Gurumehar kaura,I am with you.please keep it up.
Christmas Eve Bitches
I had some kind of food poisoning and/or bad food reaction the other night, to some rare steak, and what followed was 24 hours of hell. Rather than go into details I will just leave you to imagine. Ha. But this morning is the most normal I’ve felt in several days, and—while I’m your classic overachiever mother of a young kid & wife—I’m still somehow able to let Christmas stress slip away this morning. Yeah I love Christmas. OMG I LOVE CHRISTMAS. But since I don’t have time to make presents these days, I kind of have to buy them, which is a financial stressor; since both our families are in town we have too many fun events to choose from and have to say no to more people than is fun; and since our kid is only two, and life has been kind of a big ol stress train…
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My Journey to the Humanist Service Corps
By Warren Alan Tidwell Humanist Service Corps Volunteer My Ghanaian teammate killed a spitting cobra on his farm today. He used only a stick. I don’t normally condone killing snakes in the wi…
Starting the Conversation: Speaking Out About Sexual Abuse
Recently the poet Annie Finch posted on her blog a piece called “Things I’ve Been Ashamed to Share About Being a Writer Until Now,” in which she gets specific about what men have …
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Why Won’t She Leave Him?
Don’t tell her what to do; talk to her and listen. Offer your help, but understand that to leave or not to leave is her decision. Respect it. And tell her you respect her. Acknowledge the pa…
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Why Won’t She Leave Him?
Marry Me: Gender Roles Assumptions in Ghana
By Wendy Webber Humanist Service Corps Ghana Co-Coordinator I can’t count the number of marriage proposals I’ve received since moving to Ghana. I’ve also had a number of people ask me to give them …
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Well, folks. Here I am, blogging because I’m pretty bored and I’m daydreaming about starting this new quilt. Have I blogged about this quilt yet? Hmm….appears that I mentioned i…
Who Killed Virginia Woolf? CW: suicide; ableism; sexual abuse
In response to Amanda Lauren and XOJane. This is what it means to be triggered by your ableist, thoughtless, cruel writing. This is what happens when people with mental illness and disability internalize ableism. This is how words become deadly.
Content warning: suicide; ableism; mental illness; abuse; caregiver abuse; psychiatric commitment; violence; dead bodies
If you are in suicide crisis, please call the National Suicide Hotline at 1 (800) 273-8255.
If you are a victim of sexual assault in crisis, please call RAINN at 800.656.HOPE (4673).
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The first time it happened, a stranger in Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City called me “the second coming.” He was pointing to a display of tote bags and t-shirts printed with Virginia Woolf’s portrait.
English novelist and critic Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941), 1902. (Photo by George C. Beresford/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
“That could be you,” he said.
He didn’t know I was a writer…
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The Silent Indian National Anthem
On the occasion of India’s 61st Republic Day in 2011, this silent rendition of India’s National Anthem, interpreted through the sign language and gestures, was created by the Mudra Grou…
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