One in the saddle, one on the ground
I’m no real stranger to protests. I’ve been going to them off and on since middle school, when I found myself in the thick of one on the Multnomah County Courthouse steps, watching my lesbian parents hastily marry (before the law was changed to annul it). This was my first real brush with the ugliness […]
Read More
…is a nice pipe dream. Before I get any further into this, one absolute statement: No one should ever be shot for speaking their truth. No one should be shot while trying to learn at school. No one should be shot or the victim of violence, full stop. But that’s a pipe dream world even […]
Read MoreThis post will be a bit of a conglomeration of background thoughts, things I ruminate over as I climb the hill to put Tarma back in her summer pasture, as I’m playing a random game on my phone as Tom drives us home from work, and when I’m trying not to think about all the […]
Read MoreEverything is moving too damn fast, and by the time I get my jumbled thoughts written down, edited, typed up, linked to other better sources and more coherent writings than mine, and finally posted…the event I had such strong thoughts about is way in the rearview, everyone has already moved on to the next Biggest […]
Read MoreWriting again for public consumption, take…8? I’ve lost track…
Read MoreBelow is the letter I wrote & emailed to the NYC Council members, before it was announces this morning they would not bw voting on the carriage horse ban bill in disguise. I have a lot more to say on this topic, but the industry has found a bit of breathing space in the Council’s […]
Read More
On the loose 