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 […]
Cayo Santiago, Chaucer and Change
As part of a “blog hop” for the Generation Fabulous site/magazine I am writing on the topic of Transformative Travel. (How I dislike that phrase, blog hop, there has to be a better one.) Where do I start? I love travel. I grew up on a farm and Summer was not a time of vacations. […]
My Personal Who, What, When, Where, and Why of Blogging
I have written quite a few pieces and posts since I wrote the last post I published here, “I am Daddy’s Girl” as part of a blog hop for Father’s Day by the amazing ladies of Generation Fabulous. But I have not published them here. I did publish a piece on Medium. Writing as […]
I Am Daddy's Girl
Can you be a Daddy’s Girl by default? No one ever called me a daddy’s girl. I was not best friends with my mom either. Afterthought at best, and more accurately, an accident, that is what I was to my parents who in their 40s had an unplanned and unwanted fifth child. Me. A daughter […]
Lack of Support Sucks
I've written about this before, so call me a whiner if you want to, but I have to vent and parse my options. Building a business is difficult work. Writing content and building an online site as a business is hard work. Doing this without financial backing or personal support is exponentially more difficult. Working […]
Beatles, Basements, 45s, and a Dream about Row Boats
NaBloPoMo Has Me Writing About Crushes. WTF! The prompt for today has me thinking back to when I was, hmm, let me see… Revolver came out in what year? 1966. August 5th to be exact. So I was 9 years old. I’d listened to other Beatles albums and 45s at a fairly well off friend’s […]