Edie Windsor
“I think the truth is if you really care about the quality of somebody’s life as much as you care about the quality of your own, you have it made.”
SOUTHERN PERSPECTIVES ON THE QUEER MOVEMENT: COMMITTED TO HOME
Collection of essays by South Carolina activists on the development of the LGBTQ movementDecember 5th, 201770 days to go.Blog Stats
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to pill or not to pill – that is the question
Today I count pills to fill two small brightly colored plastic containers that are compartmentalized by the days of the week with the hope they will continue to help me manage the health of my life and not stealthily contribute … Continue reading
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Edie Windsor (June 20, 1929 – September 12, 2017)
One of my favorite heroes was a woman named Edie Windsor who died yesterday at the age of 88. I never had an opportunity to meet her personally, but I know what my family and my community owe her. She … Continue reading
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Tagged edie windsor, marriage equality
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Breaking News: Interview with a Mushy Middler
The mushy middle – and I’m not talking Hostess Twinkies here. No, the “mushy middle” and the “soft center” are names given by politicians and pollsters to the highly sought after silent majority of the electorate who have never attended … Continue reading
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Tagged mushy middle, silent majority, soft center
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when I think of America, I think of…
Abraham Lincoln .. Louis Armstrong .. Hank Williams .. Emily Dickinson … Jackie Robinson .. Bob Dylan .. Eleanor Roosevelt .. Clarence Darrow .. Herman Melville … Howard Hawks Regards, Thom (Great Britain) All the Americans I know are wonderful … Continue reading
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Tagged America, charlottesville, virginia, white supremacists
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repeat after me, repeat after me
I have a confession to make: I hate the white supremacists, KKK, neo-nazis, fascists – whatever name the far right demonstrators are calling themselves today – as much as they hate me. So there. I need to go back to … Continue reading
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Tagged charlottesville, va
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locked and loaded
Our guns are locked and loaded, Full of fury and fire. Our hopes of peace outmoded By men with war desire. Who speaks for those enraged By words so full of hate? We must – we must become engaged Before … Continue reading
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Tagged Poetry
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Father Goose Nursery Rhymes
(funny-pictures.picphotos.net) Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme (circa 1725) Pretty good one, Mother Goose – your rhymes reflected your times. As for Father Goose, that rascal, what might he write in 2017? Little Jack Kelly Sat watching telly Eating his fish and … Continue reading
the mickey mouse club
Who’s the leader of the Club that’s made for you and me… M-I-C K- E- Y M-O-U-S-E I’ve made the mistake of watching the Senate as it goes through the histrionics of repealing the Affordable Care Act for … Continue reading
Father Goose Rhymes I Just Made Up
(Image theartofchildrenspicturebooks.blogspot.com.) There was in old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children she didn’t know what to do. She gave them some broth without any bread, Then whipped them all soundly and put them … Continue reading
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A Declaration of Independence – July, 1848
In July, 1848 seventy-two years after the original Declaration of Independence was ratified and signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania the first women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. A group of approximately 300 women and men gathered to … Continue reading
