Hi folks. Just a note to say that if you’re looking for me on Facebook, I am long gone. I left about two years ago. Why? I won’t bore you with the litany of reasons (many are too personal), just this glaringly upsetting one: Cambridge Analytica stole my FB info. … [Read more…]
Greetings! The following is a re-post of my blog published four years ago on May 26, 2017. It’s about fundamentalist Christianity. Why drag it out of the moth balls now? I think it may contribute to our understanding of one aspect of ongoing upheaval in the USA and other countries … [Read more…]
No matter what your career or life’s work, what are the values you aspire to live by? Do you have ways of reminding yourself of them? This post is something from my bulletin board that’s been there for about fifteen years. It reminds me of the kind of writer I … [Read more…]
In December, 1990, I was on the verge of divorce. Despite unimaginable stress at home, for a college class final project, I managed to write about the assigned topic: love. That collapsing marriage, my first one, was to a man I met in the fundamentalist cult, The Way, when I … [Read more…]
Our nation is on the brink of hitting a beyond-terrible milestone in this current pandemic: a half-million Americans dying from COVID-19. Today, to honor to those Americans killed by this hideous disease, our newly elected President Biden is holding a ceremony. As our nation pays our lost fellow Americans that … [Read more…]