9/11 should be never politicized. It is, to me, a holy day. But we live in crazed times. Eighteen years later we have a new normal for ourselves and hopefully not for our country.
Hurricane Florence: The DNA Conundrum
When the Ancestry results came back I clicked and the world changed.
First Cut Is The Hardest Cut; So Not True
I wrote this post on July 29th, and put it in drafts as I have put over a thousand other posts. Today, this horrible Sunday, I decided that it deserves to be a blog post. I began Courting Destiny in August, 2004. For three or four years it was the technorati ranked #1 baby boomer blog, and was in the… View Post
Depression Comes Softly
‘m not a person to fall into depression. (Anxiety’s my thing). But I woke up this morning scared, well scared of so much. The personal, the country–it all falls into one basket. I remembered the day the country woke up to an after election when Al Gore should have won (it all hit the fan then–where we too stupid to… View Post
The Power Of Tomorrow
It was once thought that all adults with my disability, who weren’t treated for it as children, attempt death by their own hand, or gun, or…. Eleven years ago, sometime this week, I learned that I have a somewhat invisible disability called nonverbal learning disorder (NLD or NLVD; no idea why there are two different abbreviations). I did what I… View Post