Dear Candidate Romney ~ From A Woman Of The 47%
Dear Candidate Romney, I saw you. I saw your video. I saw you speaking candidly and off the cuff about me. Don’t get me wrong, I know that you didn’t mention me by name or anything, but we both know...
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Yesterday I posted this image that my sister, Laura and I created together. This morning I was looking at the comments on that post as it was shared around Facebook. I saw that one man said this,...
View ArticleClimate Change And The Keystone Pipline Debate
This one is for the people who say they don’t believe in global warming, or climate change, or whatever the current jargon is for the catastrophic disaster looming in our future. It doesn’t...
View ArticleHunger In America: The Spaghetti Data
Ten years ago, I was so hungry that I stole a pound of hamburger from a neighbor’s freezer. It was humiliating and the only time I ever stole. Later that week, I went to a food bank for the first time....
View ArticleHomelessness: No Place For Children
In my writing today I am going to step outside my comfort zone. Usually I write about my own experiences and I stick to that. Today I would like to talk somebody else’s story and how it relates to a...
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