I’m starting a new series of posts about Everyday Gifts from the Universe. I think we all need to smile and feel joy in our lives amid so much pain and chaos. Here’s my first entry: For the past two months I’ve been hearing the loud chirring of cicadas, coming from the many trees and…… Continue reading Everyday Gifts: Texas Cicada
Category: My Voice
Opinion essays. Any topic
They Are Us
Sadly this post is a repeat of my last, on January 27 of this year “How Many Deaths Will it Take?” Nothing has changed since then. The atrocities committed by ICE – Immigration and Customs Enforcement – continue to happen in many states. This past week our daughter and a friend helped with support for…… Continue reading They Are Us
How Many Deaths Will It Take?
What can I say that will be of any benefit? How do I put into words the sorrow, rage and helplessness I feel over the recent murders in Minnesota of Renne Good on January 7th and Alex Jeffery Pretti January 24th, by agents of ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a U.S. federal agency responsible for…… Continue reading How Many Deaths Will It Take?
Sweet Home Alabama, NOT
Fertilized egg – eight cells According to the Supreme Court of Alabama, as of February 16th Frozen Embryos are now “human children”. [You can read about the case here.] They have the same rights as a walking breathing talking 10-year-old child who, by the way, would be forced to carry a fetus to term, a…… Continue reading Sweet Home Alabama, NOT
Books and Other Dangerous Info
On the news recently we heard about Governor DeSantis support of Florida law HB1460 which effectively allows a “school district employee who holds a valid educational media specialist certificate” to decide which books and materials should be available for students. This whole scenario sounds very problematic and not easily definable. Does this mean one person…… Continue reading Books and Other Dangerous Info
Vote Kentucky
Kentucky voters, do you know what Issue 2 is? It is a proposal to amend the Constitution of our state by adding this statement “To protect human life, nothing in this constitution shall be construed to secure or protect a right to abortion or require the funding of abortion.” Since the US Supreme Court ruling…… Continue reading Vote Kentucky
Seeing is Believing or NOT
Three separate incidents of Seeing or NOT: #1. One day last week I stepped out of my house, my little dog on her leash, ready for our morning walk. Facing east (I take the same route every day) on Borderlands Drive I suddenly see a tall gray electric tower shaped like a skinny monster insect…… Continue reading Seeing is Believing or NOT
End Times
Bombed theater in Mariupol, Ukraine “END TIMES” I have heard these words three times in last two days, not counting the email links, Facebook posts and texts from well-meaning family and friends. And I do understand where this is coming from. Indeed, the world is in crisis. And many of us instinctively feel the aura…… Continue reading End Times
My Lifelong Love Affair With a Bug
My red-eyed Bug-Beau Cicadas in N. Kentucky It started in 1953 in Dayton, Kentucky, a small town on the Ohio River, the year I was born. Of course I don’t remember meeting him, since I was only two months old when he arrived. But I do recall the fossilized shell of one of his nymphs.…… Continue reading My Lifelong Love Affair With a Bug
Suffer Fools Lightly
I have not been able to write anything coherent for the last few days regarding what happened in our Capitol this week. My mind is a mess, my heart is heavy, I feel like a loved one has just died. I am raw. But something different emerged in me yesterday. Anger. Pure unadulterated visceral righteous…… Continue reading Suffer Fools Lightly
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