I know we were all taught as children not to call each other names and we know how much racism hurts us as a culture (or at least I hope those reading this blog do) but there as so many more ways we use labels in our lives that shut us off from groups, from information, and from individuals and if you are anything like me, it takes someone pointing it out every now and then for a real wake up call to happen in your life so change can begin to rebuild your way of interacting in the world.
What Would Sappho Say? Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!) As an insomniac, I started staying up later and later at night until it just became a part of my life. Now, even when a get a descent night’s sleep that starts at about 1 AM and goes until 8 AM or so. [...]
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!) For those of you out in the online dating world, I have come up with a little test to weed a bit of the undesirables from the beginning. Now, if you can’t pass the quiz, Houston, I’m afraid we might have a problem. So here it is [...]
© 2009 Sandra Jean-Pierre It came like turbulence from a butterfly’s wing. She barely realized it had been a kiss; if it were not for the mango and slight metallic woman taste left on her lips and in the air exhaled into her space, she would have just assumed it, this was all a dream. [...]
I can’t sleep tonight. I needed an outlet to get the thoughts out of my head… so I signed up and here it is. I recently went on a vacation with my wife for our one year wedding anniversary. The day we came back my mother fell, shattered her knee cap and our whole vacation [...]
