I found a letter written decades ago by my grandmother in her youth (click on photo for larger version). It referred to poppies and fallen soldiers of War War One.
“I have tried to illustrate in my poppy poster the need for all American citizens to help the disabled war veterans. And I sincerely hope that […]
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Bloggers Unite for Human Rights. Today is the day, and I have no grand agenda, no brilliant insights into how to cause world peace, feed the hungry, and stop President Bush from trampling over our constitution and torturing and enslaving anybody he wants. No ideas.
But closer to home, I am happy. I am thrilled that […]
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The third bedroom of my townhouse was a den, but when I bought a laptop, it turned into a storage room. We are now turning it into the “lounge,” which will house an LCD TV and our XBox360 and Wii and DVD player. I came to this decision after realizing that my living room would […]
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Many Mormons are fond of considering themselves a “peculiar people.” A title of honor some would say. Others outside of the faith see some of the rituals they perform as certainly peculiar.
One peculiar Mormon ritual is “Baptism for the Dead.” I actually did this a time or two growing up in Vegas. A youth group […]
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I am Sterkworks. Sterk from the Dutch word Strong. Dutch because so far, the Netherlands is my favorite country I have visited. Works because added to Sterk, the URL was available.
I am a lesbian. But I never have sex, as I have spent years being a mother first, then an employee, then me. I am […]
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So the residents of the island of Lesbos don’t want anybody not of that island to call themselves Lesbians. A little too late, you Lesbos you. You should have thought of that in about 570BCE when Sappho died. ‘Cause it only went uphill from there.
I did think of a couple of things we could call […]
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