I was 10 and 11 years old when my brother was wounded in Vietnam during the TET Offensive. The first time he was wounded, shot, I was 10. The second time he was wounded I was 11. I remember the Marine Corps car pulling in to the drive twice. It should have been a […]
Abandoned
Maybe I am feeling this way. Maybe I am feeling that most people who counted in his life abandoned my brother. In any case, I was flipping through pics on a free image site I use and found this one that I contributed to the site. I came up under a keyword search for the […]
Roger Lee Hill, August 4, 1948 – November 8, 2014
I just got back from the All Souls Procession. I checked messages on the Trolley on the way to the plaza at San Augustine Mercado. I hadn’t checked them since this morning. I got a text from my nephew saying his dad had died last night. Rest in Peace my Brother. Mom, Dad, Dave, Max, […]
The Books of Our Mothers' Mothers
One of the best things about living in the future, as I refer to the 21st Century, is access to information that has come before. And I in my feminist way, of course, am referring to the bits and pieces of daily life that get lost along the way to posterity, notoriety, and history… the […]
Black Friday Re-examined
There is a divide in the United States that will play out three Fridays from today, as it does every year, that typifies the chasm between Black Friday and Buy Nothing Day. Black versus Buy Nothing may not be the first divisive pairing you think of when you think of opposing groups in the U.S. […]
You Knew A Rant Was Coming!
Why are people so stupid? Why do people support actions and people that work against there own interests? They do you know. It is a Horatio Alger thing. Only smart people will get that reference. Well, I chalk it up (maybe I should say chuck it up) to evolution. Yep. Most people, even really educated […]