First posted October 6, 2016. How about those Williams’ sisters! And, how about the women at the Olympics bringing home the medals!? As we look around us, the women of the planet seem to be breathing new blood into the planet as a whole and for women in particular. We women are not only coming in first within our own ranks, we are breaking the records set by men. And, how often do we hear these women say that they are not so focused on “beating” the others, they are focused o

First posted September 29, 2016. Ok. Let’s talk about racism since it is such a hot topic now thanks to so many including Hillary and Trump. I’m glad that the issue is coming up in the public conversation because it, like sexism, has never really been dealt with. First of all, I want to say that racism and discrimination are not the same thing. Discrimination emerges out or racism just as discrimination is an outgrowth of action relating to sexism, ageism, elitism, empiricism

First posted August 27, 2016. Enough is Enough! I am sick and tired about all the “political” attacks on Hillary. Let’s quit the political, as Geraldo would say, assholian, attacks on her and get down to the basic issues facing humankind, all creation and the planet right now, quit all this political gamesmanship and get something done. To me, when Hillary says that she “knows how to get things done,” this means that she has learned the rules and maneuvers of the sick, domina

First posted August 3, 2016. First, let me share with you the process I go through to realize I want to write a blog because I do not have a “blog urge” that often. Usually, this process starts with a very subtle, almost unnoticed “noticing.” That is how this blog started some time ago. It started with a noticing about Memorial Day – nothing big – just a little tickling in my brain. At first, I noticed that something had changed about Memorial Day. When I was a child, Memoria

First posted June 29, 2015. Can you believe that Bill O’Reilly actually said (I saw it! I heard it!) that – and I paraphrase – we no longer have a problem with racism in this country? He went on to say that there may be some (a few) deranged people who are racists and racism is no longer a systemic problem. Shouldn’t there be some kind of awareness or sanity test that is required if people are going to speak as “authorities” on television? Of course not! This is America and a

First posted January 5, 2015. Hi All, It was one of those days when I had so much to do I didn’t know where to start so I decided to do the unusual. I made myself a cup of tea, splashed with just a bit of stevia for a treat, kicked back in my favorite lounge chaise, put my feet up and decided to catch up on some mid-day news. I was a bit irritated that Ted Turner had pulled CNN out of the Dish Network system (I never did get the whole story on that one. I do wish those corpor

First posted September 2, 2014. Racism Revisited – Alive and Well I was recently asked by one of “my kids,” a sixteen-year-old high school student in Germany who had to do a term paper on Martin Luther King, to share my experience of that time with her. This is how I responded to her questions. I thought you might find it interesting. Dear Annika – I am on a plane taking off from Las Vegas. We have been out here meeting with a friend of mine whose cancer has returned and we a

First posted June 2, 2014. I promised to write more on this topic. Here it is. Last year, in honor of his 50th birthday and my 80th, Pete, my manager, and I were gifted with a seven-week boat trip on a Cunard ship. It went from Fort Lauderdale to Barbados (an island very dear to me), down the east coast of South America, around Cape Horn, up the west coast of South America, cruising by Rapa Nui (Easter Island), stopping at several ports-of-call in the South Pacific and endin

First posted June 2, 2014. I promised to write more on this topic. Here it is. Last year, in honor of his 50th birthday and my 80th, Pete, my manager, and I were gifted with a seven-week boat trip on a Cunard ship. It went from Fort Lauderdale to Barbados (an island very dear to me), down the east coast of South America, around Cape Horn, up the west coast of South America, cruising by Rapa Nui (Easter Island), stopping at several ports-of-call in the South Pacific and ending

First posted May 17, 2014. TWO FRIENDS WERE SENT TO JAIL TODAY FOR IN THE COURTS THERE WAS NO WAY FOR JUSTICE TO BE SERVED. Anne Wilson...