It’s hard to navigate the current clouding of gender language. There are places where you can get in legal trouble for addressing someone with the wrong pronoun. It would be simpler if the thought police just outlawed pronouns altogether, wouldn’t it? But then there’d probably be people who’d label REFUSING to use any pronouns as … Continue reading
I write fiction. I am often asked (even by myself) where these ideas and characters come from. We are all different – what goes on in our minds, what we decide to let out. Each of us exerts a certain amount of control over our unbidden thoughts. Some people don’t have any (or are totally … Continue reading
Getting back to normal here in Dallas – at least as far as the weather goes. We’ve been above freezing now for over a week (hitting the 70’s again.) The groundhog has apparently rescinded his decree for us after that one frozen week. Some groceries disappeared from the shelves during that strange week. My one … Continue reading
You cannot force UNITY of thought, especially when facts are not only ignored, but forbidden. Continue reading
As John Adams said, our form of government was made for a moral people. If you are willing to lie under oath, what can be done about it? People throughout our country are sworn to uphold our Constitution, to protect the country from enemies both foreign and domestic. They swear their oaths, and all seems … Continue reading
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