I woke up thinking about Frank Jude, Jr. whose assault I am nearly too young to remember in the news. I woke up thinking lynching attempt. I spent part of the day with remembered despair. At the march this week, nearly no one grabbed the signs that said Arrest Killer Cops; most marchers picked Black […]
Read more "Arresting the Police on Martin Luther King Jr. Day"This was originally published on another blog on July 25, 2011, but is no longer available online, so I’ve republished it for the PDXX Collective. For the month of November 2010, everyone walking by in Portland, Oregon got to watch Cristin Norine sleep, eat, blow her nose and read her email. The Public Isolation Project […]
Read more "The Public Isolation Project"For this profile, I would like to introduce you to my cousin and his wife, who advocate for children and individuals with epilepsy. Tim Vogus and his wife Jen Eiler Vogus are parents to Aidan, a sweet 12-year-old boy. Aidan has a rare genetic condition that had caused him to have daily intractable seizures that […]
Read more "Support for Children With Epilepsy"As a writing professor, I receive a lot of free grammar handbooks. Most of these, enumerate the rules of comma usage to a degree that even I find daunting. Most list at least eight rules. Several list over ten. One contains twenty-four rules for proper comma usage. Today, I will set the record straight for the […]
Read more "Three Comma Rules to Rule Them All"From the beginning of the pre-Christmas promo blitz launched by Fox, I vowed that I would not watch Empire. Partially due to the fact that I was trying to watch an episode of Sailor Moon on Hulu over the holiday, and the spotty wifi at my parent’s house kept crashing, and every time the show […]
Read more "How Empire Can Obliterate Smash’s Curse"to work in the mornings I walk the other direction past a sign commemorating Joshua Glover a runaway slave from St. Louis maybe near where Ferguson is now The Fugitive Slave Act imprisoned Joshua here in Milwaukee but protestors broke down the jail’s door so Joshua could get to Canada on the Underground Railroad …………………….Looking […]
Read more "The Agitators"This was originally published on another blog on July 27, 2011, but is no longer available online, so I’ve republished it for Visitant. “Who teaches us to be human?” asked Ursula Le Guin, the famed feminist speculative fiction author. “What to fear? What to love? Children learn genderless lessons from women, gendered from men. Fathers […]
Read more "Learning From Women At the 2010 Winter Fishtrap Gathering"It’s been a couple of months since my last post on PDXX — months (1? 2?) that have both flown by and dragged on like a train with wooden blocks stuck under its wheels. I had a double mastectomy on November 4, a preventative surgery I chose after finding out I have the BRCA mutation. The post below […]
Read more "Double Mastectomy Ins & Outs"I will never say, “I can’t write unless I have my special pen.” I will learn to write with earplugs in, cramped in the backseat of my car on my lunch break. I will not put off writing until I tidy my office, get the kids into college, or retire. I will learn how to […]
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