The Monetary Damages of Enslavement and Racism — Editor’s Letter 💛 Greetings, Ah, the American Dream. Health, wealth, and happiness! Hotdogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet! Work hard, and you can be anything you want to be! Only if you’re white, though. In my last letter, I discussed how pretty much all of us white folks are racist on some level…

(Please keep reading because it really — really — matters!) — Editor’s Letter It’s been a hard few weeks since I last wrote here, y’all. Lots more shootings in America the beautiful, more bodies piling up, even as gun “rights” keep expanding (I guess when you’re dead you have no rights, so . . . ). More racial profiling. More laws against women…

Editor’s Letter There are two schools of thought about what a media story might represent: common or uncommon occurrences. As a general rule, they are anomalies, hence they make the news. When the story involves racism, it becomes more complicated. A case like Breonna Taylor’s is clearly a rarity, isn’t it? Surely…

Silence is what the fascists want. — The voices in my head are eerily quiet these days — not silent, but far too quiet. And to all my LGBTQ friends, I’m very sorry. I will work harder, do better. My Loved Ones As a creative with English degrees and decades in marketing, I have had tons of gay friends over…

Editor’s Letter, Our Human Family — My husband recently commented that Dilbert creator Scott Adams had publicly exposed himself as the racist he apparently is, and his cartoon was rapidly being dropped. …

A Uniquely American Haiku — Failure to thrive? Nah… It’s because we do well when Men wish us to fail

Some More Harmonious Than Others… — As a few of you might remember, I’ve volunteered periodically at a goat dairy farm for the past several years. It’s a bit of work feeding and lifting a hundred baby goats from one pen to another for hours at a time, but also incredibly rewarding. …

Love it! I hope more of the world comes to appreciate nature's bounty before we've used it up.

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