Geesh, I hate writing like this, talking like this, I sound like a freaking old lady fixated on her medication, aches and pains. But this is where I’ve been in my head for the past 10 days. Like Betty White says for AARP, I just need to “Get over it!” And, it is important that […]
Little Veiled Woman From Madinah (Sung to a Beach Boys Tune)
I hope there are lots of news reports and posts about women who drove in Saudi Arabia today. TIME’s coverage is the only professional journalist coverage I’ve found so far. This is significant in so many ways. Women are the majority in every culture unless other cultural practices such as selective abortion, infanticide (in […]
Drive Sisters Drive!
It is well into Friday June 17th in Saudi Arabia as I write this and women there are demonstrating their ability and right to drive. That is right. Drive. A car. Women’s voting rights are restricted there. Similarly it is forbidden for women to drive. They’ve been arrested. Watch the You Tube video for […]
Boortz Calls for Violence on the Same Day Giffords Leaves Hospital and Arivaca Family Murder Trial Continues
I don’t do a lot of cross-posting on my blogs, but today I have to. I have tried to write an entry several times today. Several situations are swirling around in my brain space, and they all involve violence and public complicity in that violence. Ed Schultz gets pulled from the air for a week […]
When the Light Fades Before Sunset
Day 14 in nablopomo blogging month, day 5 after septoplasty surgery. The headache I’ve had for several days is lessening but my heart is heavy. People come and go in every person’s life, but no where is this more evident than in a college town. Tucson is a military town, a tourist town, and a […]
How Much Blog Bling is Too Much
I’m trying to learn about this social blog thing. I’m not very social. I love people. I love a good joke. I have blogs I read because I enjoy the blog author’s perspective. I have been a political and social justice blogger for years. I have floated at the edge of blogging networks made up […]