Begin Again and Again and Again
The Ruff Draft is one thing, and it will continue to be, but I needed something different, something more honest, and even letting you know about it here scares me, but the cage of fear is simply too uncomfortable. I…
English Major Heretic
No institutional training required It’s a day ending in Y, so I am thinking about or starting a new website. Actually, in this case, it’s a new Substack, and this time, I’m asking others to join me. In short, I…
The Importance of Being Heard and Acknowledged
Yesterday I shared a few paragraphs from Alice Miller’s The Body Never Lies. Today you get different writers, but the focus is the same: the conflict between the unconscious mind and the conscious mind that threatens to break us. In What My…
The Nature of War
Nice try, Margaret, but not quite. War is what happens when the elites with the money and the power convince innocent people that they should be fighting other innocent people so the elites can get more money and power. What’s…
Out of Captivity
I feel like, after a lifetime behind bars, someone has opened the door of my cell (and yes, it was locked by others) and let me walk free. I turn to look back, and I finally get to see my…
Strange, Fragile Beasts
Relationships are strange, fragile beasts. They can wander, staying away for years at a time, then come back and go about their business as if they had just walked in the door after a trip to the store for a…
