I’m writing this as a reminder to myself and others about what we as a people, as humanity, know, and what we should act upon. This post started out as a rant, but the rant will be in Part 2 as tomorrow’s post, and the action item is today’s post. The outbreak of measles in […]
50 Years Later: A New Nonviolent Movement for Voting Rights and Jobs
The 50th Anniversary gather and march in honor of The March on Washington for Jobs and Justice this weekend was inspiring and moving! I cried when I saw Emmett Till’s cousin standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with the parents of Trayvon Martin. My heart connected to Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain activist […]
Milestones in Living With Depression
From time to time I just like to check in and let those readers who also deal with major depression know how I’m doing. I also like to let regular old people know that having a chemical imbalance that impacts mood is not a lot different than having a chemical imbalance that impacts sugar or […]
Lemonade, Schmemonade: a Sucky Couple of Weeks
First, allow me to say that things could be much, much worse. Even with the minor, rather sucky, annoyances I will whine about, life is good. Theft Actually, I had a minor foreshadowing of the suckiness-to-come the day I arrived in Chicago for BlogHer in late June. That was the day I had my iPad […]
Summertime and Songs Flow Through My Mind
Generation Fabulous is both a group of women writers to whom I belong and the web magazine of the same name. The group founder is Chloe, then Anne and Sharon joined with her to create the magazine site. The topic for this month’s Gen Fab Blog Hop is Summer Songs. Summer songs are songs of the […]
Where Do You Get Your News When You Travel?
I was quite shocked when I checked in to the Sheraton Towers Chicago, the conference hotel for #BlogHer13, and was limited to Fox and CNN products for news coverage while there.