Week 2! OMG it’s a habit!
Why is it that when you have time to write, you have to clean a closet? It’s ridiculous but something I face all the time. My brain KNOWS how to clean a closet, but to edit a short story? It’s not like I haven’t edited before. But my brain just thinks it’s unsafe. I wonder…
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New year, new promises…
It’s a new year and I’ve decided to blog on Tuesdays. I don’t really do social media much anymore, so I will try to save up my memes for this. Once a week will likely not give many memes, because the world moves so fast and our attention with it. Just today our president elect…
Read MoreBoobography and Writing Out Loud
I did it, I told a story in front of people. It was scary and fun. After, I was a little bit numb. I would do it again. And the script (which I rewrote and published on Medium under breast cancer and reconstruction): I always liked my boobs. When I didn’t have them, I stuffed…
Read MoreI had a dream I was robbed
And then Comey was fired. I tried to explore the feelings of violation, embarrassment, anger that came to me in my dream. Why, I wondered, do you feel embarrassed when you get robbed? Because you think you could have done something to prevent it all. After it happens to you, you find ways to make…
Read Moreresignation syndrome
Wow, this story really hit me hard: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/the-trauma-of-facing-deportation?mbid=nl_170328_Daily&CNDID=22603630&spMailingID=10709031&spUserID=MTMzMTc5ODM2MjIyS0&spJobID=1122248743&spReportId=MTEyMjI0ODc0MwS2?reload Can you imagine, just giving up? Laying down and … This is what happened in Serenity, on Miranda after having been dosed with PAX, but I don’t remember ever hearing about it happening in real life. Is suicide the result of this giving up? I find Americans…
Read MoreColum McCann and Edna O’Brien
Now on my second half of season ticket, I am really enjoying this author series! Last night was Colum McCann and Edna O’Brien. I haven’t ever read any of her stories that I can remember, but she seemed a contrary old feminist. Her books were banned and burned in the 1960’s and she hob knobbed…
Read MoreTying of the Devil – in progress
It will be increasingly difficult to carry out mass protests and civil disobedience. Repression will become steadily more overt and severe. Dissent will be equated with terrorism. We must use the space before it is shut. This is a race against time. The forces of despotism seek to keep us complacent and pacified with the…
Read MoreBreak from Politics
Hopefully, as a progressive, we have pushed enough to get the apricot and his crooked cronies under investigation. Time to turn my thoughts back to writing, even if I do have to go back to full-time activism again. My side eye is still on the apricot in chief. I am still a tweeter! I have been…
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