From the Archive
Remarks for the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women
*Given by HRC on 9/5/1995. It has been so long since I saw this and read it, I thought I'd check it out once again, and share it with y'all. Noting that it's the 4th - only 4, FFS - such conference even while women make up half the world's population and give birth to...
From the Archives: Forgiveness
*I am posting this again because I need to remind myself to practice forgiveness, of myself and others, every single day. I am also posting it again because this morning, as I write this, I am once more overwhelmed with the loss of so many people I have loved - but...
We Can Be Both
We live in paradox, all of us, which I define in this instance as being both human and divine. Perhaps what I mean is better put this way: we humans are seriously flawed and messed up, petty, mean, and unkind and yet, we’re also seriously beautiful, capable of so much...
From the Archives: Murderous
*I started this - meant to be a murder mystery - in 2010-ish. Maybe I'll get back to it. Thanks for being here, and for reading! 1985 The girl – a young woman actually – had always imagined it might happen, but never really thought it would. She had a vivid...
From the Archive: My Turn ~ Abortion Part 2
* from 2012 - and, again, still feel and think the same way. thanks again for being here, and for reading... I know there are those who say abortion is ‘unnatural’. I say that is nonsense. Nature is humanity using our natural human brains to find solutions to our...
From the Archive: My Turn ~ Abortion Part 1
*I wrote this in 2012, and my opinion has not changed one iota, not one. thanks for being here, and for reading... As per usual the right and left are taking up positions on abortion rights; this time the right says it’s about funding and saving African American...
Love, Hate
My mother liked children who were well-behaved and intelligent. I was one of those, but not the other. Of course, my mother’s idea of well-behaved children was both old-fashioned (children are meant to be seen, and not heard) and deeply sexist: boys could be just...
From the Archives: The History Teacher Pt. 2
*begun yesterday - after actually beginning in 2011!! a fiction piece, one of many both non-f and fiction on the subject of teachers I have known and not so known, yet imagined. thanks for being here, and for reading. There was one woman, one girl, he really liked....
From the Archives: The History Teacher
*This piece in two parts is itself part of a series of short fiction and non-fiction sketches about teachers, who loomed large in my life growing up for a variety of reasons, including having a teacher-mom. And in case you're wondering, I do not recommend having your...