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  My thanks to sapromo.com for this image.   Following up on last month’s Talking About Race post, we’ll look at two rather different ways to talk about racism: as a problem within an individual and as a problem within the larger society. Who here is racist? Raise your hand. No one admits to being… more »
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On this night of the 2018 election, with results trickling in, I’m focused on finding gratitude for the 2016 election. Hang in there; I’m making lemonade.     So much has changed for me in the past two years.  Perhaps you can identify. I learned the extent to which racism still exists in this country… more »
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On November 4 it’ll be time to turn our clocks again — Jet lag without the hassle of airplane security and cramped seats. I can hardly wait. Those of you who have followed me for awhile know I have done bi-annual rants against changing our clocks (in either direction; it matters little) in the hope… more »
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Today I’m writing an overtly political post, and one that I’m sure you’ll find uncomfortable to read — though not nearly as uncomfortable as it must have been for the young woman experiencing it. I hope you’ll be uncomfortable. Better yet, I hope that discomfort will move you, as it did me.  This is a… more »
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Do you remember this photo?  Can you place it in time and space?  (location and era?)   Gold medalist Tommie Smith (center) and bronze medalist John Carlos (right) showing the raised fist on the podium after the 200 m race at the 1968 Summer Olympics; both wear Olympic Project for Human Rights badges. Peter Norman (silver medalist, left) from Australia also wears an OPHR badge in solidarity with… more »
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Today, October 10, marks our 25th anniversary. Not our wedding anniversary, that hits 19 today, and who celebrates 19?  Not us. But 25 years ago (yes, we chose our wedding date so we could keep celebrating the same date we’d been celebrating) Woody and I met face-to-face for the first time.  I remember it clearly.… more »
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Those of you who follow me on Facebook know I’ve been fostering Monarch caterpillars this summer. Yes, I came to it late in the season and that’s not a metaphor.  I collected each caterpillar from my milkweed and placed it in a large mason jar, using cheesecloth across the top to allow the air to… more »
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Let’s continue with our lesson on the US Constitution. (Here’s last week’s We the People post in case you missed it. ) (Yes, I’m on my bi-annual Grandma Janet road tour and this is just easier. Bear with me, please). We have the twenty-seven Amendments.  Twenty-five changes, if you don’t count the prohibition ones! On… more »
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Welcome to my post celebrating US Constitution Day, officially September 17, the date the document was signed in 1787.   Did you even know we had a Constitution Day?  I didn’t.  But we do, so let’s take a look at it; it’s pretty fundamental to our lives, believe it or not. First, think for a… more »
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