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A Standing Place for the Feet: March 2010
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A Standing Place for the Feet. Middle-aged womanhood; creativity; education; spirituality; reflections on a well traveled past; personal essays; peace activism; political commentary;. Sunday, March 28, 2010. 8220;It’s for you.” How could it possibly be for me? There was no reason I could think of except for really, really bad ones, why anyone would contact me at the lawyer’s office while I am in the middle of closing on my house. 8220;Did my buyer change her mind after the papers were signed? I doubt the...
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A Standing Place for the Feet: On My Dime
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A Standing Place for the Feet. Middle-aged womanhood; creativity; education; spirituality; reflections on a well traveled past; personal essays; peace activism; political commentary;. Wednesday, May 18, 2011. Bernie Sanders has done us a great favor by publishing the list of the top ten corporate Welfare Queens. And none of them are driving up to the supermarket in cadillacs – they are sending their personal shoppers to Washington to bring home the cash. Is there anywhere I am willing to send my money?
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A Standing Place for the Feet: December 2009
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A Standing Place for the Feet. Middle-aged womanhood; creativity; education; spirituality; reflections on a well traveled past; personal essays; peace activism; political commentary;. Sunday, December 6, 2009. Small Matters of Life and Death: An American Euphemism. The American Euphemism is an unnoticed art form except of course if, like me, you hail from a part of the world where blunt speech, unfettered sarcasm, and the art of the clever put down is as much practiced as the American Euphemism(AE).
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A Standing Place for the Feet: October 2010
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A Standing Place for the Feet. Middle-aged womanhood; creativity; education; spirituality; reflections on a well traveled past; personal essays; peace activism; political commentary;. Saturday, October 23, 2010. Requiem for a Butterfly. It’s the fourth generation that knows the way. To the Oyamel forests of Mexico. Buoyed by instinct, air currents, the sun and. The magnetic poles of the Earth. It’s the fourth generation. That lives three to four times longer. As long as the milkweed lasts. A gun is raised.
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A Standing Place for the Feet: April 2011
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A Standing Place for the Feet. Middle-aged womanhood; creativity; education; spirituality; reflections on a well traveled past; personal essays; peace activism; political commentary;. Sunday, April 3, 2011. I don’t want to go to Libya. It's 1979 and we are still recovering from the evacuation of Iran in the midst of the revolution. My first stony act of rebellion takes place 20,000 feet in the air. The entry form for admission to Libya is a full page long and we are expected to fill in every gap. The bal...
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A Standing Place for the Feet: January 2011
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A Standing Place for the Feet. Middle-aged womanhood; creativity; education; spirituality; reflections on a well traveled past; personal essays; peace activism; political commentary;. Saturday, January 22, 2011. My friend Kathy drives a bright red Toyota Camry. She looks like your average middle aged, middle class American woman. Kathy doesn’t scare easily; her response to her fear of flying was to earn her pilot’s license. She graduated top of her class. They seem reasonable once the story is known.
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A Standing Place for the Feet: August 2012
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A Standing Place for the Feet. Middle-aged womanhood; creativity; education; spirituality; reflections on a well traveled past; personal essays; peace activism; political commentary;. Sunday, August 26, 2012. Women on a Beach. WOMEN ON A BEACH. Light chooses white sails, the bellies of gulls.
. Far away in a boat, someone wears a red shirt,
. A tiny stab in the pale sky.
. Your three bodies form a curving shoreline,
. Pink and brown sweaters, bare legs.
. Air the colour of tangerines.
. I want us to b...
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A Standing Place for the Feet: Women on a Beach
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A Standing Place for the Feet. Middle-aged womanhood; creativity; education; spirituality; reflections on a well traveled past; personal essays; peace activism; political commentary;. Sunday, August 26, 2012. Women on a Beach. WOMEN ON A BEACH. Light chooses white sails, the bellies of gulls.
. Far away in a boat, someone wears a red shirt,
. A tiny stab in the pale sky.
. Your three bodies form a curving shoreline,
. Pink and brown sweaters, bare legs.
. Air the colour of tangerines.
. I want us to b...
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A Standing Place for the Feet: May 2011
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A Standing Place for the Feet. Middle-aged womanhood; creativity; education; spirituality; reflections on a well traveled past; personal essays; peace activism; political commentary;. Wednesday, May 18, 2011. Bernie Sanders has done us a great favor by publishing the list of the top ten corporate Welfare Queens. And none of them are driving up to the supermarket in cadillacs – they are sending their personal shoppers to Washington to bring home the cash. Is there anywhere I am willing to send my money?
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A Standing Place for the Feet: January 2010
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A Standing Place for the Feet. Middle-aged womanhood; creativity; education; spirituality; reflections on a well traveled past; personal essays; peace activism; political commentary;. Sunday, January 31, 2010. Dunking the Scum Bags. Who on earth listens to these two? Who provides financial support to these two? William Rivers Pitt (see. So how do they remain on the air? Limbaugh is now reported to be one of the highest paid commentators on the air. He owns the majority holding of his show that airs c...
