Thanks to all of you who read/subscribe to this blog. It means a lot to me. I feel bad that I haven’t posted regularly (or hardly at all) in the past year or so. In this post I will take a crack at explaining why. Warning: I’m going to fail miserably so please be patient.Continue reading “Why Posts Are So Few and Far Between”
Category Archives: MISCELLANY
Here’s How Close You Are to Being Mentally Ill
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”Mental Illness Hell”]123rf.com[/featured-image] Mental illness is still stigmatized in this country, along with taking the medications that often treat it. The main reason it is stigmatized is that most people just don’t understand it. If that’s you, I think I’ve come up with a way of explaining it that may finallyContinue reading “Here’s How Close You Are to Being Mentally Ill”
The Attitude I Choose In These Times
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”choose the right path”]123rf.com[/featured-image] We are living in difficult times. It seems every day something happens to shock us, numb us, horrify us, or cause us to question what in the hell is happening to the world. Because of the media (both mainstream and social) we are discovering, to our horror,Continue reading “The Attitude I Choose In These Times”
Your Primal Fear
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”fear”]123rf.com[/featured-image] Want proof that most people live with a deep fear they are constantly trying to disguise? All you have to do is teach a college philosophy class and watch what happens as one person after another finds their most basic beliefs threatened. See how people sputter, how their ears andContinue reading “Your Primal Fear”
My Eulogy
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”dead rose – eulogy”]123rf.com[/featured-image] If you don’t know that a lot of famous people have been dying lately, you’re living under a rock. With all these people dying, I’ve been reading a lot of tweets and posts in memoriam. It got me to thinking about what I want to be said aboutContinue reading “My Eulogy”
Things I’m For
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”] I’m for equality, for justice for all, for caring about other people above asserting our own rights, for defending what’s good for most people rather than for 1% of us, for an end to bigotry, for kindness, for compassion, for courage, for an absolute commitment to, and unwillingness to shirk from,Continue reading “Things I’m For”
Feeling Judged
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”my proof of disability”] Yesterday I went to the Secretary of State’s office and picked up a handicapped parking placard. It’s incredible how difficult the process can be. Not in terms of complexity, just that both times I have had to get one of these I’ve had to endure lectures fromContinue reading “Feeling Judged”
My Rant Fulla Everything!
[featured-image size=”custom_post” link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] From my Facebook account, posted there today: What the heck, I’m deleting my account soon anyway, I might as well really say what’s on my mind. I’m struggling lately with the loose way we’re using language and how it has us in such a mess. 1. Not everything is beautiful.Continue reading “My Rant Fulla Everything!”
Who Are the Real Feminists?
I read an article this morning called Don’t Call Beyonce’s Sexual Empowerment Feminism. I’d recommend you read the article, but the gist of it is that Beyonce (and, by extension, all female artists who are using sex to sell records) is not a feminist, regardless of her claims to the contrary. I agree with theContinue reading “Who Are the Real Feminists?”
Gays Bullying America: Our epidemic of anti-straight discrimination
Check out this audio clip of Michele Bachmann talking about how gays are bullying America: Wow. How poignant. I didn’t realize how many gays have targeted their straight classmates in schools and picked on them mercilessly. I guess I hadn’t heard about gangs of gays tying straight people to fences, beating them within an inchContinue reading “Gays Bullying America: Our epidemic of anti-straight discrimination”
Temp Arbor 