. I'll guess I'll call that Part I. I'm okay with this,
Rose Garden Ruse
I've been furious. I've been feeling so enraged I make memes like this: I've been arguing, repeating myself, and get outraged over and over. I
Why ask?
Truly great questions are like time-release peace bombs that detonate in real life. - W. Leitzen
The death of dignity: ain’t that a shame
I hate to make such a bold statement, lest in come true, but I had to find a way to express what I think could be going on in the political leadership
Testimony 2019
This was originally written as testimony to RI state legislature to help pass the Reproductive Health Care Act in RI in 2019l codifying RI's citizens
to women who’ve made themselves a holy mess of wonderfulness
This is a shout out to all women, like me, who have experienced trauma and made themselves a holy mess of wonderfulness. This is a shout out to the
Dart Dart Dart
Dart. Dart. Dart. Rest. Dart. Dart. Dart. Finger, thumb moving. Eyes darting. Soul wondering. Entertainment! A Life! Exciting!
Praying is the last thing you should do
Now, don't get all hating on me for this. I believe in the power of prayer. Because of prayer, perhaps some important people in my life are alive.
I have a friend
I have a friend. She used to smoke Camel unfiltered. The first time I was to meet her, was an evening at a dusty Irish pub in Matunuck, RI. She
The worm
Do you remember that story* about the two dimensional world, and what happens when a sphere goes through it? First the sphere looks like a dot, then
This isn’t allowed anymore
If I hear one more person refer to "the media" as a monolith, I'm going to... to.... Really, we know better than this, don't we? There is no
Shifting
what if this were true?
Modern myths
I often wonder about the grand mythic strokes being written across America these last few years. They are big. They are bold. They are terrible. And
Stealing Jesus
Christianity is being used. And I don’t mean by typical, hypocritical lip service. I mean, Christians know if anyone truly accepts Christ, they are
I am my dogs
A generation ago, I had a dream, and I told my mentor about it. Black dogs are barking at me. It is depression. It looks like this (I showed him a
I’m mourning today
I'm mourning today To the tune of Mitch McConnell. No matter how sincere, No matter how intelligent, No matter how dispassionate, No matter
on humor and malice
humor is the tendency of experiences or expression to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the
On Cults and Cultural Healing
How does a nation's culture heal on a mass level when so many members are likely: Afraid (because they’ve seen hatred and bullying of the "other" by
Immigration is the American Way…
....but because of atrocious nature of the family separations, many people have conceded even this point. None of what is going on is normal. None
Spiritual Adulting: Part 1. I’m an American bigot. Ugh.
This morning I looked in the spiritual mirror and realized I was a bigot. Not a blowhard, Nazi sort of racist, but a deep, dark hidden kind of one.
The Truth Beat – The Authoritarian Directive Broken Down
The other day I looked down to glance at a news paragraph on my phone. It said something like, "there are increasing ethical and criminal breaches at
The best questions to ask
Years ago, I learned a really good life hack. It was a simple way to immediately change the way your brain is thinking for the better. Anthony Robbins
Sinking Gifts. Rising Queen
I have been prone to depression, as have many of the women in my family. As are, no doubt, many others who are reading this. I have also been prone