There comes a point where the romantic fantasies which often fuel the doomed liaisons we make — crash mightily on the shore of wtaf. I feel a sense of sadness and loss as I recognize how men seek out women — unconsciously, many times — to take up the burdensome…

I lost her to Alzheimer’s in 2014. She had her demons, even beginning in her 40s. But, man — when she in her 30s — I remember her! She had me when she was 29, after eight years of trying. She had been a 20 year-old model in Ft. …

(so very) Sorry For Your Loss The sudden death does not give you a chance to catch your breath. The resulting anger we often feel at this unexplained, unfair intrusion on our family’s closeness and joy is often astonishing to us, and to those around us. Until and unless one…

Objection Sustained Jesus. Now you see why health care is not preventive, why doctors do not make their money from anything except what needs to be done AFTER you have eaten poorly, not had access to anything health-promoting; why Big Pharma DEMANDS that you be tethered to ‘maintenance drugs’ the…

CODE RED Certain zip codes in each city are flagged as their owners being of “a certain age” where violations are most common because of the aging demographic and its attendant socio-economic status. The city also is aware of who has resources to keep up maintenance on landscaping, for example…

Interestingly — with all the changes in awareness and in legislation since the early 1970s — when I was majoring in the brand-new feminist studies program at what was then Colorado Women’s College in Denver — I believe many, many more women ARE feminist. By education or by default, there…

Sometimes the mob is not visibly raging, not violently destroying, in the ways we had come to readily identify in the last 200 years. The new-normal reign of terror may be mental and emotional, as all formerly solid cognitive ground dissolves. The “economic collapse” may be more of a gentle…