Are We Really Pretending to Celebrate Independence?
I always thought I would be dead long before democracy’s demise. I also believed I’d be gone before climate collapse. I was wrong on both counts. This Independence Day…
Happy Loss of Independence Day
This July 4th marks the fourth year that I will be boycotting America’s Independence Day. I wrote my first Independence Day post immediately following the fall of Roe. Without the…
Our Last Hope Is Our Vote
For years after the 2000 election, I wondered what life in the US would have been like if Al Gore hadn’t conceded to George W. Bush. Perhaps we wouldn’t be…
Even Fewer Get to Celebrate Independence Today
I haven’t written a blog post in a year. While there are many personal reasons for this, the biggest reason is that I have been so disgusted by the horrors…
Who gets to celebrate independence today?
I am not celebrating my country's independence today. The history of the United States horrifies me. The atrocities committed by ‘the greatest nation in the world,’ even before it was…
50 Years
After Friday’s Supreme Court ruling was released, I kept hearing the number 50. 50 years of legal precedent had been undone; a Constitutional right that we had for 50 years…
My Wish List for the New Administration
I haven’t blogged much in the last year--or four. I have plenty of excuses, including ongoing health challenges, Covid, and the implosion of democracy. Yet as dark as it seems,…
We Will Not Go Back
I often wonder how different my life would have been if the Equal Rights Amendment had been ratified instead of falling three states short in 1982. I bet I wouldn’t…
Where Do I Go From Here?
First came the shock. The stunned silence. The disbelief. Then came more anger and rage than I felt I was capable of holding within the confines of…
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Colorado Senators Kill National Award Winning Family Planning Program
Anyone who knows me is well aware that one of the easiest ways to make me angry is to politicize women’s health care. And the Colorado Senate State, Veterans and…