WOMEN IN REVOLT WHY IT TAKES A WELL-DEFINED MONSTER TO PROVOKE MASS RESISTANCE   Women aren’t usually trouble-makers; they’re too busy being problem-solvers.   Women solve problems all the time–their own and others’– and at the end of every work day, and on weekends, their work doesn’t usually end; they just assume a different set…

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Powerful perverts reign in America today. Perhaps they always have, because we’ve allowed a white male patriarchal society up until now. It took hundreds of years for women to get the vote. It’s taking a helluva long time to learn to discern how to use it to our benefit. According to a recent survey, nearly…

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I used to take a modicum of pride in the levels of my resilience and forbearance. But the older I get, the less likely I seem able to shake off the dread that Make America Great Again (gag!) casts into the air nearly everywhere I look.   Here’s a prime example:   I went to…

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If it seems I’ve been two-timing you, it’s true. I’ve spent more time  over on my HireMe.WordWhisperer.net website and blog than I have here recently, I think.   That’s because I don’t often have a lot of topical information or insights for my professional copy/content/features-writing and editing blog. But two things came up recently that…

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I’ve been binge-watching The Waltons television series the past few days.   What I find nostalgic and endearing about The Waltons, Mister Rogers Neighborhood and (to a slightly lesser extent, see below) Little House on the Prairie is the inherent decency and respect that these series exhibited and exalted.   (Side note: Michael Landon appears to have had…

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Wanderlust has caught me, hook line and sinker…    My most lucid “some day” premonitions nearly always pan out.   When I was in grade school, my “some day” premonitions gave me an advance look at myself as an accomplished published author. And it came to pass.   When I was a teenager, my “some…

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I just googled Nostalgia Radio and downloaded 121 stations that tout themselves as such. Most of them, as it turns out, are music stations; a dozen or so are Christian stations; only 17 of them look even remotely like they might be interested in interviewing me about DeForest Kelley. All 17 have nostalgia-era entertainment shows…

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I don’t understand the GOP at all.   Or perhaps I understand the talking heads of the GOP (and their flunkies on Fox and Christian television and radio) only too well. It appears, now, many of them have been in bed with Russia, too, and they’re afraid if Trump gets investigated, they’ll be caught in…

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Edward, Lisa (LGBTQI allies) and I attended the Tacoma PRIDE Festival yesterday for a couple of hours until it got unbearably warm. It was a lot of fun, and I got some extra buttons, some rainbow and trans flags, and a red cape from the BECU booth that reads FREE TO BE. They were all…

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